1108, 2015

South Asia – December 2013 to July 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 11, 2015|South Asia|

Art, Archaeology and Architecture Excavations at Kanaganahalli (Sannati), Taluk Chitapur, Dist. Gulbarga, Karnataka / K.P. Poonacha. The hermit’s hut : architecture and asceticism in India / Kazi K. Ashraf. Late temple architecture in India 15th to 19th centuries : continuities, revivals, appropriations, and innovations / George Michell. Nalanda : situating the great monastery / Frederick M. Asher. No touching, no spitting, no praying : the museum in South Asia /

Read More

0303, 2014

Religions – December 2013 and January 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 3, 2014|Religions|0 comments

General & Comparative Bible and cinema: an introduction / Adele Reinhartz. Thin description: ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem / John L. Jackson, Jr. First light: a history of creation myths from Gilgamesh to the God particle / G.R. Evans.  Anatheism: returning to God after God / Richard Kearney. The dynamics of coexistence in the Middle East: negotiating boundaries between Christians, Muslims, Jews and Samaritans in Palestine /

Read More

0901, 2014

Art and Archaeology – September 2012 to May 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 9, 2014|Art and Archaeology|0 comments

A great court painter of 18th-century Korean : the art of Kim Hong-do / Oh Ju-seok ; [translated by Lim Seon-young, Yang Ji-hyun ; revised by Mark S. Turnoy]. Archives, museums and collecting practices in the modern Arab world / [edited] by Sonja Mejcher-Atassi and John Pedro Schwartz. Archaeological theory today / edited by Ian Hodder. Embellished reality : Indian painted photographs : towards a transcultural history of photography /

Read More

0708, 2013

South Asia – July 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 7, 2013|South Asia|0 comments

Political thought in action : the Bhagavad Gita and modern India / edited by Shruti Kapila, Faisal Devji. Religious cultures in early modern India : new perspectives / edited by Rosalind O’Hanlon and David Washbrook. The magic of Bollywood : at home and abroad / edited by Anjali Gera Roy. Adi Parva : churning of the ocean / Amruta Patil. Indian diaspora in the Caribbean / [editor], Kumar Mahabir. Understanding

Read More

3107, 2013

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – July 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 31, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern civilizations Excavations at Tel Beth-Shean, 1989-1996 (Vol. 3 & Vol.4) Ebla and its landscape / edited by Paolo Malthiae & Nicolò Marchetti  Aspetti del sistema preposizionale dell’eblaita / Maria Vittoria Tonietti. The world of the Neo-Hittite kingdoms: a political and military history / Trevor Bryce. Linguistics studies in Phoenician: in memory of J. Brian Peckham / edited by Robert D. Holmstedt and Aaron Schade. The elements of

Read More

0803, 2013

South Asia – January and February 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 8, 2013|South Asia|0 comments

Gujarati communities across the globe : memory, identity and continuity / edited by Sharmina Mawani and Anjoom Mukadam. Bamboo : the wonderful grass / by G.K. Ghosh. Dalits and environment : a critical analysis / D.V. Rao, P. Lakshmi. Narrative noodles : essays on Indian novels in English / C.L. Khatri. A report on the preservation of Buddhist monuments at Bamiyan in Afghanistan / by B.B. Lal and R. Sengupta ; edited

Read More

1412, 2012

South Asia – November 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 14, 2012|South Asia|0 comments

Ancient Indian influence on Japanese culture : a comparative study of civilizations / Yoshihiro Kaburagi. Abibhakta Bāṃlāra kr̥shaka saṃgrāma / Susnāta Dāśa South Asian texts in history : critical engagements with Sheldon Pollock / edited by Yigal Bronner, Whitney Cox, and Lawrence McCrea. Nepal : nation-state in the wilderness : managing state, democracy, and geopolitics / by Lok Raj Baral. Partition of India : why 1947? / edited by Kaushik

Read More

0409, 2012

South Asia – August 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|September 4, 2012|South Asia|0 comments

Devadattīyam : Johannes Bronkhorst felicitation volume / François Voegeli et al. Political economy of communications in India : the good, the bad and the ugly / Pradip Ninan Thomas. Migration, remittances, and development in South Asia / edited by Saman Kelegama. Pilgrimage in the Hindu tradition : salvific space / Knut A. Jacobsen. Where there is no midwife : birth and loss in rural India / Sarah Pinto. [Also available

Read More

1906, 2012

South Asia – May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 19, 2012|South Asia|0 comments

Sambandha / Rājendra ‘Rājeśa’. 1857, Narahatạ kī vīrān̐ganā / Vinoda Kumara Śrīvāstava. Patthara galī : [kahānī-saṅgraha] / Nāsirā Śarmā. Mahākavikālidāsaviracitam, Abhijñānaśākuntalam : Prabhopetam / sampādaka, samīkshaka evaṃ vyākhyākāra, Śivabālaka Dvivedī, Ratnā Tivārī, Pratyushavatsalā Divedī. Nirālā kā kāvya rāga se vidroha taka / Avadheśa Kumāra. Muṃśī Premacanda aura Dalita samāja : rāshtṛīya bahasa ke āīne meṃ vivecanā / Ratnakumāra Sāmbhariyā. Āja ke g̲ẖama ke nāma / Faiza Ahamada Faiza ; sampādaka,

Read More