1905, 2016

Alchemy 2016 Festival- South Asian Culture at its Best!

By Farzana Whitfield|May 19, 2016|Art and Archaeology, Films and Sound Recordings, Music, Media and Film Studies, Photography, South Asia|0 comments

Courtesy of Alchemy Festival 2016 webpage I cannot praise this event enough, it is fun, colourful, vibrant and cultured! Each year, Alchemy fills Southbank Centre with a vibrant array of performances, workshops and exhibitions – and a delicious food market. The festival celebrates the rich cultural relationship between the UK and the Indian subcontinent, and explores the creative influences generated by our shared history. In 2016, the seventh Alchemy brings

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2705, 2015

Anthropology and Sociology – Spring 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 27, 2015|Anthropology and Sociology|0 comments

Anthropology in theory: issues in epistemology / edited by Henrietta L. Moore and Todd Sanders Ruth Landes: a life in anthropology / Sally Cole The other face of the moon / by Lévi-Strauss, Claude The ground between: anthropologists engage philosophy / edited by Veena Das, Michael Jackson, Arthur Kleinman, and Bhrigupati Singh Ethnographies of uncertainty in Africa / edited by Elizabeth Cooper and David Pratten After the ancestors: an anthropologist’s

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0701, 2014

Anthropology and Sociology – June 2012 to November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 7, 2014|Anthropology and Sociology|0 comments

Handbook of land and water grabs in Africa : foreign direct investment and food and water security / editors, Tony Allan … [et al.]. The global farms race : land grabs, agricultural investment, and the scramble for food security / edited by Michael Kugelman, Susan L. Levenstein. Darker than blue : on the moral economies of Black Atlantic culture / Paul Gilroy. Gender, war, and militarism : feminist perspectives /

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1312, 2013

Anthropology and Sociology – August to November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 13, 2013|Anthropology and Sociology|0 comments

An anthropology of images : picture, medium, body / Hans Belting ; translated by Thomas Dunlap. Carnival and cannibal ; Ventriloquous evil / by Jean Baudrillard ; translated by Chris Turner. The spirit of mourning : history, memory and the body / by Paul Connerton. Material memories / by edited by Marius Kwint, Christopher Breward and Jeremy Aysnley. From Berg’s Materializing culture series…“This book is an attempt to understand the

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1209, 2013

Essential research…. Why Szechuan Peppers Make Your Lips Go Numb

By David Pearson|September 12, 2013|China and Inner Asia, Unknown|0 comments

Photo by Flickr user diwineanddine (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) I don’t usually post science research, but as these pepper corns are so emblematic of Szechuan cuisine, I thought I would this time. While we don’t have a subscription to the most recent copies of Proceedings of the Royal Society B in which this research was published, you can read about it here on the Smithsonian’s blog.

2905, 2013

Anthropology and Sociology – April 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 29, 2013|Anthropology and Sociology|0 comments

Frontiers and boundaries, encounters on China’s margins / edited by Zsombor Rajkai and Ildikó Bellér-Hann. Explores processes of drawing, maintaining and transgressing spatial and conceptual boundaries on the margins of imperial and modern China. Imaging and imagining Taiwan : identity representation and cultural politics / edited by Bi-yu Chang and Henning Klöter. Read an abstract of this work. Co-written by a SOAS academic. Searching for Zion / Emily Raboteau Documents

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0404, 2013

The Asia House Festival of Asian Literature 7-22 May, 2013

By Farzana Whitfield|April 4, 2013|China and Inner Asia, Japan, Korea, Literature, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, South Asia, South East Asia|0 comments

Image taken from Asia House website: http://asiahouse.org/ Now in its seventh year, the Asia House Festival of Asian Literature is the only UK festival dedicated to writing about Asia and Asians, from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Pacific. This year they have widened the remit to include Turkey and parts of the Middle East. The 2013 Festival will feature authors writing about over 15 countries, including Afghanistan, Burma, China, India, Iran, Iraq,

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1506, 2012

Anthropology and Sociology – May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 15, 2012|Anthropology and Sociology|0 comments

Anthropological practice : fieldwork and the ethnographic method. / Judith Okely From global poverty to global equality : a philosophical exploration / Pablo Gilabert. Connected, or, What it means to live in the network society / Steven Shaviro. The inside text : social, cultural and design perspectives on SMS / ed. by R. Harper, L. Palen and A. Taylor. The rise of anthropological theory : a history of theories of

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3004, 2012

Anthropology and Sociology – April 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 30, 2012|Anthropology and Sociology|0 comments

Together : the rituals, pleasures and politics of co-operation / Richard Sennett. Differentiating development : beyond an anthropology of critique / edited by Soumhya Venkatesan and Thomas Yarrow. The state and the social : state formation in Botswana and its pre-colonial and colonial genealogies / Ørnulf Gulbrandsen. Ethnographic practice in the present / edited by Marit Melhuus [et al.]. Serendipity in anthropological research : the nomadic turn / by Haim

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