Religions – August 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|September 5, 2012|Religions|0 comments

e-books e-books are available to SOAS staff and students only, on or off-campus. Sinister yogis / David Gordon White – ebrary The origins of yoga and tantra : Indic religions to the thirteenth century / Geoffrey Samuel – Dawsonera Yoga body: the origins of modern posture practice / Mark Singleton – Dawsonera Introducing world Christianity / edited by Charles E. Farhadian – Dawsonera Endings: a sociology of death and dying / Michael C. Kearl. – Dawsonera

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Development Studies – August 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|September 4, 2012|Development Studies|0 comments

E-Books Borderlines and Borderlands: Political oddities at at the edge of the nation state/ edited by Alexander C. Diener and Joshua City out of chaos : urban self-organization and sustainability / Riccardo M. Pulselli & Enzo Tiezzi Coming climate crisis? consider the past, beware the big fix / Claire L. Parkinson Environmental sociology / John Hannigan Ethics for disaster/ Naomi Zack The Politics of Indigeneity: Dialogues and Reflections on Indigenous

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Religion – January to August 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 19, 2012|Religion|0 comments

Journals Fieldwork in Religion [Equinox Journals] Volume 1(2005) onwards. Books Sectarian conflict in Egypt : Coptic media, identity, and representation / Elizabeth Iskander. Contemporary theories of religion : a critical companion / edited by Michael Stausberg. [Also available as an e-book via Dawsonera, Available to SOAS staff & students only] Miaphysite Christology : an Ethiopian perspective / by Mebratu Kiros Gebru. Approaching the Holy Mountain : art and liturgy at St.

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Politics and International Relations – June 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 28, 2012|Politics and International Relations|0 comments

The origins of political order : from prehuman times to the French Revolution / Francis Fukuyama Human rights and conflict : exploring the links between rights, law and peacebuilding / edited by Julie Mertus and Jeffrey W. Helsing. Judges beyond politics in democracy and dictatorship : lessons from Chile / Elisabeth Hilbink. The politics of memory : transitional justice in democratizing societies / edited by Alexandra Barahona de Brito, Carmen

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Middle East and Central Asia – May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 20, 2012|Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica|0 comments

Islam Dreams and visions in Islamic societies / edited by Özgen Felek and Alexander D. Knysh. Islam, Christianity and the mystic journey : a comparative exploration / Ian Richard Netton. The Qurʼān in context : historical and literary investigations into the Qurʼānic milieu / edited by Angelika Neuwirth, Nicolai Sinai, Michael Marx. Young British Muslims : identity, culture, politics and the media / Nahid Afrose Kabir. Constructing a religiously ideal

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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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Africa – April 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 30, 2012|Africa|0 comments

The cash dividend : the rise of cash transfer programs in Sub-Saharan Africa / Marito Garcia and Charity M. T. Moore. Prisoners of Prester John : the Portuguese mission to Ethiopia in search of the mythical king, 1520-1526 / Cates Baldridge. Gender and power in Sierra Leone : women chiefs of the last two centuries / by Lynda Day. The state and the social : state formation in Botswana and

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