2608, 2015

Africa – December 2013 to July 2015.

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 26, 2015|Africa|

Africa Business & Industry The politics of African industrial policy : a comparative perspective / Lindsay Whitfield Film & Media Identity in postmillennial German film narratives on Africa / Shikuku Emmanuel Tsikhungu. Images of Africa : Creation, negotiation and subversion / Julia Gallagher. Through African eyes / editors, Mahen Bonetti and Prerana Reddy. History Understanding Africa / E. Jefferson Murphy ; illustrated by Louise E. Jefferson. Literature Mysteries of Africa

0306, 2015

A Trial Access to E-Journal Database for Burma/Myanmar Studies

By Jotika Khur-Yearn|June 3, 2015|Anthropology and Sociology, Art and Archaeology, History, Linguistics, Literature, Philosophy, Religions, South East Asia|0 comments

We now have a trial access to the online version of the Rare Journals of the Burma Research Society until the 2nd of July 2015. There are two options for you to access the online database: The link for on-campus access: http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/ (no login required, when you are in SOAS buildings using SOAS Internet) The link for off-campus access: https://ezproxy.soas.ac.uk/login?url=http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/ (login required with your normal SOAS Login) Note: external members

1109, 2013

Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica – July 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|September 11, 2013|Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica|0 comments

Islam Christian Muslim relations : a bibliographical history / edited by David Thomas, Barbara Roggema and Alexander Mallett with Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala … [et al.]. Studies in medieval Shi’ism / Wilferd Madelung edited by Sabine Schmidtke. Studies on Sufism in Central Asia / Devin DeWeese. The dynamics of Sunni-Shia relationships : doctrine, transnationalism, intellectuals and the media / edited by Brigitte Maréchal and Sami Zemni. Hizbullah’s identity construction / Joseph

1303, 2013

Introducing “Faiz-e-Zabaan” for lovers of Urdu Literature and Language

By Farzana Whitfield|March 13, 2013|Linguistics, Literature, South Asia|0 comments

Faiz-e-Zabaan is a project focusing on Urdu literature and language (inscribed in homage to one of South Asia’s most famous Urdu poets, scholar and left-wing activists- Faiz Ahmad Faiz). The inititiative for using ‘Faiz’ which means grace aims at sharing this grace of language with students and scholars of Urdu. One of the main and ongoing projects is called the “Media Catalogue”. The project looks for Urdu language and literature related news/articles/columns from

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

2908, 2012

Linguistics – August 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 29, 2012|Linguistics|0 comments

Applied cultural linguistics : implications for second language learning and intercultural communication; [… theme session … which was part of the 8th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference held at the University of Logroño, La Rioja, Spain, July 20 – 25, 2003] / ed. by Farzad Sharifian … The anthropology of language : an introduction to linguistic anthropology / Harriet Joseph Ottenheimer. 3rd Edition. The Blackwell guide to research methods in bilingualism

0607, 2012

Religions – June 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 6, 2012|Religions|0 comments

About religion: economies of faith in virtual culture / Mark C. Taylor Modern American popular religion: a critical assessment and annotated bibliography / Charles H. Lippy. Egypt 1350 BC – AD 1800: art historical and archaeological studies for Gawdat Gabra / Marianne Eaton-Krauss, Cäcilia Fluck, and Gertrude J.M. van Loon (eds.). Ideas of Man in the conceptions of the religions = Das Menschenbild in den Konzeptionen der Religionen / (edited by) Tarmo Kulmar,

0706, 2012

Korea – June 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 7, 2012|Korea|0 comments

Media and democratic transition in South Korea / Ki-Sung Kwak. The languages of Japan and Korea / edited by Nicolas Tranter. 예쁜여자만들기 : 미인강박의문화사, 한국에서미인은어떻게만들어졌는가 / 이영아지음 한국민주주의의제도화 / 정상호지음 한국의보수와수구 : 이념의역사 / 이나미 한국 민족주의 와 변혁적 이념 체계 / 금 인숙, 문 상석, 전 상숙 통일한국브랜딩 : 마케팅의눈으로본한반도브랜딩전략서 / 전병길, 박일수 근현대 한일 관계 의 제 문제 / 동북아 역사 재단 편 청년층노동시장진입및정착방안연구 / 남재량 그들이아닌우리를위한복지 :

2305, 2012

Linguistics – Jan to May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 23, 2012|Linguistics|0 comments

Books Eish, but is it English? : celebrating the South African variety / Rajend Mesthrie with Jeanne Hromnik. Paradigm shift in language planning and policy : game-theoretic solutions / by Ettien Koffi. Theories of case / Miriam Butt. Prototypical transitivity / Åshild Næss. Differential subject marking / ed. by Helen de Hoop and Peter de Swart. Can these bones live? : translation, survival, and cultural memory / Bella Brodzki. Varieties

3004, 2012

Japan – April 2012

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

The face of Jizō : image and cult in medieval Japanese Buddhism / Hank Glassman. Bonds of the dead : temples, burial, and the transformation of contemporary Japanese Buddhism / Mark Michael Rowe Japan’s shrinking regions in the 21st century / Peter Matanle and Anthony S. Rausch with the Shrinking Regions Research Group. Passionate friendship : the aesthetics of girls’ culture in Japan / Deborah Shamoon. The Okinawan diaspora in

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