1908, 2015

Anthropology and Sociology – December 2013 to July 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 19, 2015|Anthropology and Sociology|

Anthropomorphism Thinking with animals : new perspectives on anthropomorphism / edited by Lorraine Daston and Gregg Mitman. Art & Artefacts Making and growing : anthropological studies of organisms and artefacts / by Elizabeth Hallam and Tim Ingold. Australasia The Black pacific : anti-colonial struggles and oceanic connections / Robbie Shilliam. Community Community, cosmopolitanism and the problem of human commonality / Vered Amit and Nigel Rapport. East Asia Seeing transnationally :

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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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0703, 2014

South Asia – January 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 7, 2014|South Asia|0 comments

Metallic modern: everyday machines in colonial Sri Lanka / Nira Wickramasinghe. The Tamils in India, Ceylon and Malaya / by R. Visvanathan P. J. K. Indian Ocean slavery in the age of abolition / edited by Robert Harms, Bernard K. Freamon and David W. Blight. Anglicanism and South India / by Leonard Hodgson. Breaking the bow : speculative fiction inspired by the Ramayana / edited by Anil Menon, Vandana Singh

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0603, 2014

History – February 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 6, 2014|History|0 comments

General & Comparative A cultural history of the human body / [general editors, Linda Kalof and William Bynum]. The encyclopedia of global human migration / edited by Immanuel Ness. Africa Orán-Mazalquivir, 1589-1639: una sociedad española en la frontera de Berbería / Beatriz Alonso Acero.  Where the Negroes are masters: an African port in the era of the slave trade / Randy J. Sparks. The ancient Red Sea port of Adulis

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0503, 2013

Development Studies – January and February 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 5, 2013|Development Studies|0 comments

Every nation for itself : winners and losers in a G-Zero world / Ian Bremmer. Crisis, capital flows and FDI in emerging Asia / Ramkishen S. Rajan with Sasidaran Gopalan, Rabin Hattari. From iron rice bowl to informalization: markets, workers, and the state in a changing China / [edited by] Sarosh Kuruvilla, Ching Kwan Lee, and Mary E. Gallagher.[Available as an e-book via ebrary] Modalities of change : the interface

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1309, 2012

Africa – August 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|September 13, 2012|Africa|0 comments

African literature : gender discourse, religious values, and the African worldview / Safoura Salami-Boukari. AMAL : shelter for the poor in Khartoum, Sudan / [research, Ding Wowo ; editors, Ding Wowo, Carol McEowen, Zhao Chen.] Anglo-Zulu War, 1879 : a selected bibliography / Harold E. Raugh, Jr. Architecture and tourism in Italian colonial Libya : an ambivalent modernism / by Brian L. McLaren.  Belgium and the Congo, 1885-1980 / Guy

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2808, 2012

Anthropology & Sociology – August 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 28, 2012|Anthropology and Sociology|0 comments

All tomorrow’s cultures : anthropological engagements with the future / Samuel Gerald Collins. Anthropologists, indigenous scholars and the research endeavour : seeking bridges towards mutual respect / edited by Joy Hendry and Laara Fitznor. Being there : learning to live cross-culturally / edited by Sarah H. Davis and Melvin Konner. Contemporary sociological theory / edited by Craig Calhoun … [et al.]. 3rd Edition The creolization of theory / edited by

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1506, 2012

Africa – May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 15, 2012|Africa|0 comments

Men in African film & fiction / edited by Lahoucine Ouzgane. History of the Igala Kingdom c.1534-1854 : a study of political and cultural integration in the Niger-Benue confluence area of Nigeria / Joseph N. Ukwedeh. African theatre. 9, Histories 1850-1950 / editor, Yvette Hutchison.. Africa in the American imagination : popular culture, racialized identities, and African visual culture / Carol Magee. The developmental challenges of mining and oil :

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