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 /

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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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1301, 2014

Who Owns Antiquity? Museums, Repatriation, and Armed Conflict

By Mary Fisk|January 13, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Archival collections, Art and Archaeology, History|0 comments

Brian Rose (Penn State University) gave a lecture at Stanford Humanities Center on 4October 2013: “Who Owns Antiquity? Museums, Repatriation, and Armed Conflict“. The video of that lecture is now posted online: <http://www.stanford.edu/dept/classics/cgi-bin/web/node/4879> It is posted on Apple’s iTunes (about an hour): <https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/who-owns-antiquity-museums/id385665061?i=194306743&mt=2>. (notice posted on the Agade mailing list by A.J. Cave on 10th January 2014)

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 /

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2210, 2013

Hazine: a new website to assist research in the Middle East

By Mary Fisk|October 22, 2013|Archival collections, History, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica|0 comments

  Holy Koran cover (16th century) from the Topkapi Palace Collections Image from Ahmet Karahisari on Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ahmet_Karahisari_001.jpg HAZINE is a new website “dedicated to helping scholars conduct research in the Middle East and beyond”. It focuses on practical advice on how to access and use archives, manuscript libraries and other relevant collections in the “greater Islamic world”. The site is launched with features on four major archives in Istanbul – the

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0910, 2013

History – September 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|October 9, 2013|History|0 comments

e-books The rise of fiscal states: a global history, 1500-1914 / edited by Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla, Patrick K. O’Brien ; with Franciso Comín Comín. [e-book from Dawsonera] Akbar / André Wink [e-book fro Dawsonera] The Crusades: a very short introduction / Christopher Tyerman [e-book from ebrary] Western imperialism in the Middle East 1914-1958 / D.K. Fieldhouse. [e-book from ebrary] Books Empire, global coloniality and African subjectivity / Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni. Homer’s Turk: how classics

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2604, 2013

The Digital Public Library of America Launches Today, Opening Up Knowledge for All

By Farzana Whitfield|April 26, 2013|Unknown|0 comments

A group of top American libraries and academic institutions launched a new centralized research resource today, The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), making millions of resources (books, images, audiovisual resources, etc.) available in digital format. It is an open, distributed network of comprehensive online resources that draws on the nation’s living heritage from libraries, universities, archives, and museums in order to educate, inform, and empower everyone in the current and

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1708, 2012

Art and Archaeology – June to August 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 17, 2012|Art and Archaeology|0 comments

Cross-disciplinary perspectives on a contested Buddhist site : Bodhgaya jataka / [edited by] David Geary, Matthew R. Sayers, Abhishek Singh Amar. Orchha and beyond : design at the court of Raja Bir Singh Dev Bundela / Edward Leland Rothfarb. The Mucukunda murals in the Tyāgarājasvāmi temple, Tiruvārūr / V.K. Rajamani and David Shulman. The poetry of sculpture / Wu Weishan. Museums and biographies : stories, objects, identities / edited by

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