0208, 2013

SADAAC- Arts and Crafts of South Asia

By Farzana Whitfield|August 2, 2013|Art and Archaeology, South Asia|0 comments

  Image taken from the SADAAC website The South Asian Decorative Arts and Crafts Trust (SADAAC) in Norwich is a wonderful Aladdin’s cave of arts and crafts mainly from India and Pakistan while other collections cover Burma, Indonesia and Thailand. I fell complelety in love with this cultural trust! Established in 2010, SADAAC forms part of the University of East Anglia through the Sainsbury Institute of Art. The collection includes, textiles, ethnographic items, paintings,

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1604, 2013

Round-up of the latest news from ELDIS

By Farzana Whitfield|April 16, 2013|Development Studies|0 comments

Catch up on the latest news from Eldis, the great knowledge platform for Development Studies related research. You can catch up on the Open Knowledge Festival that took place in Helsinki last September, latest reports, reviews and research papers, including guides and research collections. Check out the link below now! http://www.eldis.org/go/latest-news#.UW1b_mG8Csq

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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