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Beyond violence: Commodity, nature and the expansion of a global market in late imperial south-eastern Mongolia (2022)
Thesis
Shan, S. Beyond violence: Commodity, nature and the expansion of a global market in late imperial south-eastern Mongolia. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

In the winter of 1891, a bloody storm swept the south-eastern region of Mongolia, which had provided a home for Mongols, Manchus and Han Chinese over the preceding two centuries. Followers of heterodox sects attacked local Mongol settlements and Chri... Read More about Beyond violence: Commodity, nature and the expansion of a global market in late imperial south-eastern Mongolia.

Cosmic Households and Primordial Creativity: Worlding the World with (and as) Devī in a Contemporary Indian Śrīvidyā Tradition (2022)
Thesis
Hirmer, M. Cosmic Households and Primordial Creativity: Worlding the World with (and as) Devī in a Contemporary Indian Śrīvidyā Tradition. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Mostly focusing on ancient texts, Tantric studies reflect (and perpetuate) the notion that Tantric traditions are largely extinct, or practiced in utter secrecy. By looking at Śaktipur’s contemporary Śrīvidyā tradition, I provide new insights from an... Read More about Cosmic Households and Primordial Creativity: Worlding the World with (and as) Devī in a Contemporary Indian Śrīvidyā Tradition.

War People: A Cultural History of Violence among the Fante Asafo (2022)
Thesis
Jeffreys, E. War People: A Cultural History of Violence among the Fante Asafo. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis examines the asafo company system, a paramilitary organisation indigenous to the Fante-speaking communities of the Gold Coast, now south-central Ghana. The asafo emerged to protect coastal towns from external threats in a period of politi... Read More about War People: A Cultural History of Violence among the Fante Asafo.

Individuality and Identity in Cuneiform: Personalising Writing Practices in the Neo-Sumerian (Ur III) and Old Assyrian Periods (2022)
Thesis
Touillon-Ricci, M. Individuality and Identity in Cuneiform: Personalising Writing Practices in the Neo-Sumerian (Ur III) and Old Assyrian Periods. (Thesis). SOAS University of London and The British Museum

Writing is a product of the hand as much as of the mind; not an innate ability, it is a learned and practised skill, a combination of rules and standards performed by individuals. Inscribed objects, beyond their documentary content, materialise the w... Read More about Individuality and Identity in Cuneiform: Personalising Writing Practices in the Neo-Sumerian (Ur III) and Old Assyrian Periods.

Gazing into the Abyss: Representations of The Apāya in Thai Cosmological Parks (2022)
Thesis
Wang, R. Gazing into the Abyss: Representations of The Apāya in Thai Cosmological Parks. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Cosmological parks, utayan sawan narok, are a curious phenomenon that is widely visible in the Thai Buddhist landscape. These parks create a space in which different cosmic realms, literary scenes, historical figures and events, and anecdotes from th... Read More about Gazing into the Abyss: Representations of The Apāya in Thai Cosmological Parks.

African Ethno-Ethics and Bioethical Principlism: Implication for the Othered Patient (2022)
Book Chapter
Imafidon, E. (2022). African Ethno-Ethics and Bioethical Principlism: Implication for the Othered Patient. In A. Agada (Ed.), Ethnophilosophy and the Search for the Wellspring of African Philosophy (175-187). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78897-1_11

This chapter affirms the importance of the ethno in African moral discourse with particular reference to bioethical discourse. It begins by showing that the deductions of moral theories – normative, meta or applied – from African thought are made p... Read More about African Ethno-Ethics and Bioethical Principlism: Implication for the Othered Patient.

Ageing, Ageism, Cultural Representations of the Elderly and the Duty to Care in African Traditions (2022)
Book Chapter
Imafidon, E., Iyare, A. E., & Abudu, K. U. (2022). Ageing, Ageism, Cultural Representations of the Elderly and the Duty to Care in African Traditions. In J. O. Chimakonam, E. Eiteyibo, & I. Odimegwu (Eds.), Essays on Contemporary Issues in African Philosophy (281-300). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70436-0_18

Ageing as a natural process leads one gradually to a life’s stage where one becomes frail and elderly. In this life’s stage, due primarily to the wearing out of the body system, a number of health-related challenges arise. Such may include weakening... Read More about Ageing, Ageism, Cultural Representations of the Elderly and the Duty to Care in African Traditions.

What Was Jewish about Jewish Slavery in Late Antiquity? (2022)
Book Chapter
Hezser, C. (2022). What Was Jewish about Jewish Slavery in Late Antiquity?. In C. L. de Wet, M. Kahlos, & V. Vuolanto (Eds.), Slavery in the Late Antique World, 150-700 CE (129-148). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108568159.008

Just like other late antique societies, Jewish society in late antique Palestine was a slaveholding society in which slavery was a common phenomenon of daily life. Even though the proportional numbers of slaves within the population would not have re... Read More about What Was Jewish about Jewish Slavery in Late Antiquity?.

Buddhismus und Jainismus in der tamilischen Kulturgeschichte [Buddhism and Jainism in Tamil Cultural History] (2022)
Book Chapter
Branfoot, C. (2022). Buddhismus und Jainismus in der tamilischen Kulturgeschichte [Buddhism and Jainism in Tamil Cultural History]. In G. Noack, M. Muthukumaraswamy, & L. Priester-Lasch (Eds.), Von Liebe und Krieg: Tamilische Geschichte(n) aus Indien und der Welt [Of Love and War: Tamil (Hi-)Stories in India and the World] (166-175). Linden-Museum Stuttgart und Sandstein Verlag