Outputs (56)

The Antinomies of Heritage: Tradition and the Work of Weaving in a Ghanaian Workshop (2020)
Book Chapter
Clifford Collard, N. J. The Antinomies of Heritage: Tradition and the Work of Weaving in a Ghanaian Workshop. In B. Baillie, & M. L. S. Sørensen (Eds.), African Heritage Challenges: Communities and Sustainable Development (181-199). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4366-1_7

Exploring the values attached to heritage through an ethnography of craftwork in southern Ghana, this chapter looks at how the routine, quotidian sociality of weaving, engaged in by young men seeking livelihoods, embodies ideas about cultural practic... Read More about The Antinomies of Heritage: Tradition and the Work of Weaving in a Ghanaian Workshop.

Boat-building, Experimental Archaeology and the Indispensability of Hands-on Know-how (2020)
Journal Article
Marchand, T. H. (2020). Boat-building, Experimental Archaeology and the Indispensability of Hands-on Know-how. Metalla (Bochum), 10, 43-52

On the idea of 'the people' (2020)
Journal Article
Venkat, V. (2020). On the idea of 'the people'. Biblio: a review of books, 26(10-12), 5-6

Infrastructure, Maintenance, and Waste in a Myanmar Hospital (2020)
Digital Artefact
Wuttke, N. Infrastructure, Maintenance, and Waste in a Myanmar Hospital

A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine (2020)
Book
Allen, L. (2020). A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine. Stanford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503614192

This book offers a provocative retelling of Palestinian political history through an examination of the international commissions that have investigated political violence and human rights violations. More than twenty commissions have been convened o... Read More about A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine.

Rhythms, riffs, and rituals in political parties: An anthropological view of complex coalitions (2020)
Journal Article
Crewe, E. (2021). Rhythms, riffs, and rituals in political parties: An anthropological view of complex coalitions. Ephemera, 21(1), 187-198

From an anthropological perspective politics is a form of work that involves political struggles in the face of difference. The discipline of anthropology has the potential to offer rigorous and in-depth accounts of politics by relying on reflexivity... Read More about Rhythms, riffs, and rituals in political parties: An anthropological view of complex coalitions.

Right to information and the shrinking space for dissent in India (2020)
Digital Artefact
Venkat, V. Right to information and the shrinking space for dissent in India. [Blog post]

Review of Joanna Brück's 'Personifying Prehistory' (2020)
Journal Article
HadžiMuhamedović, S. (2020). Review of Joanna Brück's 'Personifying Prehistory'. Anthropos, 115(2), 552

COVID-19 and the (Extra)ordinariness of Crisis: Lessons from Homeless Migrants (2020)
Journal Article
Sanders, C. (2020). COVID-19 and the (Extra)ordinariness of Crisis: Lessons from Homeless Migrants. Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change, 5(2), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.20897/jcasc/9322

Interrogating the Role and Value of Cultural Expertise in Law (2020)
Journal Article
Campbell, J. (2020). Interrogating the Role and Value of Cultural Expertise in Law. Laws, 9(29), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.3390/laws9040029

It is common for litigation to draw upon expert evidence to assist a judge to arrive at a balanced decision. This paper examines the role of one type of expert evidence submitted to courts, namely cultural expertise (CE), which provides information o... Read More about Interrogating the Role and Value of Cultural Expertise in Law.