All Outputs (27)

Constructing Post-Colonial India: National Character and the Doon School (1998)
Book
Srivastava, S. (1998). Constructing Post-Colonial India: National Character and the Doon School. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203980279

An interdisciplinary and engaging book which looks at the nature of Indian society since Independence and unpacks what post-colonialism means to Indian citizens. Using the case study of the Doon School, a famous boarding school for boys, and one of t... Read More about Constructing Post-Colonial India: National Character and the Doon School.

Gujurati migrants' search for modernity in Britain (1998)
Journal Article
Crewe, E., & Kothari, U. (1998). Gujurati migrants' search for modernity in Britain. Gender & Development, 6(1), 13-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/741922627

Whose Development? An Ethnography of Aid (1998)
Book
Crewe, E., & Harrison, E. (1998). Whose Development? An Ethnography of Aid. Zed Books

Seeing Like James Scott: A Review of Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, by James Scott (1998)
Journal Article
West, H. G. (1998). Seeing Like James Scott: A Review of Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, by James Scott. Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 21(2), 127-131. https://doi.org/10.1525/pol.1998.21.2.127

Redefining Kuzaki: ritual, belief and cho boundaries (1998)
Book Chapter
Martinez, D. (1998). Redefining Kuzaki: ritual, belief and cho boundaries. In J. Hendry (Ed.), Interpreting Japanese Society (213-221). Routledge

The former fishing and diving village of Kuzaki had been incorporated into Toba city for several decades when I did my fieldwork in 1984-6. Yet the cho¯ (ward) retained its distance from the city and other nearby cho¯ (which had also been distinct vi... Read More about Redefining Kuzaki: ritual, belief and cho boundaries.

The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture (1998)
Book
Martinez, D. (Ed.). (1998). The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511470158

Dolores Martinez heads an international team of scholars in this lively discussion of Japanese popular culture. The book's contributors include Japanese as well as British, Icelandic and North American writers, offering a diversity of views of what J... Read More about The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture.

On flirting and friendship: micro-politics in a hierarchical society (1998)
Journal Article
Osella, C., & Osella, F. (1998). On flirting and friendship: micro-politics in a hierarchical society. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 4(2), 189-206. https://doi.org/10.2307/3034499

Two pastors and their histories: Samuel Johnson and C C Reindorf (1998)
Book Chapter
Peel, J. (1998). Two pastors and their histories: Samuel Johnson and C C Reindorf. In C. C. Reindorf, & S. Johnson (Eds.), The Recovery of the West African Past: African pastors and African history in the nineteenth century (57-78). Basler Afrika Bibliographien

The Self in Self-Repatriation: Closing down Mugunga Camp Eastern Zaire (1998)
Book Chapter
Pottier, J. (1998). The Self in Self-Repatriation: Closing down Mugunga Camp Eastern Zaire. In R. Black, & K. Koser (Eds.), The End of the Refugee Cycle? Refugee Repatriation and Reconstruction (142-170). Berghahn Books

Beads, Prestige and Life Force among the Kelabit of Sarawak (1998)
Book Chapter
Janowski, M. (1998). Beads, Prestige and Life Force among the Kelabit of Sarawak. In L. Sciama, & J. Eicher (Eds.), Beads and bead makers : gender, material culture, and meaning (213-246). Berg. https://doi.org/10.2752/9780857854025/BEADS0013

Telling stories about the authority of place : Ethnographizing Tudi Gong in contemporary Taiwan. (1998)
Thesis
Dell'Orto, A. Telling stories about the authority of place : Ethnographizing Tudi Gong in contemporary Taiwan. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis examines the cult of Tudi Gong, the 'spirit of the place,' both as a religio-social phenomenon of intrinsic interest, but also as an 'appropriate vehicle' and a 'fixed reference point' for exploring and analysing the dynamic social change... Read More about Telling stories about the authority of place : Ethnographizing Tudi Gong in contemporary Taiwan..

The Marketisation of Higher Education: Management, Discourse and the Politics of Performance (1998)
Book Chapter
Selwyn, T., & Shore, C. (1998). The Marketisation of Higher Education: Management, Discourse and the Politics of Performance. In D. Jary, & M. Parker (Eds.), The New Higher Education: Issues and directions for the Post-Dearing University. Staffordshire University Press

North Cyprus Tourism Master Plan (1998)
Report
Selwyn, T. (1998). North Cyprus Tourism Master Plan

Becoming Dagongmei: Body, identity and transgression in Reform China. (1998)
Thesis
Pun, N. Becoming Dagongmei: Body, identity and transgression in Reform China. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

My study focuses on the working lives of Chinese women in the light of China's attempt to incorporate its socialist system into the world economy in the Reform era. My cardinal concern is the formation of a new social body - dagongmei - in contempora... Read More about Becoming Dagongmei: Body, identity and transgression in Reform China..

The mandala of a market: A study of social and cultural change in Murang'a District, Kenya. (1998)
Thesis
Heyer, A. F. The mandala of a market: A study of social and cultural change in Murang'a District, Kenya. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This study takes the market-place as a focus for looking at the changes which have taken place during the course of this century in relation to the development of the state and capitalism. The market-place is viewed in terms of the relationships betw... Read More about The mandala of a market: A study of social and cultural change in Murang'a District, Kenya..

The pastoral continuum: the marginalization of tradition in East Africa (1998)
Book
Spencer, P. (1998). The pastoral continuum: the marginalization of tradition in East Africa. Clarendon Press

The Samburu Dance (1998)
Book Chapter
Spencer, P. (1998). The Samburu Dance. In S. J. Cohen (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Dance. Dance Perspectives Foundation

Age Systems and Modes of Predatory Expansion (1998)
Book Chapter
Spencer, P. (1998). Age Systems and Modes of Predatory Expansion. In E. Kurimoto, & S. Simonse (Eds.), Conflict, age and power in North East Africa : age systems in transition (168-185). James Currey

The making of a 'community': An anthropological study among the Puyuma of Taiwan. (1998)
Thesis
Chen, W.-T. The making of a 'community': An anthropological study among the Puyuma of Taiwan. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis has two primary purposes. Firstly, by focusing on the issue of 'community', it provides a detailed ethnographic account of a Puyuma settlement in Taiwan. Particular emphasis is laid upon investigating comprehensively the interrelationship... Read More about The making of a 'community': An anthropological study among the Puyuma of Taiwan..

Performative politics: Artworks, festival praxis and nationalism with reference to the Ganapati Utsava in Western India. (1998)
Thesis
Kahlon, R. K. Performative politics: Artworks, festival praxis and nationalism with reference to the Ganapati Utsava in Western India. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This study explores regionally based perspectives on the broader nation-wide phenomena of the politicisation of Hinduism (Hindutva) in historical and contemporary times (van der Veer 1987; Basu et al 1993; Pandey 1993; Jaffrelot 1996). However, in co... Read More about Performative politics: Artworks, festival praxis and nationalism with reference to the Ganapati Utsava in Western India..