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Review of: Howes, David. Sensorial investigations: a history of the senses in anthropology, psychology, and law. 290 pp., illus., bibliogr. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023. $29.95 (paper) (2025)
Journal Article
Marchand, T. (2025). Review of: Howes, David. Sensorial investigations: a history of the senses in anthropology, psychology, and law. 290 pp., illus., bibliogr. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023. $29.95 (paper). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 31(2), 627-628. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.14284

Identifying Best Practice in Recording Copy-Specific Elements in Special Collections Cataloging (2024)
Journal Article
Kither, A., & Appleton, L. (2024). Identifying Best Practice in Recording Copy-Specific Elements in Special Collections Cataloging. Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, 62(1), 7-55. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2023.2290725

This paper considers various approaches to the practice of copy-specific descriptive cataloging in rare books and special collections and seeks to identify how practice can be improved to ensure greater discoverability. Through applying a survey meth... Read More about Identifying Best Practice in Recording Copy-Specific Elements in Special Collections Cataloging.

Challenging its imperial origins: towards decolonising SOAS Library (2021)
Book Chapter
Price, L. (2021). Challenging its imperial origins: towards decolonising SOAS Library. In J. Crilly, & R. Everitt (Eds.), Narrative expansions: interpreting decolonisation in academic libraries (213-224). Facet

This chapter outlines the ongoing process of decolonising the library at SOAS, University of London (otherwise known as the School of Oriental and African Studies). It deals first with the history of SOAS and its library, highlighting its deep coloni... Read More about Challenging its imperial origins: towards decolonising SOAS Library.

Settled rather than saddled Scythians: the easternmost Sakas (2020)
Book Chapter
Waghmar, B. (2020). Settled rather than saddled Scythians: the easternmost Sakas. In S. Pankova, & S. J. Simpson (Eds.), Masters of the Steppe: the Impact of the Scythians and Later Nomad Societies of Eurasia. Proceedings of a conference held at the British Museum, 27-29 October 2017 (639-649). Archaeopress

At the easternmost edge of the Iranic world, settled rather than saddled Scythians ran the kingdom of Khotan as Iranian-speaking Buddhists who traded and tussled with their T’ang and Tibetan neighbours. Straddling the Sino-Tibetan and Irano-Indic oec... Read More about Settled rather than saddled Scythians: the easternmost Sakas.

Ethical Reflexivity and Research Governance: Navigating the Tensions (Online Module) (2019)
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Istratii, R., & Hasan, K. (2019). Ethical Reflexivity and Research Governance: Navigating the Tensions (Online Module). SOAS University of London

This module explores tensions that exist between the commitment to take ethical approaches in global research and to abide by UK/EU-based research governance standards. The course considers how researchers can meet these evolving funder guidelines re... Read More about Ethical Reflexivity and Research Governance: Navigating the Tensions (Online Module).

Annemarie Schimmel v: Bibliography (2018)
Book Chapter
Waghmar, B. Annemarie Schimmel v: Bibliography. In E. Yarshater (Ed.), Encyclopædia Iranica. Encyclopædia Iranica Foundation

Critical systems librarianship (2018)
Book Chapter
Barron, S., & Preater, A. J. (2018). Critical systems librarianship. In K. P. Nicholson, & M. Seale (Eds.), The Politics of Theory and the Practice of Critical Librarianship (87-113). Library Juice Press

West African languages enrich the frequency code: Multi-functional pitch and multi-dimensional prosody in Ikaan polar questions (2017)
Journal Article
Salffner, S. (2017). West African languages enrich the frequency code: Multi-functional pitch and multi-dimensional prosody in Ikaan polar questions. Laboratory Phonology, 8(1), 1-44. https://doi.org/10.5334/labphon.94

Cross-linguistically, statements tend to be pronounced with low or falling pitch and questions with high or rising pitch, a form–meaning pairing which has been attributed to the frequency code (Ohala, 1984). In many West African languages, however, q... Read More about West African languages enrich the frequency code: Multi-functional pitch and multi-dimensional prosody in Ikaan polar questions.