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The Gentle Cannibal: The Rise and Fall of Lawful Milk (2014)
Journal Article
Otomo, Y. (2014). The Gentle Cannibal: The Rise and Fall of Lawful Milk. Australian Feminist Law Journal, 40(2), 215-228. https://doi.org/10.1080/13200968.2014.1008097

Milk, a globally traded commodity, is ubiquitous throughout our food systems. In light of its ever-increasing production and consumption, this article seeks to contextualise the fluid within a history of its regulation, tracing the role of state inte... Read More about The Gentle Cannibal: The Rise and Fall of Lawful Milk.

“Our stories, from us, the ‘they’: Nick Gold talks to Lucy Durán talk about the making of Buena Vista Social Club” (2014)
Journal Article
Duran, L. (2014). “Our stories, from us, the ‘they’: Nick Gold talks to Lucy Durán talk about the making of Buena Vista Social Club”. Journal of World Popular Music, 1, 135-155. https://doi.org/10.1558/jwpm.v1i1.133

Lucy Durán is a Senior Lecturer in African music in
the Music Department of the School of Oriental and
African Studies, University of London. Her principal
field of research is Mande music, which she has been
researching since 1977. Her recent re... Read More about “Our stories, from us, the ‘they’: Nick Gold talks to Lucy Durán talk about the making of Buena Vista Social Club”.

Fools (Ramadan Suleman, 1997): or, the importance of being able to tell 'messy' stories at the 'wrong' time (2014)
Book Chapter
Dovey, L. (2014). Fools (Ramadan Suleman, 1997): or, the importance of being able to tell 'messy' stories at the 'wrong' time. In L. Bisschoff, & D. Murphy (Eds.), Africa's Lost Classics: New Histories of African Cinema (107-112). Legenda. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315097534-12

Ramadan Suleman and Bhekizizwe Peterson's film Fools (1997) occupies a vital place in South African and cinema history as the first feature-length fiction film made by black filmmakers in post-apartheid South Africa. However, Fools is far from a dry... Read More about Fools (Ramadan Suleman, 1997): or, the importance of being able to tell 'messy' stories at the 'wrong' time.

The Colonial Legacy (2014)
Book Chapter
Tejani, S. (2014). The Colonial Legacy. In A. Guneratne, & A. Weiss (Eds.), Pathways to Power: the Domestic Politics of South Asia (21-103). Rowman and Littlefield

The Relative Chronology of the nivids and the praises and the Standardisation of Vedic Ritual (2014)
Journal Article
Proferes, T. N. The Relative Chronology of the nivids and the praises and the Standardisation of Vedic Ritual. Indo-Iranian Journal, 57(3), 199-221. https://doi.org/10.1163/15728536-05703013

Analysis of the language and formulaics of the Vedic liturgical prose texts known as nivids and praiṣas reveals that they presuppose a complete, multi-lineage collection of the Ṛgveda, yet are linguistically more archaic than the bulk of mantras inco... Read More about The Relative Chronology of the nivids and the praises and the Standardisation of Vedic Ritual.

Tracing connections and its politics (2014)
Book Chapter
Novak, P. (2014). Tracing connections and its politics. In H. Alff, & A. Benz (Eds.), Tracing Connections: Explorations of Spaces and Places in Asian Contexts. VWB

The chapter argues that studying places and identities as a tension yields useful research insights, because it forces us to do three things. First, it forces us to think about places and identities as processes – as continuously configured and re-co... Read More about Tracing connections and its politics.

南越银盒- 异域风格的秦代银器 (2014)
Book Chapter
Nickel, L. (2014). 南越银盒- 异域风格的秦代银器. In W. Cao, & T. Rehren (Eds.), 秦时期冶金考古 – 国际学术讨论会文集, International Symposium on Qin Period Metallurgy and its Social and Archaeological Context (84-94). Kexue press

Discussion of a group of silver vessels with Achaemenid - inspired lobed decoration. The text re-dates the boxes to the 3rd century BC and identifies them as early examples of exoticism in China.