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Everyday disasters, stagnation and the normalcy of non-development: Roghun Dam, a flood, and campaigns of forced taxation in southern Tajikistan (2015)
Journal Article
Ibanez-Tirado, D. (2015). Everyday disasters, stagnation and the normalcy of non-development: Roghun Dam, a flood, and campaigns of forced taxation in southern Tajikistan. Central Asian Survey, 34(4), 549-563. https://doi.org/10.1080/02634937.2015.1091600

This article conducts a comparative analysis of a catastrophic flood that hit the Kulob region of southern Tajikistan in 2010, and the government of Tajikistan's campaign to gather money to build the Roghun dam and hydropower station. It advances the... Read More about Everyday disasters, stagnation and the normalcy of non-development: Roghun Dam, a flood, and campaigns of forced taxation in southern Tajikistan.

The House of Commons: an anthropology of MPs' work (2015)
Book
Crewe, E. (2015). The House of Commons: an anthropology of MPs' work. Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474234610.ch-003

The House of Commons is one of Britain's mysterious institutions: constantly in the news yet always opaque. In this ground-breaking anthropological study of the world's most famous parliament, Emma Crewe reveals the hidden mechanisms of parliamentary... Read More about The House of Commons: an anthropology of MPs' work.

The (Un)Conscious Pariah: Canine and Gender Outcasts of the British Raj (2015)
Journal Article
Hamzić, V. The (Un)Conscious Pariah: Canine and Gender Outcasts of the British Raj. Australian Feminist Law Journal, 40(2), 185-198. https://doi.org/10.1080/13200968.2014.985774

In the post-1857 colonial era, the Indian social and legal landscape underwent a seismic shift, caused by evermore direct and forceful British rule in many spheres of life, including human-animal and gender relations. This paper provides a brief anal... Read More about The (Un)Conscious Pariah: Canine and Gender Outcasts of the British Raj.

The Shapes of Otherness: the Representation of the Ainu People in Brodsky’s Travelogues 1918-1919 (2015)
Journal Article
Centeno, M. (2015). The Shapes of Otherness: the Representation of the Ainu People in Brodsky’s Travelogues 1918-1919. Kokoro (Cáceres), 14-22

The origins of cinema coincided with the growing interest in Ainu culture in the West. It is not surprising that the Ainu people appeared in the first images filmed by the cinematograph in Japan. This essay focus the analysis on the Ainu sequences in... Read More about The Shapes of Otherness: the Representation of the Ainu People in Brodsky’s Travelogues 1918-1919.

A Guide to the Ikaan Language and Culture Documentation (2015)
Journal Article
Salffner, S. (2015). A Guide to the Ikaan Language and Culture Documentation. Language Documentation & Conservation, 9, 237-267

Language documentation collections contain valuable and unique resources on the languages and cultures of the people represented in the collection. To allow users to understand and use one particular collection, this article provides a guide to the l... Read More about A Guide to the Ikaan Language and Culture Documentation.

A Diary of Filmmaking with Djenné Masons: From “Studies of” toward “Studies with” (2015)
Journal Article
Marchand, T. H. (2015). A Diary of Filmmaking with Djenné Masons: From “Studies of” toward “Studies with”. Visual Anthropology, 28(4), 308-323. https://doi.org/10.1080/08949468.2015.1052328

Visual representation is vital to the study of craft. Craftwork takes place in dynamic social contexts in which a multitude of often interdependent activities occur simultaneously between actors, materials, tools and other objects. This article trace... Read More about A Diary of Filmmaking with Djenné Masons: From “Studies of” toward “Studies with”.