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Race in the Shadow of Law: State Violence in Contemporary Europe (2016)
Book
Bruce-Jones, E. (2016). Race in the Shadow of Law: State Violence in Contemporary Europe. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315625867

Race in the Shadow of Law offers a critical legal analysis of European responses to institutional racism. It draws connections between contemporary legal knowledge practices and colonial systems of thought, arguing that many people of colour experien... Read More about Race in the Shadow of Law: State Violence in Contemporary Europe.

Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Policy, Ideology and Practice in the Preservation of East Asian Traditions (2016)
Book
Rees, H., Kraef, O., Ingram, C., Gorfinkel, L., Maliangkay, R., Wang, Y.-F., Gillan, M., Alaszewska, J., Howard, K., & Arisawa, S. (2016). K. Howard (Ed.). Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Policy, Ideology and Practice in the Preservation of East Asian Traditions. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315596723

Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage explores the longstanding and extensive efforts to preserve music in East Asia, documenting and charting parallels and differences in legislation and the operation of systems for preservation and conservation, an... Read More about Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Policy, Ideology and Practice in the Preservation of East Asian Traditions.

Christianity and Korean Traditional Music (2016)
Book Chapter
Howard, K. (2016). Christianity and Korean Traditional Music. In S. A. Reily, & J. Dueck (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities (629-648). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199859993.013.005_update_001

Keith Howard offers an account of how Korean Christians who are professional musicians specializing in traditional music (kugak) have been attempting to construct a relationship between their faith and Korean traditional music, by incorporating Chris... Read More about Christianity and Korean Traditional Music.

Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Muslim World: History, Law and Vernacular Knowledge (2016)
Book
Hamzić, V. (2016). Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Muslim World: History, Law and Vernacular Knowledge. I.B. Tauris. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780755609147

This book offers a path-breaking historical analysis of the discourses on sexual and gender diversity in, or related to, the Muslim world, as well as an ethnographic account of contemporary Muslims in Lahore, Pakistan, whose pluralist sexual and gend... Read More about Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Muslim World: History, Law and Vernacular Knowledge.

Social Strategies and Material Fixes in Agotime Weaving (2016)
Book Chapter
Clifford Collard, N. J. (2016). Social Strategies and Material Fixes in Agotime Weaving. In T. H. Marchand (Ed.), Craftwork as Problem Solving: Ethnographic Studies of Design and Making (153-168). Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315562803-9

This chapter explores what problem solving meant for a community of Ghanaian craftsmen. Drawing on fieldwork carried out with weavers in a community workshop in Kpetoe Agotime, a small town in southeastern Ghana close to the border with Togo. Located... Read More about Social Strategies and Material Fixes in Agotime Weaving.

Transcultural Corporeity in Taiyozoku Youth Cinema. Some Notes on the Contradictions of Japaneseness in the Economic Miracle. (2016)
Book Chapter
Centeno, M. (2016). Transcultural Corporeity in Taiyozoku Youth Cinema. Some Notes on the Contradictions of Japaneseness in the Economic Miracle. In A. Becker, & K. Adachi-Rabe (Eds.), Presentation of Bodies in Japanese Films / Körperinszenierungen im japanischen Film (143-160). Büchner-Verlag

Japanese visual culture offers countless examples of mutable corporeity and metamorphosis processes, which often imply internal as well as external changes in characters, with which the Japanese notion of “body” (shintai) certainly acquires distinct... Read More about Transcultural Corporeity in Taiyozoku Youth Cinema. Some Notes on the Contradictions of Japaneseness in the Economic Miracle..

Craftwork as Problem Solving: ethnographic studies of design and making (2016)
Book
Marchand, T. H. (Ed.). (2016). Craftwork as Problem Solving: ethnographic studies of design and making. Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315562803

This volume brings together a cross-disciplinary group of anthropologists, researchers of craft, and designer-makers to enumerate and explore the diversity and complexity of problem-solving tactics and strategies employed by craftspeople, together wi... Read More about Craftwork as Problem Solving: ethnographic studies of design and making.