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The Antinomies of Heritage: Tradition and the Work of Weaving in a Ghanaian Workshop (2020)
Book Chapter
Clifford Collard, N. J. The Antinomies of Heritage: Tradition and the Work of Weaving in a Ghanaian Workshop. In B. Baillie, & M. L. S. Sørensen (Eds.), African Heritage Challenges: Communities and Sustainable Development (181-199). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4366-1_7

Exploring the values attached to heritage through an ethnography of craftwork in southern Ghana, this chapter looks at how the routine, quotidian sociality of weaving, engaged in by young men seeking livelihoods, embodies ideas about cultural practic... Read More about The Antinomies of Heritage: Tradition and the Work of Weaving in a Ghanaian Workshop.

Rhythms, riffs, and rituals in political parties: An anthropological view of complex coalitions (2020)
Journal Article
Crewe, E. (2021). Rhythms, riffs, and rituals in political parties: An anthropological view of complex coalitions. Ephemera, 21(1), 187-198

From an anthropological perspective politics is a form of work that involves political struggles in the face of difference. The discipline of anthropology has the potential to offer rigorous and in-depth accounts of politics by relying on reflexivity... Read More about Rhythms, riffs, and rituals in political parties: An anthropological view of complex coalitions.

Entanglements of Life with the Law : Precarity and Justice in London's Magistrates Courts (2020)
Book
Campbell, J. (2020). Entanglements of Life with the Law : Precarity and Justice in London's Magistrates Courts. Cambridge Scholars Publishing

This book examines the quality and nature of justice dispensed in London’s magistrates’ courts which are the lowest level of the United Kingdom’s Criminal Justice System. In 2017 approximately two hundred thirty thousand individuals were prosecuted f... Read More about Entanglements of Life with the Law : Precarity and Justice in London's Magistrates Courts.

NGOs as Social Movements: Policy Narratives, Networks and the Performance of Dalit Rights in South India (2020)
Journal Article
Mosse, D., & Nagappan, S. B. (2021). NGOs as Social Movements: Policy Narratives, Networks and the Performance of Dalit Rights in South India. Development and Change, 52(1), 134-167. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12614

Donor‐funded development NGOs are sometimes portrayed as co‐opting, privatizing or depoliticizing citizen action or social movements. This much is implied by the term ‘NGOization’. Alternatively, NGOs can be seen as bearers of rights‐based work incre... Read More about NGOs as Social Movements: Policy Narratives, Networks and the Performance of Dalit Rights in South India.

The Constructed Soundscapes of Place in Korea, South and North (2020)
Book Chapter
Howard, K. (2020). The Constructed Soundscapes of Place in Korea, South and North. In K. Howard, & C. Ingram (Eds.), Presence Through Sound : Music and Place in East Asia (102-117). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429326295-8

This chapter explores sonic icons of Korean musical identity, asking how they are used today to establish an image of place that is far from what they stood for in the past. It considers the nationally and internationally familiar soundworld of kugak... Read More about The Constructed Soundscapes of Place in Korea, South and North.

Presence Through Sound: Place and Contemporary Music in East Asia (2020)
Book
Howard, K., Ingram, C., Ong, M. Y., McLaren, A., Liu, L., Roche, G., Kim, H., Maliangkay, R., de Ferranti, H., Terauchi, N., Finchum-Sung, H., Day, K., & Teoh, Y.-M. (2020). K. Howard, & C. Ingram (Eds.). Presence Through Sound: Place and Contemporary Music in East Asia. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429326295

Presence Through Sound narrates and analyses, through a range of case studies on selected musics of China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Tibet, some of the many ways in which music and ‘place’ intersect and are interwoven with meaning in East Asia. It ex... Read More about Presence Through Sound: Place and Contemporary Music in East Asia.

‘From Standing Rock to Palestine We are United’: diaspora politics, decolonisation and the intersectionality of struggles (2020)
Journal Article
Salih, R., Zambelli, E., & Welchman, L. (2021). ‘From Standing Rock to Palestine We are United’: diaspora politics, decolonisation and the intersectionality of struggles. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 44(7), 1135-1153. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2020.1779948

This article analyses a form of diasporic activism that breaks the seeming duality between diasporic imaginaries and colonial realities, diasporas and refugees. By focusing on the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) it analyses a diasporic standpoint wh... Read More about ‘From Standing Rock to Palestine We are United’: diaspora politics, decolonisation and the intersectionality of struggles.

The Sacred Spaces and Sites of the Mediterranean in Contemporary Theological, Anthropological and Sociological Approaches and Debates (2020)
Book Chapter
Stoyanov, Y. (2020). The Sacred Spaces and Sites of the Mediterranean in Contemporary Theological, Anthropological and Sociological Approaches and Debates. In S. Ferrari, & A. Benzo (Eds.), Between Cultural Diversity and Common Heritage. Legal and Religious Perspectives on the Sacred Places of the Mediterranean (25-36). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315569109-3

Ambivalent Regionalism and the Promotion of a New National Staple Food: Reinventing Potatoes in Inner Mongolia and Yunnan (2020)
Journal Article
Klein, J. A. (2020). Ambivalent Regionalism and the Promotion of a New National Staple Food: Reinventing Potatoes in Inner Mongolia and Yunnan. Global Food History, 6(2), 143-163. https://doi.org/10.1080/20549547.2020.1771064

This article addresses the relationship between national, regional, and local dimensions of Chinese culinary cultures and identities through the prism of the potato. Specifically, I explore how the central government’s strategy to transform the potat... Read More about Ambivalent Regionalism and the Promotion of a New National Staple Food: Reinventing Potatoes in Inner Mongolia and Yunnan.

A coming of age in the anthropological study of anime? Introductory thoughts envisioning the Business Anthropology of Japanese Animation (2020)
Journal Article
Mihara, R. (2020). A coming of age in the anthropological study of anime? Introductory thoughts envisioning the Business Anthropology of Japanese Animation. Journal of business anthropology, 9(1), 88-110. https://doi.org/10.22439/jba.v9i1.59+63

This article highlights how Anglophone anthropological studies of Japanese animation (anime) have overlooked its businesspeople (such as producers, investors, merchandisers, and entrepreneurs) by formulaically advocating anime creators and fans as cr... Read More about A coming of age in the anthropological study of anime? Introductory thoughts envisioning the Business Anthropology of Japanese Animation.

Meritorious Curating and the Renewal of Pagoda Museums in Myanmar (2020)
Thesis
Tan, H. Meritorious Curating and the Renewal of Pagoda Museums in Myanmar. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Gifts have been accumulated, stored and displayed at sacred sites in Myanmar for millennia as they have elsewhere within the Buddhist world. This thesis is the first attempt to analyse the phenomenon known as the ‘pagoda museum’ that existed since at... Read More about Meritorious Curating and the Renewal of Pagoda Museums in Myanmar.

Songs of "Great Leaders": Ideology and Creativity in North Korean Music and Dance (2020)
Book
Howard, K. (2020). Songs of "Great Leaders": Ideology and Creativity in North Korean Music and Dance. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190077518.001.0001

North Korea is often said to be unknown: a reclusive and secretive state. It behaves as if the whole country is a theatre that projects itself through performance. Song, together with other music and dance production, forms the soundtrack to the thea... Read More about Songs of "Great Leaders": Ideology and Creativity in North Korean Music and Dance.

North Koreans' Public Narratives and Conditional Inclusion in South Korea (2020)
Journal Article
Hough, J., & Bell, M. (2020). North Koreans' Public Narratives and Conditional Inclusion in South Korea. Critical Asian Studies, 52(2), 161-181. https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.2020.1740606

This article draws on the public testimonies of North Koreans living in South Korea (t’albungmin) and analyzes the role that these narratives play in South Korean society as mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion. North and South Korea technically rem... Read More about North Koreans' Public Narratives and Conditional Inclusion in South Korea.

Jaina Non-Tīrthas in Madhyadeśa I: Fragments of Digambara Temples and A New Vaiṣṇava Inscription in Tumain (2020)
Journal Article
Flügel, P., Balogh, D., Wright, J. C., & Mallinson, J. (2020). Jaina Non-Tīrthas in Madhyadeśa I: Fragments of Digambara Temples and A New Vaiṣṇava Inscription in Tumain. Jaina studies, 15, 23-30

The article introduces the term 'non-tīrtha' as a new analytical category to designate Jaina sacred sites that have vanished or do not yet exist, according to the cyclical Jaina conception of history. It presents new evidence on two different Digamba... Read More about Jaina Non-Tīrthas in Madhyadeśa I: Fragments of Digambara Temples and A New Vaiṣṇava Inscription in Tumain.