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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.

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”.

The Oil is Sizzling in the Pot’: Sound and Emotion in Uyghur Qur'anic Recitation (2014)
Journal Article
Harris, R. (2014). The Oil is Sizzling in the Pot’: Sound and Emotion in Uyghur Qur'anic Recitation. Ethnomusicology Forum, 23(3), 331-359. https://doi.org/10.1080/17411912.2014.956774

How do Muslims in different parts of the world recite and how do they hear the sound of the Qur'an? What are the purposes of their recitation, and what meanings do they associate with it? In this article I analyse one ritual performance of Qur'anic r... Read More about The Oil is Sizzling in the Pot’: Sound and Emotion in Uyghur Qur'anic Recitation.

Reviving Korean Identity through Intangible Cultural Heritage (2014)
Book Chapter
Howard, K. (2014). Reviving Korean Identity through Intangible Cultural Heritage. In C. Bithell, & J. Hill (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Musical Revival (135-159). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199765034.013.001

This article has been commissioned as part of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Music Revival edited by Caroline Bithell and Juniper Hill. This chapter explores the revival of the intangible cultural heritage, and the interface between preservation... Read More about Reviving Korean Identity through Intangible Cultural Heritage.

A Cry for Madness: Governance Feminism and Neoliberal Unity in Pakistan (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2014, May). A Cry for Madness: Governance Feminism and Neoliberal Unity in Pakistan. Presented at Governance Feminism Workshop, The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London, London, UK

This paper seeks to provide a critical reflection on the feminist movements in Pakistan. It includes an assessment of the concerted forces of homogenisation, ‘expertisation’, and discursively symptomatic power-engagements with governmental, crypto-go... Read More about A Cry for Madness: Governance Feminism and Neoliberal Unity in Pakistan.

The Khwajasara Movement and the Challenge of Translocality (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2014, April). The Khwajasara Movement and the Challenge of Translocality. Presented at 5th LAEMOS Conference, Havana, Cuba

This paper offers a critical ethnographic account of the khwajasara movement, based on the author’s most recent fieldwork in Lahore, Pakistan in 2011 and 2012. Khwajasara, known elsewhere in the Indian Subcontinent as hijre (sing. hijra), are Pakista... Read More about The Khwajasara Movement and the Challenge of Translocality.

Ainu. Pathways to Memory (2014)
Digital Artefact
Centeno, M. (2014). Ainu. Pathways to Memory. [DVD]

Ainu. Paths to Memory is a discovery documentary of the Ainu people in Japan. They have been historically considered savages by the Japanese and Russian governments. They were dispossessed from their lands and suffered unfair laws impeding them to ke... Read More about Ainu. Pathways to Memory.