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Music Across the DMZ (2010)
Book Chapter
Howard, K. (2010). Music Across the DMZ. In J. M. O'Connell, & S. El-Shawan Castelo-Branco (Eds.), Music in Conflict (67-88). University of Illinois Press

An exploration of music and politics in North and South Korea, looking at the divergence in musical creativity and production since 1945, and, through the examination of two events in 1990, a discussion of how music can play a part in the politics of... Read More about Music Across the DMZ.

Anthropology as Critical Legal Intervention? Instrumentalization, Co-Construction and Critical Reformulation in the Relationship between Anthropology and International Law (2009)
Journal Article
Bruce-Jones, E. (2009). Anthropology as Critical Legal Intervention? Instrumentalization, Co-Construction and Critical Reformulation in the Relationship between Anthropology and International Law. UCLA journal of international law and foreign affairs, 14(2), 331-366

This article creates a coherent way to imagine the relationship between law and anthropology. It describes an analytical separation between three overlapping and interacting branches, aiming to present the relationship in a way that is instructive an... Read More about Anthropology as Critical Legal Intervention? Instrumentalization, Co-Construction and Critical Reformulation in the Relationship between Anthropology and International Law.

Iraqi Women and Gender Relations: Redefining Difference (2008)
Journal Article
Al-Ali, N. (2008). Iraqi Women and Gender Relations: Redefining Difference. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 35(3), 405-419. https://doi.org/10.1080/13530190802525155

The proposed paper will explore the changing role of women and gender in Iraq from the 1950s pre-revolutionary period, throughout 35 years of Ba'th regime, economic sanctions to the current post 2003 period. Against the historic background of both st... Read More about Iraqi Women and Gender Relations: Redefining Difference.

Cosmopolitan nations, national cosmopolitans (2008)
Book Chapter
Fardon, R. (2008). Cosmopolitan nations, national cosmopolitans. In P. Werbner (Ed.), Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism: rooted, feminist and vernacular perspectives (233-259). Berg

Crafting Knowledge: the role of 'parsing and production' in the communication of skill-based knowledge among masons (2007)
Book Chapter
Marchand, T. H. (2007). Crafting Knowledge: the role of 'parsing and production' in the communication of skill-based knowledge among masons. In M. Harris (Ed.), Ways of Knowing (173-193). Berghahn

Following a brief introduction to the problem, the chapter introduces two recently emerging theories that I believe provide an appropriate framework for advancing anthropological studies of skill-based performance and practice, such as those of the m... Read More about Crafting Knowledge: the role of 'parsing and production' in the communication of skill-based knowledge among masons.

Language and identity: the perpetuation of dialects (2006)
Book Chapter
Ingham, B. (2006). Language and identity: the perpetuation of dialects. In D. Chatty (Ed.), Nomadic Societies in the Middle East and North Africa: Entering the 21st Century (523-538). Brill

Tiger in an African Palace (2005)
Book Chapter
Fardon, R. (2005). Tiger in an African Palace. In W. James, & D. S. Mills (Eds.), The Qualities of Time: Anthropological Approaches (73-93). Berg

Identity and Ritual in a Japanese Diving Village. The Making and Becoming of Person and Place (2004)
Book
Martinez, D. (2004). Identity and Ritual in a Japanese Diving Village. The Making and Becoming of Person and Place. University of Hawai'i Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824842376

Through her detailed description of a particular place (Kuzaki-cho) at a particular moment in time (the 1980s), D. P. Martinez addresses a variety of issues currently at the fore in the anthropology of Japan: the construction of identity, both for a... Read More about Identity and Ritual in a Japanese Diving Village. The Making and Becoming of Person and Place.