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This dialogic paper on kalkut’s (Samaresh Basu) two novels was related to Konark ‘ s sun…

...for a project between my university and the University of Rome (Tor Vergata) on Post-Secularism.

Hajji Bektash Veli Museum and the Implicit Post-Secularism of Museumisation Processes in Republican Turkey

Using the binary of religion and secularism ‘as a lighter’ in the sense emplyed by Knott in her work ‘Locating Religion’ (2005) I similarly propose to look at public  ritual and religiosity (ın a Turkish context) to shed some light on the issue of the…

Hello!

So it's been a while but the exams do tend to take over if you let them so apologies for the radio silence.

My first visit to 'galgael' http://www.galgael.org/, an independent trust set up in Govan will be on June 7th! I'm really excited but won't post anything here until they give me the go ahead to keep coming along, hanging about and asking difficult questions like any anthropologist worth their salt. 

I don't know…

পটের চিন্হতত্ত্ব Semiotics of Photography

অনেকান্ত সাহিত্যতত্ত্ব Anekanta Sahityattva

"Some mammals may be more vulnerable to climate change than previously anticipated," Carrie Schloss of the University of Washington, US, told environmentalresearchweb. "For example, many primates and shrews and moles will likely be unable to keep pace with climate change across much of their ranges. On the other hand, carnivores such as coyotes or wolves and ungulates such as moose will likely be able to keep pace with changes in climate."

Schloss and colleagues looked at…

London, May 24 (ANI): Chimpanzees and orangutans have personalities "like people", a new study has claimed.

The new findings address a long-standing debate about whether great apes possess human-like personalities or if such perceived behaviour is an anthropomorphic projection of human observers, the researchers said.

The research team used a statistical technique to "remove" any biases apparent in human observers of the apes' behaviour, and they say their findings suggest man…

London, May 24 (ANI): Chimpanzees and orangutans have personalities "like people", a new study has claimed.

The new findings address a long-standing debate about whether great apes possess human-like personalities or if such perceived behaviour is an anthropomorphic projection of human observers, the researchers said.

The research team used a statistical technique to "remove" any biases apparent in human observers of the apes' behaviour, and they say their findings suggest man…

কথায় সুরে, সুরে কথায় (Musicking in Speaking or Speaking in Musicking)

[The English version of this paper can be found at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2015741. And this paper is theoretically influenced by the anthropological findings of Christopher Small, Alpons Siberman (who did works on Afro-Asian Music). The haunting question is: how do so-called primitive…

'Folksong and Classical Song: The Discursive Formation of Dividing Practice'

Marietta Baba

With the popular idea that the world we are living in is more open and presents less boundaries. How do we discuss cultural, social or national  identities?

Is the need of a national definition not necessary anymore or does imagining substitutes the need for a social group to determine themselves from a nation or a society in particular?

Hi there everyone! This is a post to tell you about two awesome things that happened to me recently. No worries, they are anthropology related if not strictly so ;)

Last March I started volunteering for Treadwell's bookshop as well as for Abraxas journal. The two are strictly interlocked in as much as in 2009 Treadwell's owner Christina Harrington joined armies with Robert Ansell, director at Fulgur, one of the biggest esoteric publishers around, to create the marvel which is Abraxas…

Leela Dube, who passed away in New Delhi on Sunday aged 89, was one of the early pioneers of feminist scholarship in India along with Irawati Karve, Vina Majumdar, and Lotika Sarkar. Scan through the acknowledgements and citations of any sociological or anthropological book on kinship or gender in India, from the 1960s till the present, and her name comes up with unfailing regularity.



In a delightful autobiographical essay published in the Economic…

I just watched Keith Hart at Cambridge talking about the diffuse nature of Cambridge networks and the implications of that for the possibility of radical change and a real and sustained attack on global inequality (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsGfDU1gATU&feature=relmfu).  It is nice to listen to my esteemed colleague who sees the world as I do, but who seems more optimistic.  His glass seems three-quarters…