Latest Publications
This page provides an up to date listing of all recent faculty publications sorted by Books, Edited Volumes and Journal Articles.
2012 |
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‘The judge as tragic hero: judicial ethics in Lebanon’s shari‘a courts’, American Ethnologist
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(1), 2012, Forthcoming.
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Concise Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology (Forthcoming), 2012, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
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‘Treatment Evaluation: An Anthropologist’s Approach’, In S. Scheid and H. MacPherson (eds)
Integrating East Asian Medicine into Contemporary Healthcare, London: Churchill Livingstone, 2012, pp. 157-172.
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‘Islamic bioethics and religious politics in Lebanon’, In M. Inhorn and S. Tremayne (eds)
slam and assisted reproductive technologies, New York: Berghahn Books, 2012, Forthcoming.
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‘Science and social change’, In A. Sajoo (ed.)
A Companion to Muslim Cultures (Muslim Heritage series), London: I.B. Tauris, 2012, Forthcoming.
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2011 |
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‘Comment on 'Identity' by Lauren Leve’, Cultural Anthropology
52
(4), 2011, pp. 526-527.
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‘Corrigendum’, Molecular Biology and Evolution
28
(8), 2011, pp. 2419-2420.
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‘Digital Diasporas conference review’, Anthropology Today
27
(2), 2011, pp. 28.
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‘Finding Meaning in the Text: The Process of Interpretation in Text-Based Divination’, Using Documents and Records in Social Research
(L. Prior), 2011.
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‘Mutuality and immediacy between marja‘ and muqallid: evidence from male IVF patients in Shi‘i Lebanon’, International Journal of Middle East Studies
43
(3), 2011, pp. 409-427.
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‘Not If But How: Ethnicity will have a role in the constitution, the question is just what that role will be’, The Kathmandu Post
(2 May), 2011.
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‘Preconditions of Democracy: An Outsider's Reflections and Their Reception in Nepal’, European Bulletin of Himalayan Research
38
, 2011, pp. 35-60.
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‘Prevalence of Clinically Relevant UGT1A Alleles and Haplotypes in African Populations’, Annals of Human Genetics
75
, 2011, pp. 236-246.
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‘Review Essay: ‘Revolutionizing Romance: Interracial Couples in Contemporary Cuba’ by Nadine T. Fernandez, and ‘Cuba in the Special Period: Culture and Ideology in the 1990s’ by Ariana Hernandez-Reguant (Ed.)’, Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
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(1), 2011, pp. 252-255.
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‘Review of 'Lancit, Matthew. Funeral season (la saison des funérailles): marking death in Cameroon. 2010'’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S)
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, 2011, pp. 632-680.
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Diasporic Generations: Memory, Politics and Nation among Cubans in Spain., 2011, Oxford: Berghahn Books.
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(under peer review) Learning to Dance: A Sensory Exploration of Bodily Discipline (Forthcoming), 2011, Berghahn Books.
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Fortune and the Cursed: The Sliding Scale of Time in Mongolian Divination (In Press), 2011, Oxford: Berghahn.
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‘Belonging, Indigeneity, Rites, and Rights: The Newar Case’, In J. Pfaff-Czarnecka and G. Toffin (eds)
The Politics of Belonging in the Himalayas, Delhi: Sage, 2011, pp. 45-76.
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‘Children of the revolution: Ayatollah Khamene’i’s ‘liberal’ views on in vitro fertilisation (reprint of BJMES article)’, In L. Ridgeon (ed.)
Iranian intellectuals: 1997-2007, London: Routledge, 2011, pp. 27-43.
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‘Cubans in Spain: Transnational Connections and Memories’, In Catherine Krull (ed.)
Cuba in a Global Context: International Relations, Internationalism, and Transnationalism, Gainsville: University of Florida Press, 2011.
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‘Expériences de la personne, de la santé, et de la maladie en Chine’, In M. Godelier (ed.)
Maladie et Santé Selon les Sociétés et les Cultures, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2011, pp. 75-110.
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‘Marrying at home, marrying away’, In K. Charsley and S. Vertove
Transnational Marriage: new perspective from Europe and beyond, Routledge: London, 2011, Forthcoming.
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Made to be Seen: Perspectives on the History of Visual Anthropology, 2011, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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2010 |
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‘Ancient Chinese Methods Are Remarkably Effective for the Preparation of Artemisinin-Rich Extracts of Qing Hao with Potent Antimalarial Activity’, Molecules
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(2), 2010, pp. 804-812.
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‘Body frame dimensions are related to obesity and fatness: lean trunk size, skinfolds, and body mass index’, American Journal of Human Biology
22
(1), 2010, pp. 83-91.
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‘Diary Evidence for Political Competition: Mambila Autoethnography and Pretensions to Power’, African Studies Review
53
(2), 2010, pp. 77-95.
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‘Digit ratios predict polygyny in early apes, Ardipithecus, Neanderthals and early modern humans but not in Australopithecus’, Proceedings of the Royal Society B
, 2010, pp. 10.1098/rspb.2010.1740.
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‘Gender, Disembodiment and Vocation: Exploring the Unmentionables of British Academic Life’, Critique of Anthropology
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(4), 2010, pp. 331-353.
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‘Hybridity, Belonging, and Mobilities: the Intercontinental Peripatetics of a Transnational Community’, Population, Space and Place
(earlyview DOI: 10.1002/psp.609), 2010.
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‘Neo-calligraphy: religious authority and media technology in contemporary Shiite Islam’, Comparative Studies in Society and History
52
(2), 2010, pp. 351-383.
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‘On the social ground beneath our feet: for a cosmopolitan anthropology. [Special issue on ‘A Cosmpolitan Anthropology?’ edited by Huon Wardle and Nigel Rapport]’, Social Anthropology / Anthropologie Sociale
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(4), 2010, pp. 433-440.
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‘Photographic Props / The Photographer as Prop: The Many Faces of Jacques Tousselle’, History and Anthropology
21
(4), 2010, pp. 453-477.
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‘Raja Servus of Larantuka, Flores, Eastern Indonesia’, Moussons
16
(1), 2010, pp. 39-55.
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‘Representation/Self-representation: A Tale of Two Portraits; Or, Portraits and Social Science Representations’, Visual Anthropology
23
(5), 2010, pp. 398-426.
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‘Review of 'Kinship and Beyond: The geneological model reconsidered' edited by Sandra Bamford and James Leach (Berghahn 2009)’, Anthropological Forum
20
(2), 2010, pp. 207-209.
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‘Routes and Traces; Anthropology, Photography and the Archive’, History and Anthropology (Special Issue)
21
(4), 2010.
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‘The Archive. Where Is the Archive?’, Photography & Culture
3
(3), 2010, pp. 331-342.
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‘Why are the British so Peculiar? Reflections on Sport, Nationalism, and Hierarchy’, JASO-online (NS)
2
(1-2), 2010, pp. 31-43.
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‘Ntsambu: the foul smell of home’, Food and Foodways
, 2010, Forthcoming.
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‘Two fisherman's songs from Ngazidja, Comoro Islands’, Wasafiri
, 2010, Forthcoming.
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‘Communication in social networks:Effects of kinship, network size and emotional closeness’, Personal Relationships
, 2010, In Press.
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Gathering Places: Essays in Aboriginal and Fur Trade. Histories, 2010, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
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Pulse Diagnosis in Early Chinese Medicine: The Telling Touch, 2010, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
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Becoming the Other, Being Oneself: Constructing Identities in a Connected World, 2010, Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle.
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The Japanese House: Material Culture in the Modern Home, 2010, Oxford: Berg Publishers.
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‘Bodies of power: narratives of selfhood and security in Nigeria’, In Thomas G. Kirsch and Tilo Grätz (eds)
Domesticating Vigilantism in Africa, Oxford: James Curry, 2010, pp. 118-138.
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‘Gender, Disembodiment and Vocation: Exploring the Unmentionables of British Academic Life’, In Pa. Atkinson and S. Demont (eds)
SAGE Qualitative Research Methods (Volume 4), London: SAGE Publications, 2010, pp. 107-30.
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‘Geography as History is also now History: Some Comments on Anthropology’s Role’, In R. Acosta, S. Rizvi, and A. Santos (eds)
Making Sense of the Global: Anthropological Perspectives on Interconnections and Processes, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010, pp. 195-205.
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‘In Memoriam, Asha Kaji Pandit’, In Pandit Vaidya Asha Kaji, N.B. Bajracharya (tr.), M. Allen (ed.)
The Dasakarma Vidhi: Fundamental Knowledge on Traditional Customs of Ten Rites of Passage Amongst the Buddhist Newars, Kathmandu: Mandala Book Point, 2010, pp. 17-20.
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‘Initiation as a Site of Cultural Conflict among the Newars’, In A. Zotter and C. Zotter (eds)
Hindu and Buddhist Initiations in India and Nepal, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010, pp. 167-181.
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‘Introduction: Making Civil Society in South Asia’, In D. N. Gellner (ed.)
Varieties of Activist Experience: Civil Society in South Asia, Delhi: Sage, 2010, pp. 1-14.
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‘Le diagnostic du pouls dans la chine mediévale d'apres les manuscrits de Dunhuang (with notes on P2115, P3106, P3287, P3477, P3481, P3655, P4093, S79, S181, S202, S5614, S6245, S8289, plus index’, In C. Despeux
Medicine, religion et société dans la Chine mediévale: Etude de manuscrits chinois de Dunhuang et de Turfan, Paris: College de France, Institut des Haute Etudes Chinoises, 2010, pp. 107-184.
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‘Nepal: Trajectories of Democracy and Restructuring of the State’, In P. Brass (ed.)
Routledge Handbook of South Asian Politics, Routledge, 2010, pp. 131-46.
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‘On Sense and Reference in Eastern Indonesian Personal Names: Finding Space for a Sociology of Naming’, In Zheng Yangwen and Charles J.-H. Macdonald (eds)
Personal Names in Asia: History, Culture and Identity, Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2010, pp. 224-244.
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‘Plants in Medical Practice and Common Sense: On the Interface of Ethnobotany and Medical Anthropology’, In E. Hsu and S. Harris
Plants, Health and Healing: on the Interface of Ethnobotany and Medical Anthropology, Oxford: Berghahn, 2010, pp. 1-48.
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‘Qing hao 青蒿 (Herba Artemisiae annuae) in the Chinese Materia Medica’, In E. Hsu and S. Harris
Plants, Health and Healing: on the Interface of Ethnobotany and Medical Anthropology, Oxford: Berghahn, 2010, pp. 83-130.
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‘Sociolinguistic studies of West and Central Africa’, In M.J. Ball (ed.)
The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics around the World, London: Routledge, 2010, pp. 201-213.
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‘Surveying Activists in Nepal’, In D. N. Gellner (ed.)
Varieties of Activist Experience: Civil Society in South Asia, Delhi: Sage, 2010, pp. 106-158.
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‘Tian’anmen in Yunnan: Emotions in the Field during a Political Crisis’, In J. Davies and D. Spencer
Emotions in the Field: the Psychology and Anthropology of Fieldwork Experience, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010, pp. 155-170.
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‘Arabia to the end of the First World War’, In F.H. Robinson (ed.)
The New Cambridge History of Islam Vol 5: The Islamic World in the Age of Western Dominance, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp. 134-153.
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‘Yemen’, In A. Pavković and P. Radan
Ashgate Research Companion to Secession, Farnham: Ashgate, 2010, Forthcoming.
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Naxi and Moso Ethnography: Kin, Rites, Pictographs (2010 Chinese translation: 米歇尔奥皮茨， 伊丽莎白许 (eds): 纳西， 摩梭，民族志： 亲属制， 仪式， 象形文字。 昆明： 云南大学出版社), 2010, Zürich: Völkerkundemuseum.
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Out of the Study, Into the Field: ethnographic theory and practice in France, 2010, Oxford: Berghahn.
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Plants, Health and Healing: on the Interface of Ethnobotany and Medical Anthropology, 2010, Oxford: Berghahn.
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Varieties of Activist Experience: Civil Society in South Asia, 2010, Sage: Delhi.
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- Dipankara statue owned by a sub-section (three of the five major lineages) of the Dhakhwa clan, displayed each year, with other Buddhist icons and paintings, for the Panchadan festival in Lalitpur, Nepal (1983, David Gellner)