Dip into some 'key readings' in anthropology, compiled by
@berghahnbooks.bsky.social from its leading titles⬇️
Featuring Prof David Zeitlyn (Professor of Social Anthropology) & @chihab.bsky.social (Associate Professor in Visual Anthropology)
Info: www.berghahnbooks.com/samplers/ant...
On World #PhotographyDay, we suggest UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL IMAGES: Essays on Visual Methods and Teaching Anthropology by Marcus Banks, eds. David Zeitlyn & Chihab El Khachab ( @chihab.bsky.social): bit.ly/4omB0lN
Includes a #freetoread introduction + ebook currently 50% off!
#Theory #Methodology
File no. 2/1–555 from the Institute of Popular Culture, titled “Bills and Ministerial Decrees on the Establishment of the Institute (the Popular University) and its Board of Directors.” The document dates within this file range from 1945 to 1959.
New work by @chihab.bsky.social, "Notes on the Difficulty of Studying State #Archives in #Egypt," is out on FirstView!
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
📚 The first collected volume of Marcus Banks' essays, "Understanding Social Images", edited by David Zeitlyn & @chihab.bsky.social is now out with @berghahnbooks.bsky.social
Get a 50% discount using the following code until 31 July: BANK0066
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UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL IMAGES: Essays on Visual Methods and Teaching Anthropology by Marcus Banks, edited by David Zeitlyn and Chihab El Khachab (@chihab.bsky.social), has now been published!
Find out more here: bit.ly/3YOX0uG
#Theory #Methodology #MediaStudies
The first collected volume of Marcus Banks' essays, "Understanding Social Images", edited by David Zeitlyn and myself, is now out with Berghahn Books. You can get a 50% discount using the following code through their website until July 31st: BANK0066.
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ICYMI - Dr Chihab El Khachab @chihab.bsky.social (Associate Professor in Visual Anthropology) recently gave the Malinowski Memorial Lecture @lseanthropology.bsky.social:
'When ethnography becomes history'
📽️ Catch up on the recording: echo360.org.uk/media/b41d69...
Alumna activity ⬇️
Congratulations to @mariasalaru.bsky.social on the publication of 'An Anthropology of Architectural Transformation'! 👏
The book is based on research conducted during her DPhil at our School. Find out more:
Book cover of The Revolution Within: Islamic Media and the Struggle for a New Egypt by Yasmin Moll
Happy publication day to The Revolution Within by Yasmin Moll!
"Without exception or hyperbole, The Revolution Within is the best book I have ever read in the anthropology of Islam."
—James Bourk Hoesterey, Emory University
#ReadUP
www.sup.org/books/revolu...
Flyer with the following text: The Revolution Within Islamic Media and the Struggle for a New Egypt 0.4.16.2025, 4 PM, CupsnChai Ann Arbor 214 S 4th Ave Join the Global Islamic Studies Center at CupsnChai Ann Arbor on Wednesday April 16 at 4pm for the launch of Dr. Yasmin Moll's new book The Revolution Within: Islamic Media and the Struggle for a New Egypt. This event will be moderated by Dr. Andrew Shryock, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. Free chai & snacks will be provided!
4/16— Come enjoy the release of The Revolution Within: Islamic Media and the Struggle for a New Egypt by Yasmin Moll with a book launch hosted by the University of Michigan Global Islamic Studies Center at CupsnChai Ann Arbor. #ReadUP
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Delighted to be speaking on #PlantationWorlds at the #VitalGreenhouse Conference in Amsterdam today! Will include archival film of the Assam plantations! @dukepress.bsky.social
Lecturer in Middle Eastern History
UCL - History Department #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMJ128/l...
The first launch of #PlantationWorlds at @oxford-anthro.bsky.social, with Thomas Cousins, @lysalcayna.bsky.social and @chihab.bsky.social!
28 February: 16:00 onwards! All welcome! @dukepress.bsky.social
Please join us @oxford-anthro.bsky.social tomorrow for our second Department Seminar of the Term to hear Sandra Calkins talk on ‘The Undergrowth: Plotting human-plant futures from Uganda’
📣The 2024 edition of the Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford is out now!
Including:
- A new intro to E.E. Evans-Pritchard's 1970 lecture 'Some Reflections on Mysticism'
- An exploration of the contributions to anthropology of Prof Marcus Banks
More: www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/article/2024...
📕Book spotlight
Wondering what 2025 has in store?
Divination, Oracles & Omens co-edited by Prof David Zeitlyn (Professor of Social Anthropology) explores 24 global divinatory techniques - a companion to the current exhibition @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
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Thanks Emilie, hope you’re keeping well 😊 it’s been a journey but we’ll have more volumes out afterwards hopefully
@chihab.bsky.social also compiled an annotated bibliography of Marcus' complete works in the departmental journal of @oxford-anthro.bsky.social (JASO www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/sites/defaul... ).
The cover shows him shooting his only film in India in the 1980s, Raju and his Friends
In 2020, my DPhil supervisor, Prof Marcus Banks unexpectedly passed away. Today, Dr Chihab El Khachab and Prof David Zeitlyn announced that they have edited the first volume of his collected works which will come out June 2025.