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Book Review - Fishing and Shipwreck Heritage: Marine Archaeology’s Greatest Threat? by Sean A. Kingsley
Sean A. Kingsley. (2016). Fishing and Shipwreck Heritage: Marine Archaeology’s Greatest Threat? Bloomsbury Publishing. Book review by Heba Fatima Sean A. Kingsley is a marine archaeologist, historian and the Director of Wreck Watch International, a consulting firm that focuses on the protection of maritime heritage against threats across the globe. He has authored several books on underwater heritage, maritime trade and shipwrecks. Fishing and Shipwreck Heritage: Marine Archa
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Book Review - Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics and Song in Kaluli Expression by Steven Feld
Steven Feld. (1990, second ed.) Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics and Song in Kaluli Expression. University of Pennsylvania Press. Book review by Heba Fatima, Lecturer in English, Birupa College (affiliated to Utkal University, Odisha) Steven Feld is an American anthropologist, ethnomusicologist and sound artist known for his research on the Kaluli people of Papua New Guinea. The Kaluli are a group of indigenous people residing in the rain forest regions near Mt.
May 273 min read
Book Review - Pacific Literatures as World Literature, edited by Hsinya Huang and Chia-hua Yvonne Lin
Huang, Hsinya, and Chia-hua Yvonne Lin, eds. Pacific Literatures as World Literature. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2023. Book Review by Shane Gomes, Tennessee State University The collection Pacific Literatures as World Literatures is an ambitious volume that actively tries to define how cultural texts from Oceania[1] should be incorporated into the corpus collectively known as “World Literature” while addressing the specific concerns of the geography, history, and cultures of
May 278 min read
Book Review - The Spiral of Silence: Public Opinion-Our Social Skin by Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann
Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann. (1993). The Spiral of Silence: Public Opinion-Our Social Skin, 2nd ed. The University of Chicago Press. Book review by Shadab Zaveri The Spiral of Silence: Public Opinion-Our Social Skin, second edition, by Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann was published in 1993, and the first edition released in 1984. The book is extremely important in media and communication studies, as the theoretical concept of The Spiral of Silence (1993) offers insights into how public
May 243 min read
Book Review - Health, Healing, and Illness in African History by Rebekah Lee
Rebekah Lee. (2021). Health, Healing, and Illness in African History. Bloomsbury Publishing. Book review by Protichi Chatterjee Rebekah Lee, currently employed at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, specialises in the biomedical history of sub-Saharan Africa. Her latest publication Health, Healing, and Illness in African History (2021) synthesises her classroom teaching and archival research on sub-Saharan public cultures of illness and healing in two parts. Part O
Apr 303 min read
Book Review - Female Body Image and Beauty Politics in Contemporary Indian Literature and Culture
Srirupa Chatterjee and Shweta Rao Garg, ed. Female Body Image and Beauty Politics in Contemporary Indian Literature and Culture . Temple University Press, 2024 Book review by Debadrita Saha, Ashoka University The economic liberalisation of India in 1991 “transformed its economic policies from the erstwhile License Raj, or the control economy”, to embrace laissez-faire capitalism (Garg 234). Female Body Image and Beauty Politics in Contemporary Indian Literature and Culture ,
Mar 84 min read
Book Review - Gender-Based Violence in Arts and Culture: Perspectives on Education and Work
Marie Buscatto, Sari Karttunen, and Mathilde Provansal, ed. Gender-Based Violence in Arts and Culture: Perspectives on Education and Work . Open Book Publishers, 2025. Book review by Debadrita Saha, Ashoka University In the aftermath of the #MeToo movement in the Hollywood film industry, the origins of which can be traced to the exposure of Harvey Weinstein’s sexual crimes by women survivors in October 2017, artistic and cultural sectors across the world faced a reckonin
Jan 85 min read
Book Review - Tea Fit For A Queen: Recipes & Drinks For Afternoon Tea
Tea Fit For A Queen: Recipes & Drinks For Afternoon Tea Published in association with Historic Royal Palaces Book review by Hannah Sophie Schiffner Tea Fit For A Queen is not only a cookbook. It is a guide through the history of England and its royal houses. The introduction by Lucy Worsley, Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces in Britain, explores tea’s evolution from a novel and expensive drink to its prominent role in everyday British life. She delves further into
Dec 22, 20253 min read
Aimee Loiselle’s Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class Wins the 2023 Peter C. Rollins Book Prize
The Northeast Popular Culture Association is proud to honor Aimee Loiselle’s Beyond Norma Rae with the 2023 Peter C. Rollins Book Prize....
Sep 20, 20251 min read
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