Review of Zheng Yongnian’s title ‘The Chinese Communist Party as Organizational Emperorship: culture, reproduction and transformation’. Please give a few seconds for document to load from Scribd.
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Tiger Farm in China
A recent article in The Guardian relays another cable from wikileaks detailing an undercover visit by American embassy staff to a tiger farm near Guilin in Guizhou province in China. I visited there myself in mid 2009 and the article reminded me to write up a brief description of my experience there before I let it go any longer.
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Review of Kilminster’s Book on Norbert Elias
This is a book review (draft version) for the Journal of International Political Anthropology. Please check their website for free published version. Only quote and reference published version at IPA website.
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“Beauty” CFP by IPA Journal
The central concern is that of beauty and its role in culture, politics, and all realms of human social life. Beauty is to be considered as a central experience to human life. This, as the broad principle of the book, opens the field to allow for a variety of papers that focus on beauty across many different settings.
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IPA Summer School
Just back from an invigorating, stimulating and exhausting week in beautiful environs of Florence in Italy for the 3rd International Political Anthropology Summer School. This years theme was ‘Corruption’, an important theme for the times we live in, and a theme that was certainly brought to its fundamental theoretical foundations that will enrich each of …
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