British Academy Lectures

Herausgeber: Carsten, Janet; Frith, Simon

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

British Academy lectures have previously been published in the Proceedings of the British Academy. Lectures are now made available in the new open access Journal of the British Academy. But they will also be printed in an annual volume. This volume publishes xx lectures from the 2012 and 2013 programmes, which were posted to the Journal in 2013.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• 2012-2013 edition
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780197265666
• ISBN-10: 0197265669
• Artikelnr.: 40137805

Autorenporträt

Janet Carsten is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Edinburgh. Simon Frith is Tovey Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh.

Inhaltsangabe

* Andaman Islanders and Polar Eskimos: emergent ethnographic subjects
c. 1900 (Radcliffe-Brown Lecture in Social Anthropology)
* Edward Lear's lines of flight (Chatterton Lecture on Poetry)
* 'All the world's knowledge': Universal authors' rights (British
Academy Law Lecture)
* An intelligent Scotland: Professor Sir Godfrey Thomson and the
Scottish Mental Surveys of 1932 and 1947 (Joint BA/British
Psychological Society Lecture)
* The end of Empire in India revisited (Raleigh Lecture on History)
* The appeal of fundamentalism (British Academy Lecture)
* Parts of speech: solid citizens or slippery customers? (Philological
Society Lecture)
* Ronald Reagan and the re-constitution of American hegemony (Elie
Kedourie Memorial Lecture)
* The Greek War of Independence in a global era (Sarah Tryphena
Phillips Lecture in American History)
* Between art and science: music as performance (Aspects of Art
Lecture)
* Can leaders make a difference to organisational performance? (Sir
John Cass's Foundation Lecture)
* The sanctuary at Keros: questions of materiality and monumentality
(Albert Reckitt Archaeological Lecture)
* Imitations of Christ in 17th-century France: Some attendant
difficulties (Lecture in Modern Languages)