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

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 www.berghahnbooks.com/title/BanksU...

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. www.berghahnbooks.com/title/BanksU...

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:

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...

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 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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 bodleianshop.co.uk/products/div...

@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... ).

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.