British Academy Lectures 2012-13
Published on 27. February 2014
Book
Hardback
300 pages
978-0-19-726566-6 (ISBN)
Description
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 and are also printed in an annual volume. This volume publishes 8 lectures from the 2012 and 2013 programmes, which were posted to the Journal in 2013.
The subjects covered include early 20th-century ethnographic research among the Andaman Islanders and Polar Eskimos, the Scottish Mental Surveys of 1932 and 1947, Edward Lear's nonsense poetry, university authors' rights and the end of the British Empire in India.
The editors are Professors Janet Carsten and Simon Frith, who are both Fellows of the British Academy. The authors are all recognised experts in their fields within the humanities and social sciences and the texts published here have been rigorously peer-reviewed.
The subjects covered include early 20th-century ethnographic research among the Andaman Islanders and Polar Eskimos, the Scottish Mental Surveys of 1932 and 1947, Edward Lear's nonsense poetry, university authors' rights and the end of the British Empire in India.
The editors are Professors Janet Carsten and Simon Frith, who are both Fellows of the British Academy. The authors are all recognised experts in their fields within the humanities and social sciences and the texts published here have been rigorously peer-reviewed.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
c. 25 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 247 mm
Width: 174 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
504 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-726566-6 (9780197265666)
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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)
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)