Salma Siddique is an academic and clinical anthropologist in Scotland. She obtained her doctorate anthropology from the University of St. Andrews later became a practicing psychotherapist supervisor. honorary lecturer at teaches psychoanalytical anthropology. lectured for five years psychotherapy Aberdeen ten before that across disciplines mental health complementary alternative Edinburgh Napie...

Scouring a bookshop in Havana, Cuba, I came across Olive Senior's poem Colonial Girls’ School.1Senior O girls school.in: Ellis K Poetas del Caribe anglophóno. Casa las Américas, Havana2011: 105Google Scholar It teleported me to my mother's and aunts’ musings about their colonial girls’ schools. Borrowed imageswilled our skins palemuffled laughter […]dekinked hairdenied sex gym tunics bloomers [...

Much recent political commentary suggests that a “backlash,” “revolt,” or “counter-revolution” is unfolding against liberal constitutional democracy (e.g., Eatwell & Goodwin, 2018; Galston, 2020; Mounk, Norris Inglehart, 2019; Zielonka, 2018). As generalizable observation about contemporary politics, this diagnosis perhaps unduly alarmist Przeworski, 2019). In some countries, however, sustained...

Roy Wagner at University of Virginia in 2009. (Photograph by Johannes Neurath) Wagner, a visionary theorist cultural meaning and creativity, died on September 10, 2018, his home Charlottesville, Virginia. He was known for work kinship, ritual, myth Papua New Guinea experiments representing anthropological thought as “reciprocity perspectives” that helped to inspire the “ontological turn” well r...

Anthropologists have spilt much ink deconstructing concepts inherited from the Enlightenment. Religion, possibly most misleading such concept, has proved highly resistant to acid of cross-cultural comparison. Debates about nature religion go back sociocultural anthropology's beginnings as a discipline and beyond. Proposed definitions been numerous, but none come close universal acceptance, main...

‘Dealing with ambiguity’ has become a pressing concern in many spheres of contemporary life, often presented as ‘survival skill’ an uncertain world. Working ambiguity also plays crucial role the musical pedagogy Ottoman-Turkish ney (Sufi reed flute), playing which I discuss this article. Rather than constraint or deficiency to be resolved, context apprenticeship, emerges desired pedagogical for...

A remarkable feature of basic care and initial learning to children 0-8 years is its amazing worldwide diversity. Rights-based ‘positioning’ legitimates its multicultural forms. Colonization with Western institutionalization, educationalization and economization of childhood has problematised non-Western ECCEs, while identity rights and inherent apprehensions remain mostly unspoken. Claim of su...

S Music and the Moving Image, May 31-June 2, 2013 NYU Steinhardt, Dept. Music and Performing Arts Professions, Program in Scoring for Film and Multimedia 1. FRIDAY, May 31, 9:30 11:00 AM Frederick Loewe Theatre Music Production Libraries: The Craft and the Business Doug Wood, President of Omnimusic & ASCAP Board Member Respondents: Ron Sadoff, Jeff Smith, Elisabeth Weis 2. Friday, May 31, 11:30...