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One set of virtual footprints: a collective cyber-pilgrimage (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Miles-Watson, J., & Asimos, V. (2016, December). One set of virtual footprints: a collective cyber-pilgrimage. Paper presented at ASA16: Footprints and futures: the time of anthropology, Durham, UK

Salsamenta pictavensium: Gastronomy and Medicine in Twelfth-Century England (2016)
Journal Article
Gasper, G. E., & Wallis, F. (2016). Salsamenta pictavensium: Gastronomy and Medicine in Twelfth-Century England. The English Historical Review, 131(553), 1353-1385. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cex013

This article presents a collection of culinary recipes from a manuscript produced in England from the later twelfth century. The suite of ten recipes for ‘Poitou sauces’ or ‘Poitou relishes’ (salsamenta pictavensium—literally ‘of the Poitevins’) to g... Read More about Salsamenta pictavensium: Gastronomy and Medicine in Twelfth-Century England.

Teachings of Tara: Sacred place and human wellbeing in the Shimla hills (2016)
Journal Article
Miles-Watson, J. (2016). Teachings of Tara: Sacred place and human wellbeing in the Shimla hills. Anthropology in Action: Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice, 23(3), 30-42. https://doi.org/10.3167/aia.2016.230304

This article presents the case for a rethinking of the academy’s approach to sacred space through a demonstration of the way that a focus on unskilled actors reconfigures established approaches and interpretations. The article opens with an auto-ethn... Read More about Teachings of Tara: Sacred place and human wellbeing in the Shimla hills.

Book Review: Jean Buridan, Treatise on Consequences. Translated with an introduction by Stephen Read, editorial introduction by Hubert Hubien. New York: Fordham University Press, 2015, pp. 185. ISBN 978-0-8232-5718-8 (hardback), $45 (2016)
Journal Article
Uckelman, S. L. (2016). Book Review: Jean Buridan, Treatise on Consequences. Translated with an introduction by Stephen Read, editorial introduction by Hubert Hubien. New York: Fordham University Press, 2015, pp. 185. ISBN 978-0-8232-5718-8 (hardback), $45. Studia Logica, 104(6), 1319-1323. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11225-016-9693-9

‘It is unseemly to be famous’: Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, and the melodramatic dynamics of the myth of the Russian poet in Russia and the West (2016)
Journal Article
Harrington, A. (2016). ‘It is unseemly to be famous’: Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, and the melodramatic dynamics of the myth of the Russian poet in Russia and the West. Celebrity Studies, 7(4), 509-525. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2016.1233769

Russian literary celebrity of the Soviet era is conditioned by specific factors that challenge key assumptions in scholarship focused on western culture. These factors (which include stringent censorship, doctrinaire cultural policy, and samizdat) an... Read More about ‘It is unseemly to be famous’: Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, and the melodramatic dynamics of the myth of the Russian poet in Russia and the West.