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anthropology

James Davidson: Adrift from Locality · 3 November 2005

  • Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa by Marshall Sahlins  Buy this book

Adam Kuper: Off the Verandah · 7 October 2004

  • Malinowski: Odyssey of an Anthropologist 1884-1920 by Michael Young  Buy this book

James Hamilton-Paterson: Not Altogether Lost · 19 June 2003

  • Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday by Robin Hemley

Adam Kuper: Clever, or even Clever-Clever · 23 May 2002

  • Edmund Leach: An Anthropological Life by Stanley Tambiah
  • The Essential Edmund Leach: Vol. I: Anthropology and Society by Stephen Hugh-Jones and James Laidlaw
  • The Essential Edmund Leach: Vol. II: Culture and Human Nature by Stephen Hugh-Jones and James Laidlaw

Adam Kuper: Some Flim-Flam with Socks · 3 January 2002

  • Storyteller: The Many Lives of Laurens van der Post by J.D.F. Jones

Robin Fox: Anthropology as it should be · 9 August 2001

  • In the Arms of Africa: The Life of Colin Turnbull by Roy Richard Grinker

Paul Henley: A Generous Quantity of Fat · 2 September 1999

  • Man Corn: Cannibalism and Violence in the Prehistoric American South-West by Christy Turner and Jacqueline Turner
  • Cannibalism and the Colonial World edited by Francis Barker and Peter Hulme
  • Cannibals: The Discovery and Representation of the Cannibal from Columbus to Jules Verne by Frank Lestringant, translated by Rosemary Morris
  • Chronicles of the Guayakí Indians by Pierre Clastres, translated by Paul Auster

Eric Korn: How far down the dusky bosom? · 26 November 1998

  • The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin, edited by Paul Ekman

anti-semitism

Judith Butler: No, it’s not anti-semitic · 21 August 2003

archaeology

Thomas Jones: Short Cuts · 3 February 2005

Kathleen Jamie: Into the Dark · 18 December 2003

Mary Beard: Builder of Ruins · 30 November 2000

  • Minotaur: Sir Arthur Evans and the Archaeology of the Minoan Myth by J.A. MacGillivray

architecture

Peter Campbell: In the Park · 31 July 2008

Peter Campbell: At the Door · 19 June 2008

Rosemary Hill: Impervious to Draughts · 22 May 2008

  • The English House by Hermann Muthesius, edited by Dennis Sharp, translated by Janet Seligman and Stewart Spencer  Buy this book

Peter Campbell: Function v. Rhetoric · 10 April 2008

Gillian Darley: See the Sights! · 1 November 2007

  • The Buildings of England: Essex by James Bettley and Nikolaus Pevsner  Buy this book

Hal Foster: Global Style · 20 September 2007

  • Piano: Renzo Piano Building Workshop 1966-2005 by Philip Jodidio  Buy this book
  • Renzo Piano Building Workshop Vol. IV by Peter Buchanan  Buy this book

Dinah Birch: Very Pointed · 20 September 2007

Peter Campbell: The Way of the Wobble · 5 April 2007

  • Ove Arup: Masterbuilder of the 20th Century by Peter Jones  Buy this book

Peter Campbell: At the Barbican · 22 March 2007

Hal Foster: Wine Flasks in Bordeaux, Sail Spires in Cardiff · 19 October 2006

  • Richard Rogers: Architecture of the Future by Kenneth Powell  Buy this book
  • Richard Rogers: Complete Works, Vol. III by Kenneth Powell  Buy this book

Hal Foster: Go, Modernity · 22 June 2006

David Simpson: Looking back at the rubble · 25 May 2006

  • The Destruction of Memory: Architecture at War by Robert Bevan

Peter Campbell: At the Soane Museum · 11 May 2006

Andrew Saint: I had to refrain · 1 December 2005

  • Philip Webb: Pioneer of Arts and Crafts Architecture by Sheila Kirk  Buy this book

Peter Campbell: Open House · 6 October 2005

Peter Campbell: At Tate Modern (and elsewhere) · 21 July 2005

Andrew Saint: Swiping at Suburbs · 31 March 2005

Peter Campbell: In Port Sunlight · 20 January 2005

Hal Foster: It’s Modern but is it contemporary? · 16 December 2004

Peter Campbell: At Somerset House · 16 December 2004

Gillian Darley: Don’t teach me · 1 April 2004

  • Ernö Goldfinger: The Life of an Architect by Nigel Warburton

Peter Campbell: Restoring St. George’s · 20 November 2003

Gillian Darley: McNed · 17 April 2003

  • The Architect and His Wife: A Life of Edwin Lutyens by Jane Ridley
  • Edwin Lutyens, Country Houses: From the Archives of ‘Country Life’ by Gavin Stamp
  • Lutyens Abroad edited by Andrew Hopkins and Gavin Stamp

Hal Foster: In New York · 20 March 2003

Andrew Saint: In Le Havre · 6 February 2003

Peter Campbell: At the Whitechapel · 23 January 2003

Peter Campbell: Reading the Signs · 12 December 2002

Peter Campbell: At Salford Quays · 17 October 2002

Andrew Saint: The Danger of Giving In · 17 October 2002

  • An Architect of Promise: George Gilbert Scott Jr (1839-97) and the Late Gothic Revival by Gavin Stamp

Christopher Prendergast: Capital’s Capital · 3 October 2002

  • Haussmann: His Life and Times, and the Making of Modern Paris by Michel Carmona, translated by Patrick Camiller

Peter Campbell: In Venice · 6 June 2002

Hal Foster: Expendabilia · 9 May 2002

  • Reyner Banham: Historian of the Immediate Future by Nigel Whiteley

Peter Campbell: In New Zealand · 21 February 2002

Simon Schaffer: With Great Stomack · 21 February 2002

  • His Invention so Fertile: A Life of Christopher Wren by Adrian Tinniswood

Hal Foster: Bigness · 29 November 2001

  • Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping by Rem Koolhaas et al
  • Great Leap Forward by Rem Koolhaas et al

Gillian Darley: Nothing could have been odder or more prophetic · 29 November 2001

  • In Ruins by Christopher Woodward

Christopher Turner: Town-Cramming · 6 September 2001

  • Cities for a Small Country by Richard Rogers and Anne Power
  • Urban Futures 21: A Global Agenda for 21st-Century Cities by Peter Hall and Ulrich Pfeiffer

Rosemary Hill: Positively Spaced Out · 6 September 2001

  • The Buildings of England: A Celebration Compiled to Mark 50 Years of the Pevsner Architectural Guides edited by Simon Bradley and Bridget Cherry

Hal Foster: Why all the hoopla? · 23 August 2001

  • Frank Gehry: The Art of Architecture edited by Jean-Louis Cohen et al

Peter Campbell: In Soho · 24 May 2001

Hal Foster: Hey, that’s me · 5 April 2001

  • Life Style by Bruce Mau

Peter Campbell: Behind King’s Cross · 25 January 2001

Andrew Saint: What architects said before they said ‘space’ · 30 November 2000

  • Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture by Adrian Forty

Murray Sayle: In the Tart Shop · 5 October 2000

  • The Masterpiece: Jørn Utzon, a Secret Life by Philip Drew
  • Jørn Utzon: The Sydney Opera House by Françoise Fromonot, translated by Christopher Thompson

Andrew Saint: The Jubilee Line Extension · 20 January 2000

E.S. Turner: Gilded Drainpipes · 10 June 1999

  • The London Rich: The Creation of a Great City from 1666 to the Present by Peter Thorold
  • The Rise of the Nouveaux Riches: Style and Status in Victorian and Edwardian Architecture by Mordaunt Crook

Andrew Saint: How to Save the City-Dweller · 21 May 1998

  • Cities for a Small Planet by Richard Rogers

art

Peter Campbell: At the National Portrait Gallery · 11 September 2008

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