Emilie Le Febvre

Submissions are now open for the 2025 SAS Carol R. Ember Book Prize. This prize recognizes books whose significant theoretical, empirical, or methodological contributions to anthropology embody the mission of SAS to advance the scientific study of human societies.

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Photography and Making Bedouin Histories in the Naqab, 1906-2013: An Anthropological Approach Introducing a novel anthropological study of photography in the Middle East, Emilie Le Febvre takes us to the Naqab Desert where Bedouin use photographs to make, and respond to, their own histories. S...

Exciting news: My book Photography and Making Bedouin Histories is now available in paperback!
www.routledge.com/Photography-...

#anthropology #oxford_anthro #photohist #arthistory #history #visualculture #routledgebooks

Old black and white image of domed buildings in Cairo, with figures in the foreground, on a website entitled 'Digital Archive of the Middle East' (DAME) with tabs written in English, Arabic and Sorani Kurdish

To help make our archival materials more accessible, the Digital Archive of the Middle East (DAME) has made thousands of images & documents available online with metadata in English, Arabic and (where relevant) Sorani Kurdish:

dame.exeter.ac.uk

#InternationalArchivesDay #ArchivesAreAccessible

This amazing book just came out, and I received my author’s copy. It has been a massive collaborative affair with many authors and fantastic editors and coordinators. Congratulations to all! I can’t wait to dig into the 567 (!) pages.
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#photoconservation
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#amazing

PhD Studentship - Rural and Tribal History of the Modern Middle East (c.1870-c.1945) at University College Dublin Apply for a PhD Studentship - Rural and Tribal History of the Modern Middle East (c.1870-c.1945). Discover a wide range of PhD opportunities at jobs.ac.uk.

Fully funded PhD scholarship in Dublin on Rural and Tribal History of the Modern Middle East (c.1870-c.1945), lead supervisor M. Talha Çiçek: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMR712/p...

Books for review in Contemporary Levant This table lists books that are open for review in Contemporary Levant. We are a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed academic journal covering, broadly speaking, the history, culture, politics, society, e...

Looking for a new read? The list of books we'd like reviewing for Contemporary Levant is here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Subjects include Syrian charities, German Jewish scholars of the 'orient', Lebanese street art, Arab leftists in the USSR, Palestine's Nabi Musa festival, and many more...

Methods 4 All This methods4all channel is funded by the National Science Foundation in partnership with the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology, and an ever-growing list of...

In collaboration with 6 global partners & with support from our distinguished faculty, we are proud to offer 50 free lectures spanning 15 methods modules. These lectures provide innovative instruction on various mixed methods used in anthropology & allied fields (www.youtube.com/@methods4all_)

This volume was the result of a Photo Archives IV conference @ox.ac.uk (2017) podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/photo...

In Photo Archives and the Place of Photography #anthropology #arthistory #photohist

Photo Archives and the Place of Photography This collection of chapterss investigates the effects of mobility and place on a range of photographic archives and explores their potential for cross-disciplinary dialogue. The book explores photogra...

Coming soon! New book chapter - Reciprocating Place: Photo Archives and Bedouin in the Naqab Desert - www.routledge.com/Photo-Archiv...

Associate Professorship in the History of Contemporary Art with a Tutorial Fellowship at University of Oxford An academic position as a Associate Professorship in the History of Contemporary Art with a Tutorial Fellowship is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional...

Associate Professorship in the History of Contemporary Art with a Tutorial Fellowship- University of Oxford - Department of History of Art / Faculty of History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLM069/a...

Clinton Bailey Archive of Bedouin Culture The National Library is home to a unique research collection documenting the rich oral culture of Bedouin communities in Israel, Jordan, and the Sinai desert.

Remembering Prof Clinton Bailey, a renowned expert on Bedouin culture and poetry. He created one of the largest archives of Naqab and Sinai Bedouin oral history.

www.nli.org.il/en/at-your-s...

@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... ).

The cover shows him shooting his only film in India in the 1980s, Raju and his Friends

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.

Oracles, Omens and Answers Free exhibition at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford. Discover how people have sought answers to life’s big questions throughout history

Find out how humans have sought answers to life’s big questions at the NEW @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social exhibition 'Oracles, Omens and Answers'
Co-curated by David Zeitlyn (Professor of Social Anthropology) the exhibition explores the world of divination.
🔗 visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/oracle...

I think it would have to be 'Photography and Making Bedouin Histories in the Naqab, 1906-2013' by @emilieklefebvre.bsky.social for #RoutledgeHistory for me this year

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History Anthropology and history are inseparable, sharing concerns with societies other than the one we currently inhabit—whether in time or in space. This entry considers how the relation between anthropolog...

Entry from the archive: #History (and #Anthropology) by Prof. Eric Hirsch www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/history

Call for ethnographic films!
#anthropology #film

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Co-panel w/ Prof Aref Abu Rabia, ‘Curating Desert Cultures’ at The Royal Anthropology Institute’s Anthropology and Education conference (2024), University of London.

Israel demolishes last mosque in Bedouin village in Negev desert Israel this morning bulldozed the last remaining building in the Umm Al-Hiran Bedouin village of the Negev (Naqab) desert, a mosque, to make way for the construction of Jewish-only settlements.

Regional Council for Unrecognised Bedouin Villages in the Negev spokesperson condemned the demolition of the Bedouin village of Umm Al-Hiran in the Negev desert, as "another chapter in the ethnic cleansing and expulsion of Arabs in this country."

www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241114-isr...

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#41 Photo albums | View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture CFP for 41 issue of View: Photoalbums

For its 41st iteration, a special issue dealing with photo albums, the journal “View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture” is looking for contributions. Submissions are due on December 10, 2024. Here is the call for papers:

Unesco calls for emergency session to protect Lebanese heritage sites Israeli strikes across southern and eastern Lebanon have damaged and threatened several important monuments, while Baalbek remains in peril

UNESCO to demand protection for Lebanon's historic monuments, not least the ruins at #Baalbek, which are threatened by Israeli actions. www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/11/07/u...

‘A visual testament to Palestinian society’: inside a powerful new photography book Timely new book Against Erasure shows the ‘breadth and richness’ of Palestine before the Nakba in 1948 when 750,000 people were forced from their homes

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Call for Papers | Displaying the British Museum: Past, Present, Future

British Museum, London
Conference: Thursday 20–Friday 21 February 2025
Deadline to apply: Friday 30 August 2024
Info: britishartnetwork.org.uk/uncategorise...

My new book! Photography and Making Bedouin Histories in the Naqab, 1906-2013: An Anthropological Approach |Routledge|

#bedouin #naqab #photohist #visualanthro #anthropology #middleeasthistory