British Academy Lectures, 2016-17

For over 100 years, the British Academy's public lectures have communicated the best scholarship in the humanities and social sciences to both specialists and general audiences. This volume publishes lectures from the 2016 and 2017 programmes. The lectures are also made available in the open access Journal of the British Academy.

List of contents

• Penal Power in America: Forms, Functions and Foundations


• Stages of Papal Law


• Whatever Happened to Lifelong Learning? And does it Matter?


• The UK's Changing Party System: The Prospects for a Party Realignment at Westminster


• Globalisation and Wage Inequality


• The Stress Test: Can Stress Ever Be Beneficial?


• The Duty to Be Generous (Karam): Alternatives to Rights-Based Asylum in the Middle East


• Some Turns in a 'Journey to the West': Cosmological Proliferation in an Anthropology of Eurasia

About the author

Janet Carsten is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh.

Simon Frith is Tovey Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh.

Summary

For over 100 years, the British Academy's public lectures have communicated the best scholarship in the humanities and social sciences to both specialists and general audiences. This volume publishes lectures from the 2016 and 2017 programmes. The lectures are also made available in the open access Journal of the British Academy.

Product details

• Authors: Janet (EDT)/ Frith Carsten, Janet (Professor of Social and Cultural A Carsten
• Assisted by: Janet Carsten (Editor), Janet (Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology Carsten (Editor), Carsten Janet (Editor), Simon Frith (Editor), Simon (Tovey Professor of Music Frith (Editor), Frith Simon (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9780197266236
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726623-6
• No. of pages: 356
• Series: British Academy Lectures Series; British Academy Lectures Series; British Academy Lectures; Journal of the British Academy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Society & social sciences, Humanities, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, History and Archaeology, Society and Social Sciences