麻豆社

27/01/2010

The Brits who stayed on in Hong Kong.

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03/02/2010

Laurie Taylor explores national branding and the commodification of ethnic identity.

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10/02/2010

African American consumer culture and the history of tea.

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17/02/2010

A history of Intellectual piracy; the morality of obesity.

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24/02/2010

Corridors under threat and is 'living apart together' a new form of family?

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03/03/2010

The secret history of the servant and the working class at Oxbridge.

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10/03/2010

The meaning of military futurology, and anti-racist comedy in the UK and US.

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17/03/2010

Laurie Taylor discusses milk and modernity, and why burglary is going out of fashion.

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24/03/2010

Book fairs and the Bow Street Runners.

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31/03/2010

Sexuality in later life and interracial relationships in Latin America.

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07/04/2010

Is the secular world under threat? Discussing new demographics and the future of belief.

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14/04/2010

Is the British weekend under threat? Plus new research on home education.

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Inequality and nakedness

A brief history of nakedness - its role in politics, protest and popular culture.

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Capitalism and Development

Laurie Taylor discusses capitalism with leading economists David Harvey and Ha Joon Chang.

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Dective tours and Russian organised crime

From Morse to Wallander, the anthropology of the detective tour. Plus criminals in Russia.

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Evacuation

The social impact of sending millions from the cities to the country during WWII.

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19/05/2010

New research revealing the rifts and resentment created by researching family history.

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26/05/2010

Has black music declined? Laurie Taylor discusses with Paul Gilroy and Caspar Melville.

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02/06/2010

Laurie Taylor explores the relationship of language to culture with AC Grayling.

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09/06/2010

The changing way we commemorate the dead: a study of the war in Afghanistan.

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Fanaticism

Fanaticism: use and abuse of a wild idea. Laurie Taylor talks to John Gray.

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Social Capital

Is the buzz phrase 'social capital' a big mistake? Also, what it means to be a twin.

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Subcultures

Girly pop and heavy metal: Laurie Taylor visits a university conference on sub-cultures.

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Niall Ferguson on financier Siegmund Warburg

Niall Ferguson tells Laurie Taylor about his new book on financier Siegmund Warburg.

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Physiognomy and Teenage music

Do facial features indicate moral character? Laurie explores the culture of physiognomy.

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Lap dancing - Climate change

Rachela Colosi tells Laurie about her detailed ethnography of a lap dancing club.

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Oslo drug dealers - Choice

How does having more choice affect our lives? Laurie Taylor discusses a new study.

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Robots and gender - Economic progress

Laurie Taylor hears why growth is good for all. Plus the rise of the fembot.

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Disenchantment

The impact of the rational: Laurie Taylor explores the social concept of 'Disenchantment'.

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Black Emancipation

Laurie Taylor discusses emancipation, ideas of black freedom from slavery to the present.

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