Chihab El Khachab | شهاب الخشاب
chihab.bsky.social
Chihab El Khachab | شهاب الخشاب
@chihab.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Visual Anthropology, University of Oxford | New book in English: http://bit.ly/37nV4OW | New book in Arabic: https://tinyurl.com/ne2xd5yh
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Dip into some 'key readings' in anthropology, compiled by
@berghahnbooks.bsky.social from its leading titles⬇️
Featuring Prof David Zeitlyn (Professor of Social Anthropology) & @chihab.bsky.social (Associate Professor in Visual Anthropology)
Info: www.berghahnbooks.com/samplers/ant...
anthropology key readings | Berghahn Books
Independent Publishing since 1994
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September 11, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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On World #PhotographyDay, we suggest UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL IMAGES: Essays on Visual Methods and Teaching Anthropology by Marcus Banks, eds. David Zeitlyn & Chihab El Khachab ( @chihab.bsky.social): bit.ly/4omB0lN

Includes a #freetoread introduction + ebook currently 50% off!

#Theory #Methodology
August 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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New work by @chihab.bsky.social, "Notes on the Difficulty of Studying State #Archives in #Egypt," is out on FirstView!

doi.org/10.1017/S001...
July 28, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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📚 The first collected volume of Marcus Banks' essays, "Understanding Social Images", edited by David Zeitlyn & @chihab.bsky.social is now out with @berghahnbooks.bsky.social

Get a 50% discount using the following code until 31 July: BANK0066

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June 19, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL IMAGES: Essays on Visual Methods and Teaching Anthropology by Marcus Banks, edited by David Zeitlyn and Chihab El Khachab (@chihab.bsky.social), has now been published!

Find out more here: bit.ly/3YOX0uG

#Theory #Methodology #MediaStudies
June 12, 2025 at 11:04 AM
The first collected volume of Marcus Banks' essays, "Understanding Social Images", edited by David Zeitlyn and myself, is now out with Berghahn Books. You can get a 50% discount using the following code through their website until July 31st: BANK0066.

www.berghahnbooks.com/title/BanksU...
Understanding Social Images: Essays on Visual Methods and Teaching Anthropology | Berghahn Books
Independent Publishing since 1994
www.berghahnbooks.com
June 12, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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ICYMI - Dr Chihab El Khachab @chihab.bsky.social (Associate Professor in Visual Anthropology) recently gave the Malinowski Memorial Lecture @lseanthropology.bsky.social:
'When ethnography becomes history'
📽️ Catch up on the recording: echo360.org.uk/media/b41d69...
Malinowski Memorial Lecture 2025
echo360.org.uk
June 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Alumna activity ⬇️
Congratulations to @mariasalaru.bsky.social on the publication of 'An Anthropology of Architectural Transformation'! 👏
The book is based on research conducted during her DPhil at our School. Find out more:
April 4, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Happy publication day to The Revolution Within by Yasmin Moll!

"Without exception or hyperbole, The Revolution Within is the best book I have ever read in the anthropology of Islam."

—James Bourk Hoesterey, Emory University

#ReadUP

www.sup.org/books/revolu...
April 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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4/16— Come enjoy the release of The Revolution Within: Islamic Media and the Struggle for a New Egypt by Yasmin Moll with a book launch hosted by the University of Michigan Global Islamic Studies Center at CupsnChai Ann Arbor. #ReadUP

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March 31, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Delighted to be speaking on #PlantationWorlds at the #VitalGreenhouse Conference in Amsterdam today! Will include archival film of the Assam plantations! @dukepress.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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Lecturer in Middle Eastern History 
UCL - History Department #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMJ128/l...
Lecturer in Middle Eastern History  at UCL
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March 20, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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The first launch of #PlantationWorlds at @oxford-anthro.bsky.social, with Thomas Cousins, @lysalcayna.bsky.social and @chihab.bsky.social!

28 February: 16:00 onwards! All welcome! @dukepress.bsky.social
February 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Please join us @oxford-anthro.bsky.social tomorrow for our second Department Seminar of the Term to hear Sandra Calkins talk on ‘The Undergrowth: Plotting human-plant futures from Uganda’
January 30, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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📣The 2024 edition of the Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford is out now!
Including:
- A new intro to E.E. Evans-Pritchard's 1970 lecture 'Some Reflections on Mysticism'
- An exploration of the contributions to anthropology of Prof Marcus Banks
More: www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/article/2024...
2024 edition of the Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford out now
www.anthro.ox.ac.uk
January 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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📕Book spotlight
Wondering what 2025 has in store?
Divination, Oracles & Omens co-edited by Prof David Zeitlyn (Professor of Social Anthropology) explores 24 global divinatory techniques - a companion to the current exhibition @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
bodleianshop.co.uk/products/div...
Divination, Oracles & Omens
A spellbinding collection of twenty-four divinatory techniques from around the world exploring our need to appeal to powers beyond our realm for prediction and clarification.   The past, present and f...
bodleianshop.co.uk
January 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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@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... ).
www.anthro.ox.ac.uk
January 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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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.
January 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM