Wednesday 16:00-16:30 Laurie Taylor discusses the latest social science research.
11 March 2009 repeat 15 March
AMERICAN WEST
The great American West where ‘savagery met civilisation and boys became men’. To find out how the myth was made, Laurie Taylor is joined by Karen Jones and John Wills, Lecturers in American History at the University of Kent and co-authors The American West: Competing Visions.
GARDEN LOVE
A new article in the journal of the Royal Anthropological Society reveals the enduring relationships that exist between plants and human beings. Its author, Cathrine Degnen, lecturer in Social anthropology at Newcastle University, talks about the findings of her research on “Vegetable Love” in the north of England, and its implications for ideas about the human relationship to nature.
Additional information:
Dr John Wills
Lecturer in American History, Rutherford College, University of Kent
Dr Karen Jones
Lecturer in American History and Director of American Studies at Kent University
The American West: Competing Visions
by Karen Jones (Author), John Wills (Author)
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN-10: 0748622527
ISBN-13: 978-0748622528
Dr Cathrine Degnen
Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Newcastle University
