SOAS Research Online

Authored Books

Basu, Paul (2007) Highland Homecomings: Genealogy and Heritage-Tourism in the Scottish Diaspora. London: Routledge.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Basu, Paul, ed. (2017) The Inbetweenness of Things: Materializing Mediation and Movement between Worlds. London: Bloomsbury.

Basu, Paul and De Jong, Ferdinand, eds. (2016) Utopian Archives, Decolonial Affordances. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. (Social Anthropology - Volume 24, Issue 1)

Basu, Paul and Modest, Wayne, eds. (2015) Museums, Heritage, and International Development. New York and London: Routledge. (Routledge Studies in Culture and Development)

Basu, Paul and Coleman, Simon, eds. (2010) Pathways to Anthropology. Oxford: Berghahn. (Special issue of Anthropology in Action 17(2-3))

Basu, Paul and Coleman, Simon, eds. (2008) Migrant Worlds, Material Cultures, special issue of Mobilities 3(3). London: Taylor and Francis.

Basu, Paul and Macdonald, Sharon, eds. (2007) Exhibition Experiments. Oxford: Blackwell.

Book Chapters

Basu, Paul (2017) 'The Inbetweenness of Things.' In: Basu, Paul, (ed.), The Inbetweenness of Things: Materializing Mediation and Movement between Worlds. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 1-20.

Basu, Paul (2015) 'Reanimating Cultural Heritage: Digital Curatorship, Knowledge Networks and Social Transformation in Sierra Leone.' In: Coombes, Annie and Phillips, Ruth B., (eds.), International Handbooks of Museum Studies, Volume IV: Museum Transformations. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 337-364.

Basu, Paul and Zetterstrom-Sharp, Johanna (2015) 'Complicating Culture for Development: Negotiating 'Dysfunctional Heritage' in Sierra Leone.' In: Basu, Paul and Modest, Wayne, (eds.), Museums, Heritage and International Development. New York; London: Routledge, pp. 56-82. (Routledge Studies in Culture and Development)

Basu, Paul and Modest, Wayne (2015) 'Museums, Heritage and Development: A Critical Conversation.' In: Basu, Paul and Modest, Wayne, (eds.), Museums, Heritage and International Development. New York; London: Routledge, pp. 1-32. (Routledge Studies in Culture and Development)

Basu, Paul (2013) 'Memoryscapes and Multi-Sited Methods: Researching Cultural Memory in Sierra Leone.' In: Keightley, E. and Pickering, M., (eds.), Research Methods for Memory Studies. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 115-131.

Basu, Paul (2013) 'Material Culture: Ancestries and Trajectories in Material Culture Studies.' In: Carrier, James and Gewertz, D. B., (eds.), Handbook of Sociocultural Anthropology. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 370-390.

Basu, Paul (2012) 'Cairns in the Landscape: Migrant Stones and Migrant Stories in Scotland and its Diaspora.' In: Árnason, Arnar, Ellison, Nicolas, Vergunst, Jo and Whitehouse, Andrew, (eds.), Landscapes beyond land: routes, aesthetics, narratives. New York; Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 116-138. (EASA)

Basu, Paul (2012) 'A museum for Sierra Leone? Amateur enthusiasms and colonial museum policy in British West Africa.' In: Longair, Sarah and McAleer, John, (eds.), Curating Empire: Museums and the British Imperial Experience. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 145-167. (Studies in Imperialism)

Basu, Paul (2008) 'Reframing Ethnographic Film.' In: Austin, Thomas and de Jong, Wilma, (eds.), Rethinking Documentary: New Perspectives and Practices. Maidenhead, UK: Open University Press, pp. 94-106.

Basu, Paul and Macdonald, Sharon (2007) 'Experiments in Exhibition, Ethnography, Art and Science.' In: Macdonald, Sharon and Basu, Paul, (eds.), Exhibition Experiments. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 1-24.

Basu, Paul (2007) 'The Labyrinthine Aesthetic in Contemporary Museum Design.' In: Macdonald, Sharon and Basu, Paul, (eds.), Exhibition Experiments. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 47-70.

Basu, Paul (2007) 'Palimpsest Memoryscapes: Materializing and Mediating War and Peace in Sierra Leone.' In: De Jong, Ferdinand and Rowlands, Michael, (eds.), Reclaiming Heritage: Alternative Imaginaries of Memory in West Africa. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, pp. 231-259.

Basu, Paul (2004) 'Route Metaphors of Roots-Tourism in the Scottish Diaspora.' In: Coleman, Simon and Eade, John, (eds.), Reframing Pilgrimage: Cultures in Motion. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, pp. 150-174.

Journal Article

Basu, Paul (2016) 'Anthropology education and public engagement: Where do we go from here?' Anthropology Today, 32 (2). pp. 4-5.

Basu, Paul (2016) 'N. W. Thomas and Colonial Anthropology in British West Africa: Reappraising a Cautionary Tale.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 22 (1). pp. 84-107.

Basu, Paul and De Jong, Ferdinand (2016) 'Utopian Archives, Decolonial Affordances: Introduction to Special Issue.' Social Anthropology, 24 (1). pp. 5-19.

Basu, Paul and Damodaran, Vinita (2015) 'Colonial Histories of Heritage: Legislative Migrations and the Politics of Preservation.' Past and Present, 223 (10). pp. 239-270.

Basu, Paul (2013) 'Recasting the National Narrative: Postcolonial Pastiche and the New Sierra Leone Peace and Cultural Monument.' African Arts, 46 (3). pp. 10-25.

Basu, Paul (2011) 'Object Diasporas, Resourcing Communities: Sierra Leonean Collections in the Global Museumscape.' Museum Anthropology, 34 (1). pp. 28-42.

Basu, Paul and Coleman, Simon (2010) 'Culture, identity, difference: developing a museum-based anthropology education resource for pre-university students.' Anthropology in Action, 17 (2-3). pp. 87-104.

Basu, Paul and Coleman, Simon (2010) 'Pathways to Anthropology.' Anthropology in Action, 17 (2-3). pp. 1-7.

Basu, Paul (2008) 'Confronting the Past? Negotiating a Heritage of Conflict in Sierra Leone.' The Journal of Material Culture, 13 (2). pp. 233-247.

Basu, Paul and Coleman, Simon (2008) 'Introduction: Migrant Worlds, Material Cultures.' Mobilities, 3 (3). pp. 313-330.

Basu, Paul (2005) 'Macpherson Country: Genealogical Identities, Spatial Histories and the Scottish Diasporic Clanscape.' cultural geographies, 12 (2). pp. 123-150.

Basu, Paul (2005) 'Museum, Landscape and the Storytelling Space Between.' Landscape and Arts, 34/35. pp. 2-6.

Basu, Paul (2004) 'My Own Island Home: The Orkney Homecoming.' The Journal of Material Culture, 9 (1). pp. 27-42.

Other

Basu, Paul (2018) '[Re:]Entanglements : multi-component portfolio including website, blog articles, film, audio, exhibitions, public engagement activities, journal article, collections-based research, creative collaborations and catalogue dataset enhancement.' [Re:]Entanglements.