Shopping is next to godliness
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Professor of anthropology at University College London Daniel Miller insists that shopping is not a frivolous activity. Miller spent a year accompanying people on everyday excursions to the supermarket as part of an ethnographic study of a street in north London, England. He discovered that shopping was primarily an act of love. People show concern for others when they shop, taking their family's health, as well as their preferences, into account in the goods they buy. Miller compares shopping to a sacrificial ritual and argues that, in a sense, it is like a religious activity.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1998
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New elite's threat to cream off cash
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UK PhD students may only be able to obtain funding if they study at elite universities. A review chaired by Martin Harris from Manchester University, England, has recommended to the Higher Education Funding Council that research funding be restricted to specific institutions scoring a high grade on research assessment. Roderick Floud from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) notes that teaching is an important part of helping PhD students complete theses on time, and teaching skills and research skills are different.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1996
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Republicans gun for arts cash
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The US National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) may face closure by the Republicans as Congress is to reauthorise the two organisations and give budget approval during 1995. The NEA has been criticised for funding work described as pornographic; and the NEH has taken the dangerous step of suggesting changes which would destroy American civilisation.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1995
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