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Dr Emma Tarlo

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Dr Emma Tarlo has conducted long term anthropological fieldwork in India and Britain. She has a specialist interest in the anthropology of dress, material culture and urban anthropology and has published widely in these fields. Her work engages with issues of colonialism, nationalism, diasporic identities, aesthetics, religious revivalism, identity politics, stigma and representation. She is particularly interested in the relationship between visual, material and narrative forms. She teaches Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London.

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Are All Faiths Able to Participate in and Benefit From the Games?

(94) Comments | Posted 30 July 2012 | (00:00)

Earlier this month FIFA overturned its ban on the wearing of hijab in competitive football just in time for the London Olympics but too late for the Iranian women's football team who were turned away from their qualifying match in Bahrain last year for wearing headscarves.

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