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Article: Playing at politics: an ethnography of the Oxford Union.(Book review)
- Article from:
- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
- Article date:
- December 1, 2006
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GRAHAM, FIONA. Playing at politics: an ethnography of the Oxford Union. vi, 218 pp., bibliogr. Edinburgh: Dunedin Academic Press, 2005. [pounds sterling]14.99 (paper)
This witty examination of British political processes is based on Fiona Graham's 2001 documentary The Oxford Union: campus of tradition shown on Japanese television. A camera crew followed one of the candidates for office within the student debating society known as the Oxford Union. Graham focuses on the highly ambitious individuals who decide that their future careers will benefit more from being known as former Presidents of the Oxford Union than from the quality of their degrees. Although most ...