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We're down to the final three in the British Sociological Association BBC Ethnography Award.

Which three find out?

For no I'm a turn to

I'm a judge. Yes, now I'm a judge.

I'm a judge for all my law be fat,

get a never, never boards.

But I live a dire judge.

Hello, you know, nothing so readily lifts one above one's fellow beings as acting as a judge.

I remember how much my fellow academics and I relished the final examination meetings where it only needed a few

judgmental words to consign an undergraduate to a third or first class future.

Well in the last few weeks I've been at it again as with the help of three other professional

academics I've been busy reducing this year's entries for the BSA BBC Ethnography Award to a short

list of just three books and that sadly meant saying goodbye to some fine

submissions, Maria Domar Pereira's wonderfully perceptive study of how academics

decide what counts as proper knowledge. Janet Davis's moving an enlightening account of living

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