Comparative ethnography of southern Africa; contemporary hunter-gatherers; the history of anthropology; the social anthropology of human origins, especially the co-evolution of language and kinship
Elected 2010
Historical geography of trade & empire; seventeenth & eighteenth centuries; India; Caribbean; communication in speech, script & print
Historical anthropology of religion, social-political systems and livelihoods, especially with reference to Indian caste inequality and activism, religious pluralism (Hindu and Christian) and common property resources; the anthropology of knowledge, institutions and international development.
Historical Geography and Map History