Professor Alan Barnard FBA

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

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year of death: 2022
Year elected: 2010
Sections: Anthropology and Geography
Website: http://www.san.ed.ac.uk/staff/barnard_alan

Last post

Emeritus Professor of the Anthropology of Southern Africa, University of Edinburgh

Past appointments

University of Edinburgh Emeritus Professor of the Anthropology of Southern Africa

2016 -

Publications

Anthropology and the Bushman 2007

Social Anthropology and Human Origins 2011

Genesis of Symbolic Thought 2012

Language in Prehistory 2016

Research Practices in the Study of Kinship 1984

A Nharo Wordlist, with Notes on Grammar 1985

History and Theory in Anthropology 2000

Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa: A Comparative Ethnography of the Khoisan Peoples 1992

Kalahari Bushmen (children's book) 1993

Social Anthropology: A Concise Introduction for Students 2000

Los pueblos cazadores recolectores: Tres conferencias dictadas en Argentina / 2001

Social Anthropology: Investigating Human Social Life 2006 (2nd edn)

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Miles Ogborn FBA

Historical geography of trade & empire; seventeenth & eighteenth centuries; India; Caribbean; communication in speech, script & print

Professor David Mosse FBA

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.

Professor Roger Kain FBA

Historical Geography and Map History