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
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2010
- Year of death
- 2022
- Subjects
- Anthropology
- Sections
- Anthropology and Geography
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
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Susanne Küchler FBA
The anthropology of material aesthetics, mathematics and memory; The nature of innovation and the cognitive work of images, taking insights from ethnographic research in Oceania to the laboratory context of materials science
Professor Susan Owens FBA
Environmental governance: relations between land use planning, environment & sustainability; policy processes in modern democracies, especially the role of knowledge, ideas & advice in policy formation & change.
