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Professor Dame Caroline Humphrey FBA

Social & Cultural Anthropology, Other Branches Eastern Europe including Russia East Asia South Asia Central and Inner Asia Caucasus

Elected 1998

Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1998
Sections
Africa, Asia and the Middle East, Theology and Religious Studies, Anthropology and Geography
Website
http://innerasiaresearch.org/CHsite/index.html

Current post

Professor Emerita and Director of Research, University of Cambridge

Past appointments

University of Cambridge Professor Emerita and Director of Research

2013 -

University of Cambridge Professor of Asian Anthropology

1998 -

University of Cambridge Professor of Asian Anthropology, University of Cambridge

1998 - 2013

University of Cambridge Lecturer then Reader in Social Anthropology

1978 - 1998

Publications

Karl Marx collective 1986

The archetypal actions of ritual 1994

Shamans and elders 1996

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The documentation and morpho-syntactic description of modern Arabic dialects and Modern South Arabian languages; theoretical phonology and morphology with reference to Arabic and Modern South Arabian

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Population and health geography; family, gender and migration; health inequalities; migration and health; disease clustering; longitudinal and administrative data

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Professor Dawn Chatty FBA

Middle Eastern ethnography particularly prolonged forced migration, and forced settlement of mobile indigenous peoples as well as biodiversity conservation, sustainable development, and the politics of pastoral livelihoods

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