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Dr Joseph Needham FBA

History; Oriental and African Studies
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1971
Year of birth
1900
Year of death
1995
Honours
CH, FRS, FBA
Sections
Africa, Asia and the Middle East

Current post

Emeritus Director, East Asian History of Science Library

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Irina Nikolaeva FBA

General linguistics; linguistic diversity and linguistic typology; language change; Uralic, Altaic and Palaeosiberian languages and linguistics; documentation and description of endangered languages

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Professor Richard Widdess FBA

Musicology of South Asia, including history, theory, analysis and social context of music in North India and Nepal; music and religion in South Asia; analysis of world music; music cognition, performance and meaning in oral traditions

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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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