Professor Kirsten Hastrup FBA

The entanglement of natural & social histories in Iceland & Greenland; the anthropological contribution to climate change research; the history of Artic anthropology; the foundations of anthropological knowledge
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2011
Subjects
Anthropology

Current post

Professor of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor William Cronon FBA

Environmental history and historical geography, focusing principally on human interactions with the landscapes and ecosystems of North America

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Professor Penny Harvey FBA

Anthropology of state effects, infrastructures, engineering, materiality and communicative practice drawing on long term ethnographic research in Peru and more recently in the UK. Current focus on nuclear waste disposal, emergent publics and the politics and temporalities of place-making

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Professor Christopher Pinney FBA

Commercial print cultures of South Asia (especially chromolithography), visual culture of popular politics and religion; anthropological approaches to photography, history of photography in India; Hindu practice in rural central India

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