Professor Philippe Descola FBA

The ethnology of Amazonian Indians, especially of their use and perception of the environment; the comparative anthropology of the relations between nature and society
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2010
Subjects
Anthropology

Current post

Professor, Collège de France; Director of Studies, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Bob Bennett FBA

Geography Central Europe Southern Europe Western Europe

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Professor Katherine Gibson FBA

Feminist economic geography; theorising diverse economies; poststructuralist participatory action research; community economic practices and place-based development in Australasia; postcapitalist politics

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Professor Jane Wills FBA

Political geography

Professor Jane Wills

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