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 Rebecca Cassidy FBA

Rebecca Cassidy's research interests are in social anthropology, particularly kinship and inequality, animal and plant breeding, betting and gambling, policy and public health.

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Professor Anatoly Khazanov FBA

Eastern Europe including Russia Central and Inner Asia

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Professor Robert Foley FBA

Human evolution: the evolutionary ecology of extinct hominins; the evolution of human behaviour and culture; prehistory and archaeology of early human populations; evolutionary theory in archaeology and anthropology.

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