Professor Alan Barnard FBA

Comparative ethnography of southern Africa; contemporary hunter-gatherers; the history of anthropology; the social anthropology of human origins, especially the co-evolution of language and kinship
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2010
Year of death
2022
Subjects
Anthropology

Last post

Emeritus Professor of the Anthropology of Southern Africa, University of Edinburgh

Past appointments

University of Edinburgh Emeritus Professor of the Anthropology of Southern Africa

2016 -

Publications

Anthropology and the Bushman 2007

Social Anthropology and Human Origins 2011

Genesis of Symbolic Thought 2012

Language in Prehistory 2016

Research Practices in the Study of Kinship 1984

A Nharo Wordlist, with Notes on Grammar 1985

History and Theory in Anthropology 2000

Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa: A Comparative Ethnography of the Khoisan Peoples 1992

Kalahari Bushmen (children's book) 1993

Social Anthropology: A Concise Introduction for Students 2000

Los pueblos cazadores recolectores: Tres conferencias dictadas en Argentina / 2001

Social Anthropology: Investigating Human Social Life 2006 (2nd edn)

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Sheila Jasanoff FBA

Social studies of science and technology; comparative work on relations between science, technology, politics and law in Europe, the United States and India; theoretical work on expertise and democracy

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Professor Denise Pumain FBA

Comparative analysis of the evolution of cities & systems of cities in different parts of the world; dynamic modelling of complex systems in social sciences; geographical theory.

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Professor Matthew Gandy FBA

Cultural, urban, and environmental geography, from the middle decades of the nineteenth century to the present, with particular interests in landscape, infrastructure, and bio-diversity

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