Professor Anatoly Khazanov FBA
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 1990
- Subjects
- Anthropology
- Sections
- Anthropology and Geography
Summary
Anatoly M. Khazanov is Ernest Gellner Professor of Anthropology (Emeritus) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In 1985-1990, he was Professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is a Corresponding Member of the UNESCO International Institute for the Study of Nomadic Civilization, an Honorary Member of the Central Eurasian Society and Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Hebrew University in Jersualem. He has published and edited 19 books and volumes and is the author of about 200 articles and other scholarly publications. Among his monographs is Nomads and the Outside World (second edition: the University of Wisconsin Press, 1994) and After the USSR. Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Politics in the Commonwealth of Independent States (The University of Wisconsin Press, 1995). His current research interests include ethnicity and nationalism, culture representation, post-Communist societies, and pastoral nomadism.
Current post
Ernest Gellner Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Publications
After the USSR: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Politics in the Commonwealth of Independent States
Anatoly M. Khazanov - Published in 1996 by University of Wisconsin Press
Nomads and the Outside World
Anatoly M. Khazanov - Published in 1994 by University of Wisconsin Press
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