Professor Dame Caroline Humphrey FBA

Social & Cultural Anthropology, Other Branches Eastern Europe including Russia East Asia South Asia Central and Inner Asia Caucasus

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 1998
Subjects: Anthropology, Religion
Sections: Africa, Asia and the Middle East , Theology and Religious Studies , Anthropology and Geography
Website: http://innerasiaresearch.org/CHsite/index.html

Current post

Professor Emerita and Director of Research, University of Cambridge

Past appointments

University of Cambridge Professor Emerita and Director of Research

2013 -

University of Cambridge Professor of Asian Anthropology

1998 -

University of Cambridge Professor of Asian Anthropology, University of Cambridge

1998 - 2013

University of Cambridge Lecturer then Reader in Social Anthropology

1978 - 1998

Publications

Karl Marx collective 1986

The archetypal actions of ritual 1994

Shamans and elders 1996

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Jonathan Parry FBA

Social & cultural anthropology, other branches; South Asia India; anthropology

Professor Margaret Hillenbrand FBA

Literature, art history, and visual media in modern and contemporary China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, especially cultures of protest and secrecy

Professor Judith Lieu FBA

The New Testament, in particular the Johannine literature; early Christianity, its literature and thought, in the Graeco-Roman and Jewish first- and second-century contexts

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