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 Rosalind (Polly) O’Hanlon FBA

The early modern and colonial history of India; histories of empire, with particular reference to caste and gender; problems in intellectual history and historical methodology in the postcolonial world; history, language and culture of Maharashtra

Professor Judith Olszowy-Schlanger FBA

Medieval Hebrew manuscripts from the East and the West: palaeographical, codicological and historical studies

Professor Richard Widdess FBA

Musicology of South Asia, including history, theory, analysis and social context of music in North India and Nepal; music and religion in South Asia; analysis of world music; music cognition, performance and meaning in oral traditions

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