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 Susan Smith is President of the British Academy. She is known for her contributions to social geography and for her collaborative interdisciplinary research on the links between housing, inequality, health and wellbeing.

Professor Ruth S. DeFries FBA

Sustainable land use; climate resilience; biodiversity and conservation; landscape connectivity; livelihoods; food systems; remote sensing; science-policy interface; central India

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