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

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

Dr Miranda Morris FBA

Dr Miranda Morris' research interests focus on the six unwritten Semitic languages of southern Arabia and Soqotra, known as the Modern South Arabian Languages (MSAL), and the fast-disappearing knowledge systems and cultural practices of their speakers.

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Professor Daniel Potts FBA

The archaeology and history of the Near East, particularly the Iranian world, from antiquity to the pre-modern era

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Professor David Fergusson FBA

The doctrines of creation and providence, relationship of church and state, engagement with the 'new atheism', and the history of Reformed theology, especially in Scotland

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