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

Professor David Gellner FBA

The social anthropology of religion, politics and ethnicity in Nepal and South Asia, including caste and concepts of hierarchy, class, borderlands, activism, democracy and elections, Buddhism and Hinduism; Max Weber.

David Gellner FBA

Professor Matthew Gandy FBA

Cultural, urban, and environmental geography, from the middle decades of the nineteenth century to the present, with particular interests in landscape, infrastructure, and bio-diversity

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Mr Timothy Clark FBA

Pictorial arts in early modern Japan; Katsushika Hokusai

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