Professor Daniel Miller FBA

Anthropology of Social Media and Digital Anthropology. Anthropological approaches to material culture including clothing and homes; the role of objects in relationships; the process of consumption and the study of commerce and value

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2008
Subjects: Anthropology
Sections: Culture, Media and Performance , Anthropology and Geography
Website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/people/academic_staff/d_miller

Summary

Appointments: Professor of Material Culture, Department of Anthropology, University College London University College London (1995-) Principal publications: How the World Changed Social Media 2016. Social Media in an English Village 2016,. Stuff 2010 The Comfort of Things, 2008 A Theory of Shopping, 1998 Material Culture and Mass Consumption, 1987

Current post

Professor of Anthropology, University College London

Past appointments

University College London Professor of Anthropology

2017 -

University College London Professor of Material Culture, Department of Anthropology

1995 - 2017

Publications

The Comfort of Things

Published in 2008

A Theory of Shopping

Published in 1998

Material Culture and Mass Consumption

Published in 1987

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Charles Stafford FBA

Professor Heonik Kwon FBA

The postcolonial Cold War; civil war memories in Vietnam and in Korea; death rituals and the politics of kinship; early fieldwork in indigenous Siberia; the heritage of internationalism in anthropology

Professor Annette Kuhn FBA

Film history, cultural memory, object-relations psychoanalysis and film theory

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