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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.
Photo of David Gellner FBA against a grey background. Photo by John Cairns
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2024
Honours
FBA
Sections
Anthropology and Geography
Website
https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-david-gellner

Current post

Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford; Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford

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