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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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Michael Carrithers FBA

The Buddha and Buddhism in Sri Lanka; Jains in India; German commemoration of the Twentieth Century; reasoning and cogency in anthropology; rhetoric culture theory; ethnography as a source of philosophy

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Professor Linda McDowell FBA

Geographies of labour market change in the UK; gender divisions of labour; interactive work in the service sector; economic migration since 1945; memory and oral histories, especially of women migrants

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Professor Gordon Clark FBA

Geography Economic Geography Europe USA, Canada and/or Mexico

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