Professor Janet Carsten FBA

The anthropology of kinship with particular reference to Malaysia & Britain, domestic relations, historical migration, the house, adoption reunions, kinship & memory, bodily substance, the interface between popular & medical ideas about blood.
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2011
Subjects
Anthropology

Current post

Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Edinburgh

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Ash Amin FBA

Transformations in contemporary society/space relations; urban and regional development; re-imagining the economy; new forms of politics and citizenship; the idea of Europe; race and multiculturalism

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Professor Bob Bennett FBA

Geography Central Europe Southern Europe Western Europe

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Professor Francis B Nyamnjoh FBA

Francis Nyamnjoh is a scholar of African Studies and Social Anthropology, specialising in media and communication, mobility, identity, citizenship and the politics of belonging, through the lens of incompleteness and conviviality.

Francis Nyamnjoh FBA

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