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 Diana Liverman FBA

The human dimensions of global environmental change with a focus on vulnerability and adaptation, governance, geography, and climate justice

Diana Liverman FBA

Professor Sarah Green FBA

Sarah Green is a Social Anthropologist with expertise in the anthropology of space, place, borders and location.

Sarah-Green-FBA

Professor Lily Kong FBA

From her disciplinary roots in Geography, Professor Lily Kong FBA has since come to embrace interdisciplinarity in her work. Her research has focused on urban transformations, and social and cultural change in Asian cities.

Lily-Kong-FBA

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