Professor Jonathan Parry FBA

Social & cultural anthropology, other branches; South Asia India; anthropology
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
2001
Subjects
Anthropology

Current post

Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics

Past appointments

London School of Economics and Political Science University of London Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics

1993 -

London School of Economics and Political Science University of London Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader then from 1993 Professor of Anthropology

1974 -

University of Edinburgh Lecturer in Social Anthropology

1971 - 1974

Publications

Caste and kinship in Kangra 1979

Death in Banaras 1994

The worlds of Indian industrial labour 1999

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Georgina Born OBE FBA

Anthropology and sociology of music, media and digital cultures; anthropological theory; the social, the material, and time; cultural production, cultural institutions and creative industries; music in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries; interdisciplinarity; AI and culture; digital humanities and digital methods

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Professor Christopher Pinney FBA

Commercial print cultures of South Asia (especially chromolithography), visual culture of popular politics and religion; anthropological approaches to photography, history of photography in India; Hindu practice in rural central India

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Professor Ruth S. DeFries FBA

Sustainable land use; climate resilience; biodiversity and conservation; landscape connectivity; livelihoods; food systems; remote sensing; science-policy interface; central India

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