Professor Philippe Descola FBA

The ethnology of Amazonian Indians, especially of their use and perception of the environment; the comparative anthropology of the relations between nature and society
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2010
Subjects
Anthropology

Current post

Professor, Collège de France; Director of Studies, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Stephen Daniels FBA

The history of landscape representation, design and management; the landscape arts of eighteenth century Britain; the history of geographical knowledge and imagination

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Professor Susan Owens FBA

Environmental governance: relations between land use planning, environment & sustainability; policy processes in modern democracies, especially the role of knowledge, ideas & advice in policy formation & change.

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Professor Sarah Radcliffe FBA

Critical development and political geography; postcolonial and decolonial geography; indigeneity; intersectionality in socio-spatial inequalities; these themes in relation to Andean lives, contestations and knowledges

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