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
- Sections
- Anthropology and Geography
Current post
Professor, Collège de France; Director of Studies, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Louise Amoore FBA
Political geography: geopolitics of technology, politics of algorithms; biometrics and data borders, the politics and ethics of machine learning and AI
Professor Chris Fuller FBA
The anthropology of India, including popular Hinduism and Hindu nationalism, the caste system, the modern state, globalisation and the middle class; field research mainly in Tamil Nadu.
Professor Tobias Kelly FBA
Political and legal anthropology, human rights, political violence, war and peace, cultures of evidence, law and society in Britain
