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 Heonik Kwon FBA
The postcolonial Cold War; civil war memories in Vietnam and in Korea; death rituals and the politics of kinship; early fieldwork in indigenous Siberia; the heritage of internationalism in anthropology
