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 Emma Tarlo FBA
Emma Tarlo's research interests are anthropology of material culture with reference to the politics of dress in India, the emergence of Islamic fashion in Britain and Europe and the global trade in human hair; and anthropological non-fiction writing and exhibition curation.
Professor Veena Das FBA
Anthropology and philosophy with special emphasis on everyday life; anthropology of violence; the urban poor; ordinary ethics and feminism; kinship and religion; Indian philosophy and aesthetics
