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
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2019
- Subjects
- Anthropology
- Sections
- Anthropology and Geography
Current post
Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Jonathan D Rigg FBA
Agrarian transitions in Asia with a focus on livelihoods and living; migration, mobility and rural-urban relations; resilience and adaptation to natural hazards and environmental change; Southeast Asia area studies
Professor David Gellner FBA
The social anthropology of religion, politics and ethnicity in Nepal and South Asia, including caste and concepts of hierarchy, class, borderlands, activism, democracy and elections, Buddhism and Hinduism; Max Weber.
