Social Sciences
Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Humanities at the Johns Hopkins University. Her most recent book is Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary, California University Press, 2006. She has worked on themes of violence, social suffering, health and disease, and anthropology of the everyday. Currently she is engaged in a longitudinal study of urban neighbourhoods in Delhi. Das is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Academy of Sciences for Developing Societies. She has received several honours including the Andrez Retzius Prize of the Swedish Society of Anthropology and Geography and an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters from the University of Chicago.
- Anthropology
Anthropology is a science of man and his works. Sociology and anthropology are "twin sisters". Both are mutually helpful and supportive. Anthropology has two main branches: (i) Physical anthropology and (ii) cultural anthropology. Physical anthropology...
- Deepak Mehta
Deepak Mehta is Reader at the Department of Sociology. He is the author of Work, Ritual, Biography: A Muslim Community in North India, 1997 (OUP) and co-author of Living With Violence: An Anthropology of Events and Everyday Life, 2007 (Routledge). He...
- Peter Fitzpatrick
Peter Fitzpatrick is currently Anniversary Professor of Law at Birkbeck, University of London, Honorary Professor of Law in the University of Kent, and Visiting Fellow in the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Warwick. In 2007 he was awarded...
- Sylvia Vatuk
November 2007 SYLVIA JANE DUTRA VATUK Department of Anthropology (m\c 027) University of Illinois at Chicago Education: 1970 PhD Harvard University 1958 MA University of London, School of Oriental & African Studies 1955 BA Cornell University...
- Julia Eckert
Julia Eckert is Associate Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany where she heads the research group ?Law against the State? which examines the juridification of protest and the globalisation of transnational...
Social Sciences
Veena Das
Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Humanities at the Johns Hopkins University. Her most recent book is Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary, California University Press, 2006. She has worked on themes of violence, social suffering, health and disease, and anthropology of the everyday. Currently she is engaged in a longitudinal study of urban neighbourhoods in Delhi. Das is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Academy of Sciences for Developing Societies. She has received several honours including the Andrez Retzius Prize of the Swedish Society of Anthropology and Geography and an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters from the University of Chicago.
- Anthropology
Anthropology is a science of man and his works. Sociology and anthropology are "twin sisters". Both are mutually helpful and supportive. Anthropology has two main branches: (i) Physical anthropology and (ii) cultural anthropology. Physical anthropology...
- Deepak Mehta
Deepak Mehta is Reader at the Department of Sociology. He is the author of Work, Ritual, Biography: A Muslim Community in North India, 1997 (OUP) and co-author of Living With Violence: An Anthropology of Events and Everyday Life, 2007 (Routledge). He...
- Peter Fitzpatrick
Peter Fitzpatrick is currently Anniversary Professor of Law at Birkbeck, University of London, Honorary Professor of Law in the University of Kent, and Visiting Fellow in the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Warwick. In 2007 he was awarded...
- Sylvia Vatuk
November 2007 SYLVIA JANE DUTRA VATUK Department of Anthropology (m\c 027) University of Illinois at Chicago Education: 1970 PhD Harvard University 1958 MA University of London, School of Oriental & African Studies 1955 BA Cornell University...
- Julia Eckert
Julia Eckert is Associate Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany where she heads the research group ?Law against the State? which examines the juridification of protest and the globalisation of transnational...