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Jonathan Robert Spencer (born 23 December 1954) is a British social anthropologist and academic. Since 2014, he has been the Regius Professor of South Asian Language, Culture and Society at the University of Edinburgh.
Early life and education
Spencer was born on 23 December 1954 in Dorking, Surrey, England. He studied social anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, and graduated with an undergraduate Master of Arts (MA Hons) degree in 1977. He was then a postgraduate student at the University of Chicago, and graduated with a postgraduate Master of Arts (AM) degree in 1981. He undertook postgraduate research at the University of Oxford, and graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in 1986.[1]
Academic career
Spencer was a lecturer at the University of Sussex in 1987, a lecturer at the London School of Economics from 1989 to 1990.[1] He is from the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh and currently Head of Subject. He is also a professor of the Anthropology of South Asia. His field of interest include nationalism, politics, violence, Buddhism and Sri Lanka. He has published many works on politics of Sri Lanka and the Sri Lankan civil war.[2][3]
Jonathan Spencer has also made significant contributions to the history and theory of anthropology. Together with his University of Edinburgh colleague, Alan Barnard, the two have produced a history of anthropological theory which continues to be a widely used textbook at institutions of higher education.
Notable publications
- A Sinhala Village in a Time of Trouble: Politics and Change in Rural Sri Lanka (1990) - Oxford University Press
- Post-colonialism and the Political Imagination (1997)
- Fatima and the Enchanted Toffees: An Essay on Contingency, Narrative and Therap (1997)
- On Not Becoming a Terrorist: Problems of Memory, Agency and Community in the Sri Lankan Conflict (2000) - University of California Press
- British Social Anthropology: A Retrospective
- Anthropology, Politics and the State: Democracy and Violence in South Asia (2007) - Cambridge University Press
References
- ^ a b "SPENCER, Prof. Jonathan Robert". Who's Who 2016. Oxford University Press. November 2015. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
- ^ The University of Edinburgh. "Staff profile:Jonathan Spencer". Retrieved 2008-03-14.
- ^ "Anthropology, Politics, and the State". Retrieved 2008-08-09.
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