Alan Barnard (anthropologist)
Alan John Barnard (born February 22, 1949 ) is an anthropologist and ethnologist .
Live and act
Alan Barnard has taught at the University of Edinburgh since 1978 , where he is professor of anthropology of southern Africa . He works particularly on the subjects of comparative ethnography , history of anthropology, social anthropology of human origin, origin of language and contemporary hunter-gatherers (hunter-gatherers) of the San , particularly in Botswana , Namibia and South Africa .
In 2010 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy .
He participates in the British Academy's From Lucy to Language: The Archeology of the Social Brain project and heads the group Kinship systems in southern African non-Bantu languages: Documentation, comparison, and historical analysis of the Kalahari Basin Area project, which is run by the Economic and Social Research Council.
Alan Barnard is Honorary Consul of Namibia in Edinburgh .
Fonts
- Bushmen. British Museum Press, London 1978, ISBN 0-7141-0092-7 .
- A Nharo wordlist with notes on grammar. University of Natal, Durban 1985, ISBN 0-86980-437-5 .
- Research practices in the study of kinship. Academic Press, London 1987, ISBN 0-12-078980-9 .
- Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa: A Comparative Ethnography of the Khoisan peoples. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1992, ISBN 0-521-41188-2 .
- The Kalahari debate. A bibliographical essay. Center of African Studies, Edinburgh 12992, OCLC 27735106 .
- Kalahari Bushmen. Wayland, Hove 1993, ISBN 0-7502-0877-5 .
- History and Theory in Anthropology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2000, ISBN 0-521-77432-2 . 11th edition 2010.
- Social Anthropology: A Concise Introduction for Students. Studymates, Taunton 2000, ISBN 1-84285-000-8 .
- with Jonathan Spencer (Ed.): Encyclopedia of social and cultural anthropology. Routledge, London / New York 2004, ISBN 0-415-28558-5 .
- New edition: The Routledge encyclopedia of social and cultural anthropology. Routledge, London / New York 2012, ISBN 978-0-415-80936-8 .
- Hunter-Gatherers in History, Archeology and Anthropology. Berg, Oxford 2004, ISBN 1-85973-820-6 .
- Social Anthropology: Investigating Human Social Life. Studymates, Abergele 2006, ISBN 1-84285-084-9 .
- Anthropology and the Bushman. Berg, Oxford 2007, ISBN 978-1-8452-0428-0 .
- Social anthropology and human origins. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2011, ISBN 978-0-521-76531-2 .
- Genesis of Symbolic Thought. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2012, ISBN 978-1-10-702569-1 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Alan Barnard in the catalog of the German National Library (Note: The title Dinosaurier - why they had to die is wrongly assigned, it belongs to the illustrator Alan Barnard .)
- Alan Barnard on the University of Edinburgh website
Individual evidence
- ^ Alan Barnard ( Memento March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on the British Academy website
- ^ Group IP 5 on the Kalahari Basin Area Project website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barnard, Alan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Barnard, Alan John (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Anthropologist and ethnologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1949 |