Brian Morris (anthropologist)
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Brian Morris | |
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| Born | 18 October 1936 |
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| Occupation | Anthropologist |
| Employer | Goldsmiths, University of London |
| Website | brianmorris |
Brian Morris (born 18 October 1936) is emeritus professor of anthropology at Goldsmiths College at the University of London. He is a specialist on folk taxonomy, ethnobotany and ethnozoology, and on religion and symbolism.[1] He has carried out fieldwork among South Asian hunter-gatherers and in Malawi. Groups that he has studied include the Ojibwa.[2] He has also written widely on the history of ideas and in particular on anarchism.
Brian Morris was born in the Black Country. He left school at fifteen.[3]
He worked as a tea planter in Malawi.[4] He became an anarchist in the mid-1960s, and remained active in several protests and political movements.[5] He later received a doctorate in social anthropology at the London School of Economics, doing his PhD ethnographic fieldwork with Malaipantaram hunter-gatherers in Southern India.[4]
He has written books and articles on ecology, botany, ethnobotany and ethnobiology, political philosophy, religion, anthropology, and social anarchism. His 2004 Kropotkin: The Politics of Community, published by PM Press, locates anarchist thinker Peter Kropotkin within intellectual history as a theorist of social science, power, and ecology.[6]
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