Brian Morris (anthropologist)
- Brian Morris (anthropologist)
Brian Morris (born 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.
He has carried out fieldwork among South African hunter-gatherers and in Malawi.
Books
* "Forest Traders: a Socio-economic Study of the Hill Pandaram" (1982), Humanities Press
* "Anthropological Studies of Religion" (1987), Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-33991-X
* "Anthropology Of The Self: The Individual In Cultural Perspective" (1994)
* "The Power Of Animals" (1998), Berg
* "Western Conceptions of the Individal" 1991, Berg, ISBN 0-85496-698-6
* "Animals and Ancestors: An Ethnography" (2000), Berg
* "Insects and Human Life" (2004), Berg, ISBN 1-85973-847-8
* "Religion And Anthropology: A Critical Introduction" (2006), Cambridge University Press
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