- Anthony Cohen
Anthony Cohen, CBE, FRSE is a British social anthropologist.
Cohen was born in London in 1946. Educated at Whittingehame College, Brighton, the
University of Geneva and theUniversity of Southampton , he is a social anthropologist with specialist interests in personal, social and national identity. He conducted fieldwork in Springdale, Newfoundland (1968-70) on local-level politics; and inWhalsay (1973-90), the longest sustained study of a rural British community ever undertaken. He then did research on personal and national identity in Scotland, and on the literary influences on Scottishness.Anthony Cohen was a research fellow at the
Memorial University of Newfoundland ; assistant professor atQueen's University and lecturer and senior lecturer in social anthropology at theUniversity of Manchester . In 1988 he was appointed Professor of Social Anthropology at theUniversity of Edinburgh , a post he held until 2003. He was Provost of Law and Social Sciences, and Dean of Social Sciences at Edinburgh for five years (1997—2002). In 2003, he was appointed Honorary Professor of Social Anthropology.In 2003, he became Principal and Vice-Patron of Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh, and Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology. In January 2007, QMUC was awarded university title, and Professor Cohen became the founding Principal and Vice-Chancellor of
Queen Margaret University . He was elected Fellow of theRoyal Society of Edinburgh in 1994, and was awarded the honorary degree of D.Sc by theUniversity of Edinburgh in 2005.He was appointed
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours. [LondonGazette |issue=58729 |date=14 June 2008 |startpage=7 |supp=yes |notarchive=yes]Works
* "The Management of Myths", 1975,
Manchester University Press
* "The Symbolic Construction of Community", 1985, Routledge
* "Whalsay: Symbol, Segment and Boundary in a Shetland Island Community", 1987,Manchester University Press
* "Self Consciousness: an Alternative Anthropology of Identity", 1994, RoutledgeFootnotes
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