Bruce Kapferer

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Bruce Kapferer (b. 1940) is a well-known Australian social anthropologist. He is currently professor of social anthropology at the University of Bergen, Norway.

Kapferer's research interests span from Africa to Asia, and include thematically healing systems and folk drama, Buddhist cosmology, ethnic identity, nationalism and violence, urban politics and ecological systems

Selected Publications

2003 (ed). Beyond Rationalism: Rethinking Magic, Witchcraft and Sorcery. Berghahn Books: New York & Oxford.

2003. Introduction: Outside All Reason - Magic, Sorcery and Epistemology in Anthropology. In Beyond Rationalism

2003. Sorcery, Modernity and the Constitutive Imaginary: Hybridising Continuities. In Beyond Rationalism

2002. (Editor) The World Trade Center and Global Crisis. Social Analysis, Forum 46(1):92-152.

2002. Foundation and Empire (with apologies to Isaac Asimov): A Consideration of Hardt and Negri's Empire. Review Article. Social Analysis 46(1):167-79.

2002. Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Culture of the State. The 17th Edvard Westermarck Memorial Lecture. Suomen Anthropologi 27(2):4-23.

2001. Sorcery and the Shape of Globalization. Suomen Anthropologi 26(1):4-28.

1998. Legends of People, Myths of State: Violence, Intolerance and Political Culture in Sri Lanka and Australia. Second edition. Crawford Press. First published 1988 by the Smithsonian Institute Press.

1997. The Feast of the Sorcerer: Practices of Consciousness and Power. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.

1969. "Norms and the Manipulation of Relationships in a Work Context", in Social Networks in Urban Situations, edited by J.C. Mitchell. Manchester: Manchester University Press.