Brian Morris (anthropologist)

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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.

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  • 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