John Davis (academic)
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John Horsley Russell Davis (born London, England, September 9, 1938) is a British anthropologist, Warden of All Souls College, Oxford, and Professor of Social Anthropology in the University of Oxford.
Davis was educated at University College, Oxford (BA Modern History 1961, MA) and the London School of Economics (PhD Social Anthropology 1968).
He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1988.
He was appointed Professor of Social Anthropology in the University of Oxford and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 1990 and was elected Warden of All Souls in 1995.
He was Chairman of the European Association of Social Anthropologists 1993/94 and President of the Royal Anthropological Institute from 1997 until 2001.
He nominated his immediate predecessor as Warden, Patrick Neill, Baron Neill of Bladen, for the office of Chancellor of the University of Oxford.
[edit] Publications
- John Davis, 'Passatella: An economic game', British Journal of Sociology 15 (1964), 191-206
- John Davis, 'Atteggiamenti morali e arretratezza economica nel mezzogiorno', La Critica Sociologica 6 (1968), 5-28, reprinted as 'Principi morali e arretratezza', in Edward C. Banfield, ed., Le basi morali di una societá arretrata (Bologna: Società Editrice Il Mulino, 1982), pp. 281-97
- John Davis, 'Honour and politics in Pisticci', Proceedings of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1969), 69-82
- John Davis, 'Town and country', Anthropological Quarterly 43 (1969), 171-85
- John Davis, 'Morals and backwardness', Comparative Studies in Society and History 12 (1970), 340-53, reprinted in Colin Bell, ed., The Sociology of Community: A selection of readings, (London: Frank Cass, 1974), pp. 122-44
- John Davis, 'Gifts and the UK economy', Man 7 (1972), 408-29
- John Davis, 'Research in Sussex', Man 8 (1972), 306
- John Davis, 'The particular theory of exchange', European Journal of Sociology 16 (1973), 151-68
- John Davis, Land and family in Pisticci (London: Athlone, 1973), of which chapter 10 was translated into French and published as 'Propriété foncière, parenté et structure sociale dans les transformations d'un bourg de Basilicate', in Bernard Kayser, ed., Les sociétés rurales de la Méditerrané: Recueil de textes angloamericains (Aix-en-Provence: Édisud, 1986), pp. 141-5, translated into Italian and published as Terra e famiglia a Pisticci (Rome: Ceres, 1991)
- John Davis, 'Forms and norms: The economy of social relations', Man 7 (1973), 408-29, reprinted in Louis A. Ferman, ed., Work beyond employment in advanced capitalist countries: Classic and contemporary perspectives on the informal economy, vol. 1, Concepts, evidence and measurement (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 1993), pp. 40-69
- John Davis, ed., Choice and change: Essays in honour of Lucy Mair (LSE Monographs in Social Anthropology 50, London: Athlone, 1974), including 'How they hid the Red Flag in Pisticci in 1923, and how it was betrayed', pp. 44-67
- John Davis, 'An account of changes in the rules for transmission of property in Pisticci 18141961', in John George Peristiany, ed., Mediterranean Family Structures (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976), pp. 287-303
- John Davis, People of the Mediterranean: An essay in comparative social anthropology (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977), translated into Italian by Mario Trucchi and published as Antropologia delle società mediterranee: Un'analisi comparata (Turin: Rosenberg & Sellier, 1980), translated into Spanish and published as Antropologia de las sociedades mediterraneas (Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama, 1983)
- John Davis, 'The value of the evidence', Man 13:3 (1978), 471-3
- John Davis, 'Review of R.H. Behnke, The herders of Cyrenaica', Annuaire de l'Afrique du Nord 19 (1980)
- John Davis, 'Social anthropology and the consumption of history', Theory and Society 9 (1980), 519-37
- John Davis, 'Principle and practice of government in Qadhdhafi's Libya', Al-Abhath 30 (1982), 51-75
- John Davis, 'Qaddafi's theory and practice of non-representative government', Government and Opposition 17 (1982), 61-79, published in French as 'Théorie et pratique du gouvernement non représentatif: les éléctions aux comités populaire d'Ajdabiyah en 1978', Maghreb-Mashrek 93 (1981), 39-55, reprinted in Saad Eddin Ibrahim, ed., Arab Society: Social Science Perspectives (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1985), pp. 365-78
- John Davis, ed. and introduction, Religious organisation and religious experience (ASA Monographs in Social Anthropology 21, London: Academic Press, 1982)
- John Davis, 'A note on some Libyan archives in Canterbury', Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies 9:1 (1982), 75-9
- John Davis, 'La structure social de Koufra', Annuaire de l'Afrique du Nord 22 (1983), 545-564
- John Davis, 'History in the making', in Heide Nixdorff, ed., Europaische Ethnologie (Berlin: Reimer, 1983), pp. 291-8
- John Davis, 'Data into text', in R.F. Ellen, ed., Ethnographic research: A guide to general conduct (London: Academic Press, 1984), pp. 295-318
- John Davis, 'The sexual division of religious labour in the Mediterranean', in E.R. Wolf, ed., Religion, power and protest in local communities: The northern shore of the Mediterranean(Berlin: Mouton, 1984), pp. 17-50
- John Davis, 'Emile Durkheim: Contributions to L'Année Sociologique', Theory and Society 13 (1984), 1402
- John Davis, 'Report on the Workshop on Computing and on Computing and Anthropology', Bulletin of Information on Computing and Anthropology 1 (1984), 3-7
- John Davis, 'Rules not laws: Outline of an ethnographic approach to economics', in, Bryan Roberts, ed., New approaches to economic life: Economic restructuring: unemployment and the social division of labour (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1985), pp. 502-11
- John Davis, 'A Background Note on Gtree', Bulletin of Information on Computing and Anthropology 3 (1985), 16-20 translated into Italian and published as 'Regole non leggi: elementi per un approccio etnografico all'economia', in Mauro Magatti, ed., Azione economica come azione sociale (Milan: Franco Angeli, 1991), pp. 279-280
- John Davis, Libyan Politics: Tribe and Revolution: The Zuwaya and their Government (London: I.B. Tauris, 1987), translated into French and published as 'Le système libyen: Les tribus et la révolution', Recherches politiques (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1990)
- John Davis, 'Zuwaya social organisation', in Aharon Layish, ed., Facsimiles from the Libyan Sharia archives (Jerusalem: Hebrew University, 1987)
- John Davis, 'Family and State in the Mediterranean', in David D. Gilmore, ed., Honor and shame and the unity of the Mediterranean (Special Publications Series, Washington: American Anthropological Association, 1987), pp. 22-34
- John Davis, 'History Retold: Gadaffi telling the past as it never was', Index on Censorship 5 (1987), 24-25
- John Davis, 'Ma, il divorzio fa una differenza?', in Giovanna Fiume et al., ed., Onore e storia nelle societá mediterranee (Palermo: La Luna, 1988)
- John Davis with Aharon Layish, Libyan Society: A selection of documents from the sijills of the sharia courts of Ajdabiya and Kufra (Jerusalem: Academon, 1988)
- John Davis, 'Michael Herzfeld and Greece', Anthropology Today 5:1 (1989), 17-19
- John Davis, 'The Social Relations of the Production of History', in Elizabeth Tonkin, ed., History and Ethnicity (ASA Monographs, London: Routledge, 1989)
- John Davis with John Bousfield, 'And what if sophistry is universal?', Current Anthropology 30:4 (1989), 517
- John Davis, 'Méditerranéen (Monde)', in Pierre Bonte, ed., Dictionnaire de l'ethnologie et de l'anthropologie (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1991), pp. 460-2
- John Davis, 'An interview with Ernest Gellner', Current Anthropology 32:1 (1991), 63-72
- John Davis, Times and Identities: An inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 1 May 1991 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991)
- John Davis, 'Islam and the history of the Libyan state', in Mart Bax, Peter Kloos, and Adrianus Koster, eds, Faith and Polity: Essays on Religion and Politics (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1992)
- John Davis, 'Breve storia della civiltà contadina', in Claudio Cecchi, ed., Manlio Rossi-Doria e la Basilicata: Il Mezzogiorno difficile (Quaderni: La Questione Agraria, Milan: Francoangeli, 1992), pp. 87-98
- John Davis, 'The anthropology of suffering', Journal of Refugee Studies 5 (1992), pp. 149-61, translated into Italian and published as 'La antropologia del sufrimiento', Revista de Occidente 137 (1992), 728
- John Davis, Exchange (Buckingham: Open University Press; Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992), translated into Romanian by Lucia Nicolau and published as Schimbul (Colectia Concepte în stiintele sociale, Bucharest: Editura du Style, 1998)
- John Davis, 'Tense in ethnography: Some practical considerations', in Judith Okely, ed., Autobiography and Anthropology (ASA Monographs, London: Routledge, 1992)
- John Davis, 'History and the people without Europe', in Kirsten Hastrup, ed., Other histories (London: Routledge, 1992), pp. 14-28
- John Davis, 'Trade in Kufra (Libya)', in Roy Dilley, ed., Contesting markets: Analyses of ideology, discourse and practice (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1992), pp. 115-127
- John Davis, 'Modelli del mediterraneo, in Tullia Magrini, ed., Antropologia della musica e culture mediterranee (Quaderni di Musica e storia 1, Venice: Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi and Società Editrice Il Mulino, 1993), pp. 89-106
- John Davis, 'Social Creativity', Annales de la Fundación Joaquín Costa 10 (1993), 251-62
- John Davis, 'Events and processes: Marriages in Libya, 1932-79', in Kirsten Hastrup, ed., Social Experience and Anthropological Knowledge (European Association of Social Anthropologists Monographs, London: Routledge, 1994), pp. 200-23
- John Davis, 'Social Creativity', in Christopher M. Hann, ed., When History Accelerates: Essays on rapid social change, complexity and creativity (London: Athlone, 1994), pp. 95-110
- John Davis, 'So wrong for so long? The values and limits of faith-free anthropology', Times Literary Supplement (22 March 1996), pp. 3-4
- John Davis, 'An anthropologist's view of exchange', Oxford Development Studies 24 (1996), 47-60
- John Davis, 'Ernest Gellner (1925-1995): Memorial Address', Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 27 (1996), 15
- John Davis, 'Irrationality in social life', in John A. Hall and Ian Jarvie, eds, The social philosophy of Ernest Gellner (Poznan studies in the philosophy of the sciences and the humanities 48, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996), pp. 445-63
- John Davis, 'Those shocking devotions' (review of Michael P. Carroll, Veiled Threats), Times Literary Supplement (28 March 1997), p. 7
- John Davis, 'Libyan Society', in Aharon Layish, Facsimiles from the Sijills of the Shari'a courts of Ajdabiya and Kufra (Jerusalem: Academon, 1998)
[edit] Sources and further information
- All Souls College, Oxford
- University of Oxford Calendar
- Anthropology at Oxford 1905-2005: A Centenary Conference
- British Academy
- Oxford University Gazette Supplement (1) to Gazette No. 4645 (22 January 2003, revised 6 February, 13 February, 20 February, and 27 February 2003
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