David Mosse
Professor
Department of Anthropology and Sociology
School of Oriental and African Studies University of London
United Kingdom
Biography
David Mosse is Professor of Social Anthropology. He studied social anthropology at Oxford University from where he received a DPhil. He has published extensively on the anthropology of religion, environment and development. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and on the editorial boards of World Development, American Ethnologist and Journal of Development Studies. He has worked for Oxfam as Representative for South India, and for other international development agencies as a social development adviser. He joined SOAS in 1997 and was appointed to Governing Body in September 2013.
Research Interest
Anthropology
Publications
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Mosse, David (2013) 'The Anthropology of International Development'. Annual Review of Anthropology, (42), pp 227-246.
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Mosse, David (2015) 'Misunderstood, misrepresented, contested? Anthropological knowledge production in question'. Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, (72), pp 128-137.
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Mosse, David and Jadhav, Sushrut and Dostaler, Ned (2016) 'Minds of caste – Discrimination and its Affects'. Anthropology Today, (32) 1, pp 1-2.
