Alan Barnard
Professor
social and political science
The University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Biography
Professor Alan Barnard FBA Professor Emeritus; Honorary Professorial Fellow; formerly Professor of the Anthropology of Southern Africa
Research Interest
comparative ethnography in southern Africa contemporary hunter-gatherers the history of anthropology social anthropology and human origins origins of language and symbolic thought the co-evolution of language and kinship the interface between archaeology and social anthropology
Publications
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'Mythology and the evolution of language'. In Andrew D.M. Smith, Marieke Schouwstra, Bart de Boer and Kenny Smith (eds), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference (EVOLANG8). Singapore: World Scientific Press. pp 11-18. (2010)
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'Culture: the indigenous account'. In Deborah James, Evlie Place and Christina Toren (eds), Culture Wars: Context, Models, and Anthropologists' Accounts (EASA Series, Vol. 12). New York: Berhgahn Books. pp 73-85. (2010)
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‘When individuals do not stop at the skin’. In Robin Dunbar, Clive Gamble and John Gowlett (eds), Social Brain, Distributed Mind (Proceedings of the British Academy, 158). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp 253-72. (2010)
