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Centre for World Environmental History

Prof Brian Morris


BIOGRAPHY

B.Ed  (Βι¶ΉΣ³»­ University)  PhD.  (LSE)


PRESENT POSITION

Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, University of London


CAREER

Foundry  assistant, Akrills Foundry, West Bromwich    1951-1955

Seaman-navigator     (National Service RASC Water Transport) Isle of Wight  1955-1957  

Aluminium moulder, WM Mills Foundry, West Bromwich   1957

Tea Planter, Blantyre and East Africa Ltd. Malawi   1958-1965

Lecturer/ Reader/ Professor in anthropology, Goldsmiths College   1973-2011


HONOURS  

Beamis Society (1959),

Honorary Chinese Boy Scout (1961),

Rivers Memorial Medal, Royal Anthropological Institute (2009)

 

RECREATIONS

Travel, bird-watching, allotment digging, rambling, protesting, books.

 

PUBLICATIONS

1970       The Orchids of Malawi,  Blantyre Society of Malawi

1982      Forest Traders: A Socio-economic Study of the Hill Pandaram  
             LSE Monographs,  London. Athlone Press                                                                                                                                              

1986      Common Weeds of Malawi  (with E A Banda)  Zomba University of Malawi

1987      Common Mushrooms of Malawi Fungiflori  Oslo University

             Anthropological Studies of Religion  Cambridge University Press

1991      Western Conceptions of the Individual  London, Berg

1993      Bakunin: The Philosophy of Freedom  Montreal, Black Rose Books

1994      Anthropology  of Self:  the Individual in Cultural Perspective.  London, Pluto Press

1996      Ecology and Anarchism: Essays and Reviews on Contemporary Thought.  Malvern Well: Images

             Chewa Medical Botany: A Study of Herbalism in Southern Malawi  International African Institute, Hamburg: Lit

1998      .  Oxford: Berg

2000      . Oxford : Berg

2004      Kropotkin: The Politics of Community. Amherst: Humanity Book

             .  Oxford : Berg

2006      Religion and Anthropology: a Critical Introduction   Cambridge University Press.

                Zomba: Kachere

             .  Victoria: Trafford Publ.

             Ernest Thompson Seton: Founder of the Woodcraft Movement   Lamper : Edwin Mellen Press

2007       Minehead : Genge Press 

2008     Wildlife and Landscapes in Malawi. Victoria : Trafford Publ.

 

ADDRESS

 18 Hillyfield, Lewes, East Βι¶ΉΣ³»­  BN7 1LA
b.morris@gold.ac.uk