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Jonathan Robert Spencer, FRSE, FBA (born 23 December 1954) is a British social anthropologist and academic. Since 2014, he has been the Regius Professor of South Asian Language, Culture and Society at the University of Edinburgh.
Mar 6, 2024 · This is the dynamic that Jonathan focuses on. To theorize elections not in their execution in specific places but as a ritual that proposes an ideal type for the political, we might think of the staging of a sacrifice and the willingness of the loser to accept defeat for the sake of a group.
Anthropology, politics and the state: Democracy and violence in South Asia. J Spencer. Cambridge University Press. , 2007. 448. 2007. The concept of society is theoretically obsolete. M...
Jonathan Spencer has 33 books on Goodreads with 2359 ratings. Jonathan Spencer’s most popular book is Napoleon's Run (William John Hazzard #1).
Jonathan Spencer. Actor: Pineapple Express. Jonathan (never "John") was a member of the Academy Theatre Teen Ensemble under the direction of Kenny Leon and Carol Mitchell-Leon in Atlanta,GA in the 1980s.
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Mar 6, 2024 · The essays in this forum celebrate Jonathan Spencer’s many contributions to anthropology, and were originally presented at a workshop held in Edinburgh in October 2023. Over his career Jonathan has produced an influential body of work on political anthropology and the anthropology of violence.
Jonathan Spencer has carried out fieldwork in Sri Lanka since the early 1980s, concentrating at first on rural change and local politics, but writing more recently on ethnic conflict, political violence and political non-violence.
