Janet Carsten

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Janet Carsten
FBA, FRSE
Occupation(s)Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Janet Carsten

FRSE is an anthropologist and professor currently employed at the University of Edinburgh.[1] Carsten studies social and cultural anthropology.[1] She is the daughter of the British historian Francis Ludwig Carsten.[2]

Research and career

Carsten has conducted research in

Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture in 2012. During a three-year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship from September 2007-10 she conducted research on articulations between popular and medical ideas about blood in Britain and Malaysia.[1]

Carsten is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the British Academy.[1][3] Carsten is currently a Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh.[1]

Published works

Books

2021 Marriage in Past, Present and Future Tense. (Edited with H-Chiu, S.Magee, E.Papadaki, K.Reece). UCL Press.

2019 Blood Work: Life and Laboratories in Penang. Duke University Press. Introduction

2018 Reason and Passion: The Parallel Worlds of Ethnography and Biography (edited with Sophie Day and Charles Stafford). Special Issue, Social Anthropology, Vol. 26 No.1

2013 Blood Will Out: Essays on Liquid Transfers and Flows (edited). Special Issue, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 19, and separate book publication, Wiley Blackwell.

2007 Ghosts of Memory: Essays on Remembrance and Relatedness (edited). Blackwell.

2004 After Kinship. Cambridge University Press.

2000 Cultures of Relatedness: New Approaches to the Study of Kinship (edited). Cambridge University Press.

1997 The Heat of the Hearth: The Process of Kinship in a Malay Fishing Community. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

1995 About the House: Lévi-Strauss and Beyond (edited with Stephen Hugh-Jones). Cambridge University Press.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "School of Social and Political Science: Staff profiles : Janet Carsten". www.sps.ed.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2017-11-24. Retrieved 2017-11-18.
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  3. ^ "Professor Janet Carsten". British Academy. Retrieved 2017-11-18. and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.