Nicholas Allen (anthropologist)
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Born | London, England | 8 July 1939
Died | 21 March 2020 | (aged 80)
Nationality | English |
Children | 2 |
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Academic advisors | Rodney Needham |
Influences | Georges Dumézil |
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Nicholas Justin Allen (8 July 1939 – 21 March 2020) was an English physician and social anthropologist who specialized in Indo-European studies. Allen was Viceregent at Wolfson College, Oxford and Anthropology Editor of the Journal of Indo-European Studies.
Biography
Nicholas Allen was born in
After graduating from
Allen began lecturing on social anthropology at Oxford University in 1976, becoming a Governing Body Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford. At Wolfson he distinguished himself as a teacher and researcher. He supervised a large number of doctoral students. From 1985 to 1987 he was Viceregent at Wolfson College. Allen was made Reader in the Social Anthropology of South Asia at Wolfson College in 1997, and served as Head of Department.[3] Allen retired from Wolfson as Emeritus Fellow at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography in 2001, but continued to teach and research.[3]
Allen's research centered on
Allen died on 21 March 2020.[2] He was survived by his wife Sheila and two daughters.[1][4]
Selected works
- Sketch of Thulung grammar, with three texts and a glossary, Cornell University China-Japan Program, 1975
- (Editor with R. Gombrich, T. Raychaudhuri and G. Rizvi) Oxford University Papers on India, OUP, 1986
- (Editor with W. S. F. Pickering and W. Watts Miller) On Durkheim’s Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Routledge, 1998a
- (Editor with W. James) Marcel Mauss: A Centenary Tribute, Berghahn, 1998b
- Categories and Classifications: Maussian Reflections on the Social, Berghhan, 2000
- (Editor and Translator) Marcel Mauss: Manual of Ethnography, Berghahn, 2007
- (Editor with Hilary Callan, Robin Dunbar and Wendy James) Early Human Kinship: From Sex to Social Reproduction, Blackwell, 2008
- Miyapma: Traditional Narratives of the Thulung Rai, Vajra Publications, 2015
- Arjuna–Odysseus: Shared Heritage in Indian and Greek Epic, Routledge, 2020
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f Allen, Nicholas. "CV (Nicholas Justin Allen)". Nick Allen Personal Page. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
- ^ a b c d Parkin 2020.
- ^ a b c d Vukovic 2020, p. 241.
- ^ a b Vukovic 2020, p. 240.
- ^ a b Allen, Nicholas. "Research Interest". Nick Allen Personal Page. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
- ^ Vukovic 2020, pp. 240–241.
Sources
- Parkin, Robert (24 March 2020). "Dr Nicholas Allen (1939-2020)". Wolfson College, Oxford. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
- Vukovic, Kresimir (2020). "In Memoriam Nicholas Justin Allen". Journal of Indo-European Studies. 48 (1–2): 240–242.
Further reading
- Allen, Nicholas (2010). "From mountains to mythologies". Ethnos. 68 (2). S2CID 144831909.
- Allen, Nicholas. "Publications". Nick Allen Personal Page. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
External links
- Nicholas Allen at LinkedIn
- Nicholas Allen at Academia.edu
- Home page of Nicholas Allen