Anthony Cohen

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Anthony Cohen is affiliated with the following schools: Victoria University of Manchester, University of Edinburgh, Queen Margaret University, University of Geneva, Memorial University of Newfoundland, University of Manchester, University of Southampton

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#361

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PhD Anthropology University of Manchester

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According to Wikipedia, Anthony Cohen, CBE, FRSE is a British social anthropologist and served as Principal of Edinburgh’s Queen Margaret University. Cohen was born in London in 1946. Educated at Whittingehame College, Brighton, the University of Geneva and the University of Southampton, he is a social anthropologist with specialist interests in personal, social and national identity. He conducted fieldwork in Springdale, Newfoundland on local-level politics; and in Whalsay , the longest sustained study of a rural British community ever undertaken. He then did research on personal and national identity in Scotland, and on the literary influences on Scottishness.

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The symbolic construction of community (2013) (1061)
Self Consciousness: An Alternative Anthropology of Identity (1994) (501)
Belonging : identity and social organisation in British rural cultures (1984) (263)
personal nationalism: a Scottish view of some rites, rights, and wrongs (1996) (176)
Symbolising boundaries : identity and diversity in British cultures (1986) (148)
Signifying identities : anthropological perspectives on boundaries and contested values (2000) (145)
Whalsay: Symbol, Segment, and Boundary in a Shetland Island Community (1988) (133)
Culture As Identity: An Anthropologist's View (1993) (97)
Belonging: Identity and Social Organisation in British Rural Cultures. (1984) (56)
Self-conscious anthropology (1992) (54)
Questions of Consciousness (1995) (42)
The Very Idea (1994) (39)
Post-Fieldwork Fieldwork (1992) (32)
Symbolism and Social Change: Matters of Life and Death in Whalsay, Shetland (1985) (32)
Celtic Ethnic Kinship and the Problem of Being English [and Comments and Replies] (1986) (30)
The management of myths: The politics of legitimation in a Newfoundland community (1975) (22)
Introduction : Consciousness in anthropology (2003) (21)
‘the Same—But Different’: The Allocation of Identity in Whalsay, Shetland (1978) (18)
Culture, identity and the concept of boundary. (1994) (17)
Cultural Politics in New Zealand (1990) (16)
Oculomotor control in Gilles de la Tourette syndrome. (1988) (15)
ETHNOGRAPHIC METHOD IN THE REAL COMMUNITY (1978) (14)
Village on the Border, Anthropology at the Crossroads: The Significance of a Classic British Ethnography (2005) (11)
The Tactical Uses of Passion: An Essay on Power, Reason and Reality. (1986) (10)
Humanising the City?Social Contexts of Urban Life at the Turn of the Millennium (1994) (10)
Peripheral vision: nationalism, national identity and the objective correlative in Scotland (2012) (9)
Signifying Identities : Anthropological Perspectives on Boundaries and Contested Identities (2012) (9)
For a political ethnography of everyday life: Sketches from Whalsay, Shetland (1977) (8)
The Definition of Public Identity: Managing Marginality in Outport Newfoundland following Confederation (1975) (7)
Segmentary knowledge: a Whalsay sketch (2002) (6)
Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics In the Nation-State:Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics In the Nation-State. (1998) (5)
Nationalism and Social Identity: Who owns the interest of Scotland? (1997) (4)
The Social Anthropology of Britain, and the Question of 'Otherness' (1986) (4)
11. Owning the Nation, and the Personal Nature of Nationalism: Locality and the Rhetoric of Nationhood in Scotland (1996) (3)
A Walk on the Underground Railroad. (2001) (3)
Clonidine in Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome (1987) (3)
Working the Ground (2018) (3)
Morality and Expediency: The Folklore of Academic Politics (1978) (3)
Saint Pascal: Changing Leaders and Social Organization in a Quebec Town. (1976) (2)
Ownership, responsibility, and the rhetoric of nationalism: A Scottish case (1995) (2)
The ‘Best of British’ – with More to Come … (2020) (1)
Rhetorics of Self‐making. DEBBORA BATTAGLIA, ed (1995) (1)
[Gilles de la Tourette syndrome]. (1988) (1)
Barth, ethnicity and culture (2018) (1)
The neglected self: anthropological traditions (2002) (1)
Review: Scots' Crisis of Confidence (2004) (1)
The twenty-first century city: a British perspective (1993) (1)
Communities of Meaning (2013) (1)
Social Science and Democratic Theory (1973) (1)
The Trail Life and Stress in an Arctic Community (1976) (1)
The seductions of community: emancipations, oppressions, quandaries – Edited by Gerald W. Creed (2008) (0)
The Village of Pentrediwaith: A Classic of British Ethnography (2007) (0)
Rites of initation and the mystery of the self (1992) (0)
Bendixsen, Synnøve K.N. & EdvardHviding (eds). Anthropology in Norway: directions, locations, relations. x, 141 pp., illus., bibliogrs. Canon Pyon, Heref.: Sean Kingston Publishing, 2021. £25.00 (paper) (2022) (0)
The Form of Sociology: Paradigms and Crises. (1977) (0)
The Tory Islanders: A People of the Celtic Fringe (1980) (0)
Review: Being Scottish/Being Irish (2003) (0)
American Educator; A Walk on th Underground Railroad; 2000-2001 (2017) (0)
Symbolizing the Boundary (2013) (0)
Firth, Raymond. 1996. Religion: Humanist Interpretation. London: Routledge. (1996) (0)
Understanding National Identity (2016) (0)
Reviews : Clifford Geertz, Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author, Oxford: Polity Press, 1988, £19.50, vi + 157 pp (1989) (0)

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