Bruce Kapferer

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Bruce Kapferer is affiliated with the following schools: University of Bergen, University College London, University of Sydney, University of Gothenburg, University of Adelaide, University of Manchester

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Bruce Kapferer

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#212

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#315

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PhD Anthropology University of Adelaide

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According to Wikipedia, Bruce Kapferer is an Australian anthropologist. He is best known for his work on Sri Lanka, Australia and Zambia. He has been at the forefront of anthropological debate for over three decades. He was honoured with Huxley Prize in 2011 by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain.

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Bruce Kapferer's Published Works

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Published Works

Violence and the Social Construction of Ethnic Identity (2000) (966)
Legends of People, Myths of State: Violence, Intolerance, and Political Culture in Sri Lanka and Australia (1988) (498)
A celebration of demons: Exorcism and the aesthetics of healing in Sri Lanka (1983) (196)
The Feast of the Sorcerer: Practices of Consciousness and Power (1997) (146)
Transaction and Meaning: Directions in the Anthropology of Exchange and Symbolic Behaviour (1977) (141)
Ritual Dynamics and Virtual Practice: Beyond Representation and Meaning (2004) (136)
Situations, Crisis, and the Anthropology of the Concrete: The Contribution of Max Gluckman (2005) (106)
Introduction: In the Event—toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments (2010) (99)
Strategy and transaction in an African factory: African workers and Indian management in a Zambian town (1972) (92)
The Distancing of Emotion in Ritual [and Comments and Reply] (1977) (82)
6 Social network and conjugal role in urban Zambia: Towards a reformulation of the Bott hypothesis (1973) (76)
Us and Them in Modern Societies: Ethnicity and Nationalism in Mauritius, Trinidad and Beyond (1992) (69)
Forms of Joking Activity: A Comparative Approach1 (1972) (69)
Nationalist ideology and a comparative anthropology (1989) (59)
Introduction: Outside all reason - magic, sorcery and epistemology in anthropology (2002) (59)
mind, self, and other in demonic illness: the negation and reconstruction of Self (1979) (55)
Writing Within: Anthropology, Nationalism, and Culture in Sri Lanka [and Comments and Reply] (1990) (54)
New formations of power, the oligarchic-corporate state, and anthropological ideological discourse (2005) (53)
Anthropology and the Dialectic of Enlightenment: A Discourse on the Definition and Ideals of a Threatened Discipline (2007) (48)
How anthropologists think: configurations of the exotic (2013) (45)
Star Wars: About Anthropology, Culture and Globalisation (2000) (34)
What Is Analysis?: Between Theory, Ethnography, and Method (2018) (31)
A Celebration of Demons: Exorcism and the Aesthetics of Healing in Sri Lanka. (1984) (31)
Beyond rationalism : rethinking magic, witchcraft and sorcery (2003) (29)
The Anthropologist as Hero. Three Exponents of Post-Modernist Anthropology (1988) (29)
Back to the future (2014) (27)
The retreat of the social : the rise and rise of reductionism (2005) (27)
Anthropology. The paradox of the secular (2001) (24)
Aesthetics in performance : formations of symbolic construction and experience (2004) (24)
The Australian Society of the State: Egalitarian Ideologies and New Directions in Exclusionary Practice (2003) (22)
Cultural Logic and Maya Identity. Rethinking constructivism and essentialism. Commentaries. Author's reply (1999) (22)
The Aporia of Power: Crisis and the Emergence of the Corporate State (2010) (20)
The Anthropology of Europe : identity and boundaries in conflict (1996) (19)
Louis Dumont and a Holist Anthropology (2011) (19)
Understanding Witchcraft and Sorcery in Southeast Asia (1998) (19)
Review Article : The Antropologist As Hero (1988) (17)
Gramsci's Body and a Critical Medical Anthropology (1988) (17)
Introduction: Old Permutations, New Formations? War, State, and Global Transgression (2004) (16)
Symbolic types, mediation and the transformation of ritual context: Sinhalese demons and Tewa clowns (1980) (16)
Foundation and Empire (with apologies to Isaac Asimov): A Consideration of Hardt and Negri's Empire (2002) (14)
Sorcery, Modernity and the Constitutive Imaginary: Hybridising Continuities (2002) (13)
Ethnic Nationalism and the Discourses of Violence in Sri Lanka (2001) (12)
Contemporary religiosities : emergent socialities and the post-nation-state (2010) (11)
Theoretical orientation in the study of labour migration. (1970) (10)
Introduction: Oligarchic Corporations and New State Formations (2005) (10)
Remythologizing Discourses: State and Insurrectionary Violence in Sri Lanka (1997) (9)
BEYOND SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION VICTOR TURNER AND VARIATIONS ON THE THEMES OF RITUAL PROCESS AND LIMINALITY (2009) (9)
From the edge of death: Sorcery and the motion of consciousness (1995) (9)
Introduction: The Social Construction of Reductionist Thought and Practice (2004) (9)
Structural Marginality and the Urban Social Order. (1978) (9)
‘Anthropologists Are Talking’ About Anthropology After Globalisation (2007) (7)
The World Trade Center and Global Crisis: Some Critical Perspectives (2002) (7)
Religiosities toward a Future: In Pursuit of the New Millennium (2009) (7)
A Sinhala Village in a Time of Trouble: Politics and Change in Rural Sri Lanka. JONATHAN SPENCER (1992) (6)
Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience. GANANTH OBEYESEKERE (1984) (6)
Coda: Recollections and Refutations (2005) (6)
Ethnicity, nationalism and the culture of the state: the 17th Edvard Westermarck Memorial Lecture (2002) (6)
Introduction:: Reconceptualizing the Discipline (2018) (5)
Crisis and communitas: Victor Turner and social process (2019) (5)
Victor Turner and The ritual process (2019) (4)
Thought and Practice (2016) (4)
The new Leviathan and the crisis of criticism in the social sciences (2002) (4)
Strathern’s New Comparative Anthropology: Thoughts from Hagen and Zambia (2011) (3)
Sexuality and the Art of Seduction in Sinhalese Exorcism (2000) (3)
Nationalism and neo-populism in Australia: Hansonism and the politics of the New Right in Australia (2006) (3)
THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF MAX GLUCKMAN (2016) (3)
Comment: Interrogating the new-pluralist orthodoxy in American Anthropology (2008) (2)
The Social Construction of Reductionist Thought and Practice (2004) (2)
Anthropology at risk (2018) (2)
Aesthetics in Performance: The Aesthetics of Symbolic Construction and Experience (2006) (2)
The Performance of Categories: Plays of Identity in Africa and Australia (2020) (2)
Introduction:: Critical Ruptures (2019) (2)
Beyond Symbolic Representation (2008) (1)
Co-operation, leadership and village structure : a preliminary economic and political study of ten Bisa villages in the Northern Province of Zambia (1967) (1)
IntroductIon: Against Exoticism (2016) (1)
G. Kingsley Garbett 1935-2006 (2006) (1)
Legends of People, Myths of State (2022) (1)
2001 and Counting: Kubrick, Nietzsche, and Anthropology (2014) (1)
GENERAL/THEORETICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Cultural Complexity: Studies in the Social Organization of Meaning. Ulf Hannerz (1994) (1)
SOCIAL/CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Buddhism Betrayed? Religion, Politics, and Violence in Sri Lanka. Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah (1994) (1)
Oligarchie Corporations and New State Formations (2016) (1)
A Celebration of Demons (2021) (1)
An Introduction to Egalitarian Thought and Dynamics (2022) (1)
The sorcery of consciousness: a Sinhala Buddhist discourse on the dynamics of consciousness (2000) (1)
Beyond Ritual as Performance. Towards Ritual as Dynamics and Virtuality (2010) (0)
The Cult of the Goddess Pattini. GANANATH OBEYESEKERE (1985) (0)
Cosmology and the mythic in Kubrick’s 2001 (2016) (0)
Music, Dance and Trance (2021) (0)
The Comedy of Gods and Demons (2021) (0)
Reconceptualizing the Discipline k (2018) (0)
Introduction: Populism and its Paradox (2019) (0)
Epilogue: A Celebration of Demons (2021) (0)
Demonic Illness: Diagnosis and Social Context (2021) (0)
Exorcists (2021) (0)
George Kingsley Garbett, 1935–2006 (2006) (0)
Post-war realities in Sri Lanka (2012) (0)
The Demonic Illusion: Demons and the Cosmic Hierarchy (2021) (0)
Fusion of the Worlds: An Ethnography of Possession among the Songhay of Niger. PAUL STOLLER (1992) (0)
AFTERWORD. (2020) (0)
The Theater of the Mahābhārata: Terukkūttu Performances in South India. RICHARD A. FRASCA (1993) (0)
Comment: Interrogating the new-pluralist orthodoxy (2008) (0)
Introduction (2021) (0)
AFTERWORD.: Towards the Era of the Post-Human (2020) (0)
Exorcism, Class and Change in Urban Sri Lanka (2021) (0)
D umont, L ouis (1911–98) (2018) (0)
Afterword: A Parthian Shot (2018) (0)
The Exorcism of the Great Cemetery Demon: Event and Structure in Major Exorcisms (2021) (0)
A Note on Gluckman’s 1930s Fieldwork in Natal (2014) (0)
Exorcisms and the Symbolic Identity of Women (2021) (0)
G luckman, M ax (1911–75) (2018) (0)
Response to Thomas Blom Hansen’s review (2013) (0)
In positions to do great damage (2005) (0)
1. The Cosmic Vortex and Don Handelman’s Anthropological Vision: A Personal View (2014) (0)
Chapter Six SORCERY AND THE BEAUTIFUL A Discourse on the Aesthetics of Ritual g (2005) (0)
Introduction: (2019) (0)
The events at the Capitol and the Trump mediation (2021) (0)
Towards the Era of the Post-Human (2020) (0)

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