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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ann Patricia Bailey "Pat" Caplan, is a retired British anthropologist and academic. From 1989 to 2003, she was Professor of Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She was also the Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies between 1998 and 2000.
Pat Caplan's Published Works
Published Works
- The Cultural Construction of Sexuality (1987) (285)
- Food, health, and identity (1997) (233)
- Regionalism and national unity in Nepal (1976) (127)
- Gendered Fields: Women, Men and Ethnography (1993) (101)
- Approaches to the study of food, health and identity (2013) (86)
- Spirit Possession in the Nepal Himalayas (1977) (74)
- Widows in African Societies: Choices and Constraints (1987) (74)
- The Ethics of Anthropology: Debates and Dilemmas (2003) (71)
- Class and Gender in India: Women and Their Organizations in a South Indian City (1985) (68)
- Big society or broken society?: Food banks in the UK (2016) (55)
- Engendering Knowledge: The Politics of Ethnography, (Part 2) (1988) (55)
- Engendering Knowledge: The Politics of Ethnography (1988) (54)
- Mothers and Wives: Gusii Women of East Africa (1982) (45)
- African Voices, African Lives: Personal Narratives from a Swahili Village (1997) (42)
- Priests and cobblers;: A study of social change in a Hindu village in western Nepal (1973) (42)
- Poverty, Class and Gender in Rural Africa: a Tanzanian Case Study (1991) (41)
- Engendering knowledge: the politics of ethnography (Part 1) (1988) (39)
- Crossing the Veg/Non-Veg Divide: Commensality and Sociality Among the Middle Classes in Madras/Chennai (2008) (34)
- ‘NEVER AGAIN’: GENOCIDE MEMORIALS IN RWANDA (2007) (32)
- Win-win?: Food poverty, food aid and food surplus in the UK today (2017) (31)
- SWAHILI MODERNITIES : Culture, Politics, and Identity on the East Coast of Africa (2004) (29)
- Understanding disputes : the politics of argument (1996) (29)
- 'Bacon sandwiches got the better of me': meat-eating and vegetarianism in South-East London (2013) (28)
- Gendered Fields: Women, Men and Ethnography. (1997) (27)
- Urban pleasure? On the meaning of eating out in a northern city (1997) (25)
- In search of the exotic: A discussion of the BBC2 series Tribe (2005) (23)
- Too hard to swallow? The palatability of healthy eating advice (2013) (22)
- INTRODUCTION : Anthropology and ethics (2004) (19)
- Why do People Eat what they do? Approaches to Food and Diet from a Social Science Perspective (1996) (18)
- Between Socialism & Neo-Liberalism: Mafia Island, Tanzania, 1965-2004 (2007) (18)
- Cognatic Descent Groups on Mafia Island, Tanzania (1969) (18)
- ‘But the coast, of course, is quite different’: Academic and Local Ideas about the East African Littoral (2007) (18)
- Health, eating and heart attacks: Glaswegian Punjabi women's thinking about everyday food (2013) (17)
- The Cultural Construction of Sexuality. (1989) (14)
- Celibacy as a solution? Mahatma Gandhi and Brahmacharya (1985) (14)
- Development Policies in Tanzania: Some Implications For Women (1981) (14)
- Gender, Ideology and Modes of Production on the Coast of East Africa (1982) (13)
- 'Concepts of Healthy Eating: Approaches from a social science perspective.' (1998) (13)
- Perceptions of gender stratification (1989) (13)
- "Socialism from above; the view from below" (1992) (12)
- "'In my office we don't have closing hours: gendered household relations in a Swahili village in northern Mafia Island" (1995) (12)
- Women united, women divided : cross-cultural perspectives on female solidarity (1978) (11)
- "Learning Gender: field work in a Tanzanian coastal village, l965 85" (1993) (11)
- Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge: Feminist Anthropology in the Postmodern Era. (1993) (9)
- "Spirits and Sex: a Swahili informant and his diary". (1992) (9)
- Feasts, Fasts, Famine: Food for Thought (1994) (9)
- "Women's organisations in Madras city, India" (1978) (9)
- Being told what to eat: conversations in a Diabetes Day Centre (2013) (8)
- Women united, women divided : comparative studies of ten contemporary cultures (1979) (8)
- Monogamy, polygyny, or the single state? Changes in marriage patterns in a Tanzanian coastal village, 1965-94. (2000) (8)
- Distanciation or Identification: What Difference Does it Make? (1994) (7)
- Introduction 1: The context (2013) (7)
- Ascetics in Western Nepal (1976) (6)
- '"Children are our wealth and we want them": a difficult pregnancy on Mafia Island, Tanzania' (1995) (6)
- The Himalayan woman: A study of Limbu women in marriage and divorce (1978) (6)
- Struggling for food in a time of crisis: Responsibility and paradox (2020) (6)
- Anthropology, History and Personal Narratives: Reflections on Writing ‘African Voices, African Lives’ (1999) (5)
- Something for posterity or hostage to fortune? Archiving anthropological field material (2010) (5)
- Joiners and Non-Joiners : A South Indian City Suburb and its Women’s Club (1980) (5)
- The Way the World is: Cultural Processes and Social Relations Among the Mombasa Swahili. (1994) (5)
- ‘Child sacrifice in Uganda? The BBC, ‘witch doctors’ and anthropologists’ (2010) (5)
- ‘Struggling to be modern: recent letters from Mafia Island’ (2004) (4)
- Mikidadi: Individual Biography and National History in Tanzania (2016) (4)
- Food, Health and Identity: Approaches from the Social Sciences (1997) (4)
- Women's Voluntary Social Welfare Work in India: the Cultural Construction of Gender and Class. (1985) (4)
- Death on the Farm: culling badgers in North Pembrokeshire (2010) (3)
- ‘Understanding modernity/ies on Mafia Island, Tanzania: the idea of a moral community’ (2009) (3)
- Sustainable Development? Controversies over Prawn Farming on Mafia Island, Tanzania (2016) (3)
- We Are All Neighbours (1993) (3)
- Socialism from above in Tanzania: The view from below (1993) (3)
- ‘Cull or vaccinate? Badger politics in Wales’ (2012) (3)
- "The Swahili of Chole Island, Tanzania" (1978) (3)
- "Law and custom: marital disputes on Mafia Island, Tanzania" (1995) (3)
- "Gender, Ideology and Modes of Production on the East African coast" (1982) (3)
- Terror, Witchcraft and Risk (2006) (2)
- Women's voluntary social service in India - is it work? (1984) (2)
- 'Law' and 'Custom': Marital Disputes on Northern Mafia Island, Tanzania (2020) (2)
- Introduction: Anthropology and personal narratives (1997) (2)
- Where have all the young girls gone? Gender and sex ratios on Mafia Island, Tanzania. (1999) (2)
- 'Experiencing old age on Mafia Island, Tanzania' (1998) (2)
- Safari: Records of East Africa's Past (1973) (2)
- Women in the Anthropology Profession (1975) (2)
- ‘Is it Real Food?’ Who Benefits from Globalisation in Tanzania and India? (2006) (2)
- 'Anthropology as a moral discipline: social justice, ethics and human rights' (2002) (2)
- A ‘clash of civilizations’ on Mafia Island? The story of a dance festival. (2011) (2)
- ‘An anthropologist among the film-makers: A cautionary tale’. Part 2. ‘The politics of circulation’ (2013) (1)
- Woman, Culture and Society. (1975) (1)
- Indian Women, Illusion and Reality: a Review of Some Recent Books (1979) (1)
- 'Changing Swahili cultures in a globalising world: An approach from anthropology’ (2009) (1)
- The cross-cultural validity of feminism - a case study from Tanzania (1989) (1)
- The Way the World Is: Cultural Processes and Social Relations among the Mombasa Swahili@@@Les Swahili entre Afrique et Arabie (1994) (1)
- Class and gender in India : a study of women and their organizations in a south Indian city (1985) (1)
- ‘Two weddings in northern Mafia – changes in women’s lives since the 1960s’ (2015) (1)
- Engaging in 'Engaged' Anthropology: Some Pitfalls in a Development Consultancy (2014) (1)
- ‘Mikidadi wa Mafia: maisha ya mwanaharakati na familia yake nchini Tanzania’ (Mikidadi of Mafia: the life of an activist and his family in Tanzania). (2014) (1)
- Crossing the veg/non-veg divide: practising commensality among middle class women in Chennai (2008) (1)
- 'But is it real food? Responses to globalisation in Tanzania and India (2006) (1)
- "Women's Property, Islamic Law and Cognatic Descent" (1983) (1)
- Changing Swahili cultures and identities in a globalising world: an approach from anthropology. (2013) (1)
- Food poverty and food aid in 21st century UK: a view from anthropology (2017) (0)
- Plantation Slavery on the East Coast of Africa . By Frederick Cooper. New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 1977. Pp. xviii, 314, tables, maps, bibl. index. £13.40. (1979) (0)
- Mothers and Wives: Gusii Women of East Africa. By Sarah Levine. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press 1979. viii, 391 p., bibl. (1980) (0)
- Spirit Possession: A Means of Curing on Mafia Island, Tanzania (1979) (0)
- The Sacred Meadows: a Structural Analysis of Religious Symbolism in an East African Town . By Abdul Hamid El-Zein. Chicago: North-western University Press 1974. Pp. xxiii, 365, figs., maps, bibl., index. (1980) (0)
- Freud in Minazini? Consulting a Swahili diviner (2009) (0)
- ‘Food, environment and entitlement: local perceptions in three globalising settings: Case studies from Tanzania, South India and West Wales, UK’ (2009) (0)
- 'Children are Our Wealth and We Want Them': A Difficult Pregnancy on Northern Mafia Island, Tanzania (2020) (0)
- ‘Understanding difference, seeking transcendence: some personal reflections on a career in anthropology’ (2008) (0)
- Food, environment and entitlement (2009) (0)
- "Anthropology and the Study of Disputes" Introduction to (1995) (0)
- PHILIP HUGH GULLIVER, 1921-2018 (2018) (0)
- 'Anthropology in the new world (dis)order' Keynote lecture at the Annual Conference of South African Anthropologists (2003) (0)
- 'Eating British Beef with Confidence': perceptions of the risk of BSE in London and West Wales. (2000) (0)
- Introduction: Anthropology and the Study of Disputes (2020) (0)
- Uniting UK anthropology (2003) (0)
- ‘Death on the farm: badger culling in North Pembrokeshire’ (2013) (0)
- Bargaining With Spirits: Consulting a Swahili Diviner (2018) (0)
- Social/Cultural Anthropology: Social Class in Urban India: Essays on Cognitions and Structures. Edwin D. Driver and Aloo E. Driver (1989) (0)
- ‘It’s not Islamic!’ Changing views about what it means to be a good Muslim on Mafia Island, Tanzania (2018) (0)
- Towards a feminist ethics of anthropology (2005) (0)
- Muslim women in Mombasa, 18901975, Margaret Strobel. Yale University Press, Stanford, California (1979), Price, hardback £12.30 (1981) (0)
- ‘Joke Schrijvers: an Appreciation' (2002) (0)
- ‘Introduction: anthropology and risk’ (2000) (0)
- South India: Political Institutions and Political Change 1880–1940. By C. J. Baker and D. A. Washbrook. pp. 238. Delhi, The Macmillan Company of India, Ltd., 1975. (1977) (0)
- Hour-long interview with Alan Macfarlane for Anthropological Ancestors video archive. (2004) (0)
- Lynn Bennett. Dangerous Wives and Sacred Sisters: Social And Symbolic Roles of High–Caste Women in Nepal . Pp. 353, maps, diagrams, photos. (Columbia University Press, 1983.) (1985) (0)
- 'Food in middle-class households in Madras, 1974-94' (2000) (0)
- Victims of Development (1987) (0)
- Distanciation or differentiation - what difference does it make? (1994) (0)
- Betty Potash (ed.), Widows in African Societies: choices and constraints . Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1986, 309 pp., $35, ISBN 0 8047 1299 9. (1987) (0)
- "Hierarchy or Stratification: Two Case Studies from Nepal and East Africa" (1978) (0)
- Symposium discussion: life-span development of psychological aging. (1973) (0)
- Interview with Pat Caplan (2004) (0)
- ‘Can Risk Management Be Universal? The Significance of Cultural and Social Differences’ (2004) (0)
- Civilization and barbarism: an anthropological approach (2001) (0)
- ‘The Transcendent Subject? Biography as a medium for writing ‘life and times’’ (2015) (0)
- 'Health Professionals' Concepts of Healthy Eating' (1999) (0)
- Life in Swahili villages (2017) (0)
- Understanding Disputes: The Politics of Argument (Explorations in Anthropology) (1995) (0)
- 'Introduction: The ethics of anthropology’ (2002) (0)
- 'Risky Business: The Changing Landscapes of Anthropology' (2001) (0)
- Swahili Modernities: Identity, Power and Development on the East African Coast (2006) (0)
- Priests and Cobblers: Social Change in a Hindu Village in Western Nepal (1972) (0)
- Women, Work, and Ideology in the Third World@@@Women and Change in Latin America@@@Class and Gender in India: Women and Their Organizations in a South Indian City (1987) (0)
- A woman-oriented woman (1991) (0)
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