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from a western country to be allowed to do fieldwork in the USSR. Her PhD (1973) focussed on Buryat religious iconography, and ensuing research topics have included Soviet collective farms, the farming economy in India and Tibet, Jainist culture in India, and environmental and cultural conservation
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Humphrey has conducted research in Siberia, Nepal, India, Mongolia, China (Inner Mongolia), Uzbekistan and Ukraine. In 1966, she was one of the first
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region of Inner Mongolia (China), where a distinctive form of Mongolian-language Buddhism has survived since the 18th century.
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since 1978. In 2010, she completed the manuscript of a monograph, jointly written with Hurelbaatar Ujeed, entitled
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In 1986 she co-founded the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit (MIASU) at Cambridge, together with
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Dotugadu Aziiya-yin Soyol kiged Baigal Orchim (Environment and Culture of Inner Asia, in Mongolian)
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Robertson, Alan. 1977. Conrad Hal Waddington. 8 November 1905 — 26 September 1975.
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Karl Marx Collective: Economy, Society and Religion in a Siberian Collective Farm
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Shamans and Elders: Experience, Knowledge and Power among the Daur Mongols
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The End of Nomadism? Society, the State and the Environment in Inner Asia
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The Archetypal Actions of Ritual, illustrated by the Jain rite of worship
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in 2017 for her outstanding contribution to the field of anthropology.
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Between 1971 and 1978, she undertook research, holding a fellowship at
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Property in Question: Value Transformation in the Global Economy
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to become Voluntary Research Director of MIASU in October 2010.
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The Unmaking of Soviet Life: Everyday Economies After Socialism
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Humphrey received a BA degree in Social Anthropology from
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Inner Asia Research: Caroline Humphrey's curriculum vitae
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in 1999, and, in 2003, an Honorary Doctorate from the
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Sigrid Rausing Professor of Collaborative Anthropology
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A Monastery in Time: The Making of Mongolian Buddhism
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A Monastery in Time: the Making of Mongolian Buddhism
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Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
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In 2004, she was elected to the 14: 861: 845:Alumni of the University of Leeds 733: 431:Shamanism, History and the State 309: 300:National University of Mongolia 129: 107: 815:University of Michigan faculty 810:Fellows of the British Academy 705: 694: 682: 663: 621: 609: 554: 538: 422:(ed. with Stephen Hugh-Jones) 415:(ed. with Michael Carrithers) 398:American Philosophical Society 344:Scott Polar Research Institute 217:Scott Polar Research Institute 1: 790:British women anthropologists 532: 510:(ed. with Katherine Verdery) 168:St George's School, Edinburgh 603:UK public library membership 273:Margaret Justin Blanco White 262: 149:Margaret Justin Blanco White 7: 740:Caroline Humphrey interview 701:Fellows of Robinson College 497: 429:(ed. with Nicholas Thomas) 394:Robinson College, Cambridge 10: 866: 618:; accessed 31 August 2014. 424:Barter, Exchange and Value 379: 628:Caroline Humphrey profile 524:(with Hurelbaatar Ujeed) 485:(ed. with A. Tulokhonov) 388:, Humphrey was appointed 366:King's College, Cambridge 364:She has been a Fellow of 340:Girton College, Cambridge 288:Girton College, Cambridge 226: 221:King's College, Cambridge 213:Girton College, Cambridge 204: 194: 189: 180:Girton College, Cambridge 173: 163: 158: 154: 140: 84: 76: 68: 46: 23: 800:British women scientists 495:(ed. with David Sneath) 458:(ed. with David Sneath) 275:(daughter of the writer 785:British anthropologists 675:21 January 2020 at the 403: 359:University of Cambridge 348:University of Cambridge 209:University of Cambridge 30:The Lady Rees of Ludlow 578:10.1093/ref:odnb/31790 465:(with Piers Vitebsky) 326:Research and positions 825:Spouses of life peers 633:12 March 2011 at the 386:2011 New Year Honours 342:and at a post at the 296:Rivers Memorial Medal 717:search.amphilsoc.org 713:"APS Member History" 478:(with David Sneath) 304:University of Bolton 269:Conrad H. Waddington 26:The Right Honourable 467:Sacred Architecture 294:. 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The Right Honourable
DBE
FBA
Nicholas Humphrey
Martin Rees
C. H. Waddington
Margaret Justin Blanco White
St George's School, Edinburgh
Alma mater
Girton College, Cambridge
University of Leeds
Anthropology
University of Cambridge
Girton College, Cambridge
Scott Polar Research Institute
King's College, Cambridge
DBE
FBA
anthropologist
Conrad H. Waddington
Margaret Justin Blanco White
Amber Reeves
Dusa McDuff
Girton College, Cambridge
Rivers Memorial Medal
National University of Mongolia
University of Bolton
Nicholas Humphrey
Martin Rees
Anthropologist

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