Centre for World Environmental History

Prof Brian Morris


BIOGRAPHY

B.Ed  (Sussex University)  PhD.  (LSE)


PRESENT POSITION

Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, University of London


CAREER

Foundry  assistant, Akrills Foundry, West Bromwich    1951-1955

Seaman-navigator     (National Service RASC Water Transport) Isle of Wight  1955-1957  

Aluminium moulder, WM Mills Foundry, West Bromwich   1957

Tea Planter, Blantyre and East Africa Ltd. Malawi   1958-1965

Lecturer/ Reader/ Professor in anthropology, Goldsmiths College   1973-2011


HONOURS  

Beamis Society (1959),

Honorary Chinese Boy Scout (1961),

Rivers Memorial Medal, Royal Anthropological Institute (2009)

 

RECREATIONS

Travel, bird-watching, allotment digging, rambling, protesting, books.

 

PUBLICATIONS

1970       The Orchids of Malawi,  Blantyre Society of Malawi

1982      Forest Traders: A Socio-economic Study of the Hill Pandaram  
             LSE Monographs,  London. Athlone Press                                                                                                                                              

1986      Common Weeds of Malawi  (with E A Banda)  Zomba University of Malawi

1987      Common Mushrooms of Malawi Fungiflori  Oslo University

             Anthropological Studies of Religion  Cambridge University Press

1991      Western Conceptions of the Individual  London, Berg

1993      Bakunin: The Philosophy of Freedom  Montreal, Black Rose Books

1994      Anthropology  of Self:  the Individual in Cultural Perspective.  London, Pluto Press

1996      Ecology and Anarchism: Essays and Reviews on Contemporary Thought.  Malvern Well: Images

             Chewa Medical Botany: A Study of Herbalism in Southern Malawi  International African Institute, Hamburg: Lit

1998      The Power of Animals: An Ethnography.  Oxford: Berg

2000      Animals and Ancestors: An Ethnography. Oxford : Berg

2004      Kropotkin: The Politics of Community. Amherst: Humanity Book

             Insects and Human Life.  Oxford : Berg

2006      Religion and Anthropology: a Critical Introduction   Cambridge University Press.

             The History and Conservation of Mammals in Malawi   Zomba: Kachere

             Richard Jefferies and the Ecological Vision.  Victoria: Trafford Publ.

             Ernest Thompson Seton: Founder of the Woodcraft Movement   Lamper : Edwin Mellen Press

2007     The Anarchist Geographer: an Introduction to the Life of Peter Kropotkin  Minehead : Genge Press 

2008     Wildlife and Landscapes in Malawi. Victoria : Trafford Publ.

 

ADDRESS

 18 Hillyfield, Lewes, East Sussex  BN7 1LA
b.morris@gold.ac.uk