Brian Morris (anthropologist)

Brian Morris
Born	(1936-10-18) 18 October 1936 (age 88)
Alma mater	Brighton College of Education London School of Economics
Occupation	Anthropologist
Employer	Goldsmiths, University of London
Website	brianmorris.org.uk

Brian Morris (born 18 October 1936) is emeritus professor of anthropology at Goldsmiths College at the University of London. He is a specialist on folk taxonomy, ethnobotany and ethnozoology, and on religion and symbolism. ^[1] He has carried out fieldwork among South Asian hunter-gatherers and in Malawi. Groups that he has studied include the Ojibwa. ^[2] He has also written widely on the history of ideas and in particular on anarchism.

Biography

Brian Morris was born in the Black Country. He left school at fifteen. ^[3]

He worked as a tea planter in Malawi. ^[4] He became an anarchist in the mid-1960s, and remained active in several protests and political movements. ^[5] He later received a doctorate in social anthropology at the London School of Economics, doing his PhD ethnographic fieldwork with Malaipantaram hunter-gatherers in Southern India. ^[4]

He has written books and articles on ecology, botany, ethnobotany and ethnobiology, political philosophy, religion, anthropology, and social anarchism. His 2004 Kropotkin: The Politics of Community, published by PM Press, locates anarchist thinker Peter Kropotkin within intellectual history as a theorist of social science, power, and ecology. ^[6]

Books

• Forest Traders: a Socio-economic Study of the Hill Pandaram (1982), Humanities Press
• Anthropological Studies of Religion (1987), Cambridge University Press, ISBN   0-521-33991-X
• Bakunin: The Philosophy of Freedom (1993), Black Rose Books, ISBN   1-895431-66-2
• Anthropology Of The Self: The Individual In Cultural Perspective (1994)
• The Power Of Animals (1998), Berg
• Western Conceptions of the Individual (1991) Berg, ISBN   0-85496-698-6
• Animals and Ancestors: An Ethnography (2000), Berg
• Insects and Human Life (2004), Berg, ISBN   1-85973-847-8
• Kropotkin: The Politics of Community (2004), ISBN   978-1-59102-158-2
• The History and Conservation of Mammals in Malawi (2004), Kachere Series (Zomba), ISBN   99908-76-69-X
• Common Mushrooms of Malawi (1987) Fungiflora A/S, ISBN   82-90724-00-4
• Religion And Anthropology: A Critical Introduction (2006), Cambridge University Press
• Ernest Thompson Seton, Founder of the Woodcraft Movement 1860-1946: Apostle of Indian Wisdom and Pioneer Ecologist (2007), Edwin Mellen Press (Lewiston), ISBN   0773454748
• The Anarchist Geographer: An Introduction to the Life of Peter Kropotkin (2012), Genge Press (Minehead)
• Pioneers of Ecological Humanism (2012), Book Guild Publishing (Brighton), ISBN   978-1-84624-866-5
• Anthropology, Ecology, and Anarchism: A Brian Morris Reader (2014), PM Press, ISBN   978-1-60486-093-1
• Pioneers of Ecological Humanism: Mumford, Dubos, and Bookchin (2017), Black Rose Books, ISBN   978-1-55164-607-7
• Visions of Freedom: Critical Writings on Ecology and Anarchism (2018), Black Rose Books, ISBN   978-1-55164-644-2
• Kropotkin: The Politics of Community (2018), PM Press, ISBN   978-1-62963-505-7
• Anthropology and Dialectical Naturalism: A Philosophical Manifesto (2020), Black Rose Books, ISBN   978-1-55164-742-5

References

1. "Professor Brian Morris BEd PhD". Goldsmiths, University of London. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
2. Smith, Sam (December 2006). "Dealing With Myths". Scoop . Retrieved 5 August 2012.
3. Morris, Brian (20 February 2024). "Chapter One: My Early Life". Trail of an Intellectual Nomad: My Encounters with People and Wildlife in India and Malawi. Luviri Press. pp. 11–54. doi:10.2307/jj.13049260.4. ISBN   978-99960-80-31-9 . Retrieved 15 April 2025.
4. Barnard, Alan (2017). "Morris, Brian (introduction by Peter Marshall). Anthropology, ecology, and anarchism: a Brian Morris reader. xx, 252 pp, bibliogr. London: PM Press, 2015. £21.99 (paper)" . Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 23 (3): 657–657. doi:10.1111/1467-9655.12687. ISSN   1359-0987 . Retrieved 16 May 2025.
5. "Brian Morris". PM Press. 25 September 2019. Retrieved 15 April 2025.
6. "'Kropotkin: The Politics of Community' by Brian Morris, reviewed by Brendan Harvey". Marx & Philosophy Society – Marx & Philosophy Society. 22 October 2019. Retrieved 16 April 2025.

External links

• Official website