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Caroline Humphrey Professor Dame Caroline Humphrey, Lady Rees of Ludlow, DBE, FBA (n?

e Waddington, born 1 September 1943) is a British academician and anthropologist. Biography Humphrey's father was the biologist Conrad H. Waddington.[1] Humphrey received h er BA in Social Anthropology from Girton College, Cambridge. Her PhD, completed in 1973, was entitled 'Magical Drawings in the Religion of the Buryat'. Humphrey received the Rivers Memorial Medal from the Royal Anthropological Institute in 1999, and, in 2003, an Honorary Doctorate from the National University of Mongol ia.[2] Personal life In 1967, Caroline Waddington married Nicholas Humphrey; they had no children and divorced in 1977. In 1986, she married Martin Rees, and became Lady Rees upon h er husbands becoming a knight bachelor in 1992. Research and Positions Humphrey has conducted extensive research in Siberia, Nepal, India, Mongolia, Ch ina (Inner Mongolia), Uzbekistan and Ukraine. In 1966, she was one of the first anthropologists 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 T ibet, Jainist culture in India, and environmental and cultural conservation in I nner Asia.[3] Between 1971 and 1978, she undertook research and official fellowships at Girton College, Cambridge and at the Scott Polar Research Institute. From 1978 to 1983 she lectured at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Camb ridge, before becoming a Director of Studies in Archaeology and Anthropology in 1984-89, and 1992-96. Humphrey has held the posts of University Reader in Asian Anthropology, University of Cambridge, 1995-8; University Professor of Asian Ant hropology, 1998 2006; Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan, 2000; and Rausing Professorship of Collaborative Anthropology, 2006 2010. She co-founded the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit (MIASU) in 1986 at Cambr idge. She retired from her post as Sigrid Rausing Professor of Collaborative Ant hropology at the University of Cambridge to become Voluntary Research Director o f MIASU in October 2010.[4] She has been a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge s ince 1978. In 2010, she completed the manuscript of a monograph, jointly authored with Hure lbaatar Ujeed, entitled A Monastery in Time: the Making of Mongolian Buddhism. T he book was the culmination of much fieldwork and visits, from 1995, to Mergen M onastery in the Urad region of Inner Mongolia (China), where a distinctive form of Mongolian-language Buddhism has been upheld since the 18th century. Honours Caroline Humphrey, Lady Rees was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the Briti sh Empire (DBE) for services to scholarship in the 2010 New Year Honours list.[5 ] Work Karl Marx Farm [Staley (ed. with 991) (ed. with (ed. with Collective: Economy, Society and Religion in a Siberian Collective Prize, School of American Research] (1983) Michael Carrithers) The Assembly of Listeners: Jains in Society (1 Stephen Hugh-Jones) Barter, Exchange and Value (1992) Nicholas Thomas) Shamanism, History and the State (1994)

(with James Laidlaw) The Archetypal Actions of Ritual, illustrated by the Ja in rite of worship (1994) (with Urgunge Onon) Shamans and Elders: Experience, Knowledge and Power amon g the Daur Mongols (1996) (ed. with David Sneath) Culture and Environment in Inner Asia (1996) (with Piers Vitebsky) Sacred Architecture (1997) [This is a popular work] Marx Went Away, but Karl Stayed Behind (1998) (with David Sneath) The End of Nomadism? Society, the State and the Environm ent in Inner Asia (1999) (ed. with A. Tulokhonov) Kul'tura i Priroda vo Vnutrenneyi Azii (Culture and Environment in Inner Asia, in Russian) (2001) (ed. with David Sneath) Dotugadu Aziiya-yin Soyol kiged Baigal Orchim (Envir onment and Culture of Inner Asia, in Mongolian) (2002) The Unmaking of Soviet Life: Everyday Economies After Socialism [Heldt Prize ] (2002) (ed. with Katherine Verdery) Property in Question: Value Transformation in t he Global Economy (2004) (ed. with Catherine Alexander and Victor Buchli) Urban Life in Post-Soviet C entral Asia (2007) External links Caroline Humphrey interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 5th August 2010 (film) References ^ Robertson, Alan. 1977. Conrad Hal Waddington. 8 November 1905 26 September 1975. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 23, 575-622. P. 578 ^ Caroline Humphrey profile, CAM magazine ^ Inner Asia Research: Caroline Humphrey ^ Inner Asia Research: Caroline Humphrey's curriculum vitae ^ Directgov: New Year Honours List (2010)

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