Position:
Retired Reader, Social Anthropology of South Asia
Faculty / College Address:
Oriental Institute / Wolfson College
Email:
nick.allen@anthro.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests:
- Himalayan and South Asian ethnography
- Comparativism relating to social structure, kinship, and mythology
Current Projects:
- Comparative studies of Indo-European epic, esp. Homer and the Mahābhârata
- The biography of the Buddha
Recent Publications:
- 2003 The Indra-Tullus comparison. In Indo-European Language and Culture: Essays in Memory of Edgar C. Polomé, part I, ed. B. Drinka & J. Salmons. General Linguistics 40: 149-171.
- 2004 Tetradic theory: an approach to kinship. Pp. 221-235 in Kinship and family: an anthropological reader , eds. R. Parkin and L. Stone. Oxford : Blackwell.
- 2005a Bhīṣma and Hesiod’s Succession Myth. Int. J. of Hindu Studies 8/1-3 (2004): 57-79.
- 2005b Romulus et Bhishma: structures entrecroisées. Anthropologie et sociétés 29/2: 21-44.
- 2007 The close and the distant: a long-term perspective. In G. Pfeffer (ed.) Periphery and Centre: Studies in Orissan History, Religion and Anthropology , pp . 273-290. Delhi , Manohar.
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