Brian Morris (anthropologist)

Brian Morris
Born	(1936-10-18) 18 October 1936
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. He has carried out fieldwork among South Asian hunter-gatherers and in Malawi. Groups that he has studied include the Ojibwa. 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.

He worked as a tea planter in Malawi. He became an anarchist in the mid-1960s, and remained active in several protests and political movements. 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. He returned to Malawi to conduct extensive subsequent fieldwork.

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.

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
• 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

External links

• Official website