Brian Morris (born 18 October 1936) is

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anthropology Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of behavi ...

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at the

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. He is a specialist on

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ethnobotany Ethnobotany is the study of a region's plants and their practical uses through the traditional knowledge of a local culture and people. An ethnobotanist thus strives to document the local customs involving the practical uses of local flora for m ...

and

ethnozoology Ethnozoology is the study of the past and present interrelationships between human cultures and the animals in their environment. It includes classification and naming of zoological forms, cultural knowledge and use of wild and domestic animals. ...

, and on religion and symbolism. He has carried out fieldwork among South Asian hunter-gatherers and in

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. Groups that he has studied include the

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Books

* ''Forest Traders: a Socio-economic Study of the Hill Pandaram'' (1982), Humanities Press * ''Anthropological Studies of Religion'' (1987), Cambridge University Press, * ''Bakunin: The Philosophy of Freedom'' (1993), Black Rose Books, * ''Anthropology Of The Self: The Individual In Cultural Perspective'' (1994) * ''The Power Of Animals'' (1998), Berg * ''Western Conceptions of the Individual'' 1991, Berg, * ''Animals and Ancestors: An Ethnography'' (2000), Berg * ''Insects and Human Life'' (2004), Berg, * ''Kropotkin: The Politics of Community'' (2004), * ''The History and Conservation of Mammals in Malawi'' (2004), Kachere Series (Zomba), * ''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), * ''The Anarchist Geographer: An Introduction to the Life of Peter Kropotkin'' (2012), Genge Press (Minehead) * ''Pioneers of Ecological Humanism'' (2012), Book Guild Publishing (Brighton), * ''Anthropology, Ecology, and Anarchism: A Brian Morris Reader'' (2014),

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, * ''Pioneers of Ecological Humanism: Mumford, Dubos, and Bookchin'' (2017),

Black Rose Books Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos (born 1936) is a Canadian political activist and publisher. Early life Roussopoulos studied philosophy, politics, and economics at several Montreal and London universities. He has remained institutionally independent ...

, * ''Visions of Freedom: Critical Writings on Ecology and Anarchism'' (2018),

, * ''Kropotkin: The Politics of Community'' (2018),

, * ''Anthropology and Dialectical Naturalism: A Philosophical Manifesto'' (2020),

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* 1936 births Living people British anarchists British anthropologists Anthropologists of religion Academics of Goldsmiths, University of London {{reli-anthropologist-stub