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Lecturer and professor of African anthropology, SOAS 1964-1996; professor of social anthropology, University of Oxford 1996-2008, emeritus thereafter. Fieldwork in eastern Africa 1966-2002 for a number of years in total, among Luo, Giriama and Swahili-speakers, on Islam, entrepreneurship, political ethnicity, language, material culture, and medical anthropology.

Popular culture during the Edo Period (1615-1868)

Research interest: "Memoirs of a Japanese Ambassador" and "Birth of the Constitution after World War II: Maintaining the Emperor System".

Professor Mehdi Zakerian is based in the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Sciences & Research Branch, Tehran, Iran.

Professor Nakanishi is currently a Professor of the Graduate School of Global Studies at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan.

Dr Peter Sharrock is a co-convenor of the Arts of Southeast Asia and Arts of the Buddhist World modules of the SOAS-Alphawood Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art, as well as Director of Regional Partners, Summer Schools and Alumni Liaison for the SOAS-Alphawood Group.

Professorial Research Associate

Joanne Davis is a Research Associate at SOAS.

Mehreen Chida-Razvi is a Research Associate at SOAS.