Professor Bruce Kapferer

Emeritus Professor Bruce Kapferer

BA (Sydney), PhD (Manchester)

Discipline: Anthropology

Year Elected: 1981

Professor Bruce Kapferer is Professor of Anthropology, University of Bergen, Norway. Professor Kapferer specialises in social and political processes among communities in South Asia, Southern Africa, and Australia. He is currently expanding his research into state mythologies and their relation to the production of ethnic and political violence.

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