Veena Das
Indian anthropologist · India · On the map · Academics · Born 1945 · age 81
Veena Das, FBA is the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University. Her areas of theoretical specialisation include the anthropology of violence, social suffering, and the state.
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Das has received multiple international awards including the Ander Retzius Gold Medal, delivered the prestigious Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture and was named a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In the Fall of 1999, she was a Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala, Sweden.
