Section: Staff Profiles

A.F. Robertson

Name
Professor A.F. Robertson
Title
Honorary Professor
Organisation
Social Anthropology, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
Edinburgh UK
E-Mail
URL
http://www.san.ed.ac.uk/staff/robertson_a_f

Research Interests

  • Africa, Southeast Asia, Europe, USA;
  • political, economic and historical implications of family life;
  • greed;
  • growth;
  • closing the gap between biological and cultural approaches in anthropology.

Selected Publications

Greed: Gut Feelings, Growth and History, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2001

Life Like Dolls: The Collectible Doll Phenomenon and the Lives of the Women Who Love Them, New York, Routledge, 2003

This page was published on 7 March 2012


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