Faculty / College Address:
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology / All Souls College
Email:
david.gellner@anthro.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests:
- Anthropology of South Asia
- Buddhism, Hinduism
- Traditional urbanism
- Healers and their relation to religion
- Ritual and symbolism
- Politics, ethnicity and activism
Current Projects:
- Activism and social change in Nepal
- Migration and the state in Nepal
- Dalits, class, caste
Recent Publications:
Books:
- 2024 (ed. with K.P. Adhikari). Nepal’s Dalits in Transition. Kathmandu: Vajra.
- 2023. Language, Caste, Religion, and Territory: Newar Identity Ancient and Modern. Kathmandu: Ratna Pustak Bhandar.
- 2018 (ed. with S.L. Hausner). Global Nepalis: Religion, Culture, and Community in a New and Old Diaspora. Delhi: OUP.
- 2013 (ed.). Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia. Durham: Duke University Press.
- 2008 (ed. with K. Hachhethu) Local Democracy in South Asia: The Micropolitics of Democratization in Nepal and its Neighbours. Delhi: Sage.
- 2007 (ed. with H. Ishii and K. Nawa) Political and Social Transformations in North India and Nepal. Delhi: Manohar.
- 2005 (with Sarah LeVine) Rebuilding Buddhism: The Theravada Movement in Twentieth-Century Nepal. Harvard University Press.
- 2003 (ed.) Resistance and the State: Nepalese Experiences. Delhi: Social Science Press. Oxford: Berghahn edition, 2006.
- 2001. The Anthropology of Buddhism and Hinduism: Weberian Themes. Delhi : OUP.
Articles:
- 2024. ‘The Persistence of Hierarchy: Paradoxes of Dominance in Nepal and Beyond’ (M.N. Srinivas Memorial Lecture) Sociological Bulletin 73(2): 127–47.
- 2023. ‘Caste, Ethnicity, and the State in Nepal’ in S.S. Jodhka & J. Naudet (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Caste, pp. 443–58. Delhi: OUP.
- 2023. ‘The Spaces of Religion: A View from South Asia’ (Henry Myers Lecture 2020) JRAI (N.S.) 29: 553–72.
- 2023 (with K.P. Adhikari). ‘Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Dalit Experiences of Primary and Secondary Education in West-Central Nepal’ in K. Valentin & U. Pradhan (eds) Educational Transformation and Avenues of Learning: Anthropological Perspectives on Education in Nepal, pp. 103–34. Delhi: OUP.
- 2022. ‘The Last Hindu King: How Nepal Desanctified its Monarchy’ in A.A. Moin & A. Strathern (eds) Sacred Kingship in World History: Between Immanence and Transcendence, pp. 271–98. NY: Columbia University Press.
- 2019. ‘Masters of Hybridity: How Activists Reshaped Nepali Society’ JRAI 25(2): 265–82.
- 2019 (with S. Chaturvedi & S.K. Pandey). ‘Politics in Gorakhpur since the 1920s: The Making of a Safe “Hindu” Constituency’ Contemporary South Asia 27(1): 40–57.
- 2017. ‘Sheldon Pollock and Max Weber: Why Pollock is more Weberian than he Thinks’ Max Weber Studies 17(2): 212–34
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