Asie du Sud

Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord

Professor of Social Anthropology in Practice

University of Edinburgh

AGood@ed.ac.uk ; agood@bluenote.demon.co.uk

Social Anthropology
School of Social and Political Studies
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh EH8 9LL, UK

Phones: +44-31-650-3941 (office)
+44-31-447-5974 (residence)
FAX: +44-31-650-3945

India, Sri Lanka

Sociocultural anthropology of South India and Sri Lanka.
Legal anthropology.
Expert witness on South Asian asylum issues.
Social development consultancy.
Urban and rural Hinduism in South India.
Sustainable community development in South Asia.
Domestic life-cycle rituals of birth, puberty, marriage, death.
Kinship, caste, religion, development, political asylum.
Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu, India.

Research Practices in the Study of Kinship
(with Alan Barnard) (Academic Press, 1984).

The Female Bridegroom (Clarendon Press, 1991).

The Ceremonial Economy of a Royal South Indian Temple
(Edwin Mellen Press, 2004)

Tamilnadu ; Tamil Nadu ; Legal anthropology ; asylum ; Hinduism.