| Description | Papers relating to Roy Ellen, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and Human Ecology planning and delivering modules and courses in Sociology and Social Anthropology in 1972 to 1986. This includes assorted reading lists, teaching materials, seminar topics, lecture/seminar planning, essay questions and course guides for modules including Social Inequality, Economic Anthropology (S360), Ritual and Belief (S361), Sociological Problems of Economic Development (S363), MA - An Introduction to Medical Anthropology, The Sociology of Religion, and the Sociology of Medicine. |
| Admin history | Roy Frank Ellen was born in 1947, and is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and Human Ecology at the University of Kent. He trained at the London School of Economics as a social anthropologist, though has long been committed to an anthropology that addresses the 'big issues' about what it is to be human. Roy's fieldwork has, over a period of 50 years, focused mainly on the Nuaulu of Seram and other peoples of the Moluccan islands of eastern Indonesia. He has also worked in Sulawesi, Java, Brunei and in the UK.
Throughout his career, Professor Ellen has had a continuous professional interest in the anthropology of the environment and in ethnobiology (especially in relation to cultural cognition), and inaugurated the Kent teaching programmes in these subjects. Roy has also worked on the ecological and social dynamics of inter-island trading systems.
Professor Ellen's current interests are focused on the applications of cognitive anthropology to the history of science, the reproduction of Nuaulu ritual cycles, Nuaulu contemporary cultural resilience and understanding the management and significance of cultivar diversity amongst home gardeners and farmers in the British Isles and in the Moluccas.
(See: https://www.kent.ac.uk/anthropology-conservation/people/1014/ellen-roy)
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