Marcus Banks (anthropologist)
Marcus Banks
Summary
Marcus John Banks, born 4 July 1960 in Liverpool; died 22 October 2020 in Oxford was a visual anthropologist who originally worked with Jains in Leicester, Uk and Jamnagar, Gujerat, India. He was a prominent figure in the development of vosiual anthropology.
Early life
Born in Liverpool he was raised in a working-class household. He attended New Heys Comprehensive School, from where went up to Christ’s College, Cambridge, in 1978, to read Social Anthropology. He was awarded a First class degree. He stayed in Cambridge studying for a PhD with Caroline Humphrey and Deborah Swallow which was awarded in 1985.
Career
He became a ‘Demonstrator’ at Oxford’s Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (ISCA) in 1987 later becoming Departmental lecturer before promotion to Professor in 2001. He served as Director of the larger School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography from 2012 to 2016).
Notable Achievements
He had a one year Royal Anthropological Institute fellowship at the National Film and TV School (in 1986-1987) University of Oxford Proctor (2007-2008) Wolfson College Vicegerent (2014-2016).
Awards/ Honours/ Public Recognition
Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Vienna (2010), Paris V Descartes (2011), and Canterbury, New Zealand (2012); and sat on the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee (2001-2005), and the European Association of Social Anthropologists’ Executive Committee (2017-2019).
Publications
Ethnicity: Anthropological Constructions (1996) Rethinking Visual Anthropology (co-edited with Howard Morphy, 1997), Made to be Seen (co-edited with Jay Ruby, 2011), Visual Methods in Social Research (2001)
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