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Professor Caroline Humphrey FBA

Research

Siberia and Mongolia in the Soviet and Post-Soviet periods; India, Nepal and China (Inner Mongolia and Manchuria).

Publications

Key publications: 

Alexander, C., Buchli, V. and Humphrey, C. (ed.) (2007) Urban Life in Post-Soviet Central Asia. London, UCL Press. This book contains a chapter by Caroline Humphrey, New Subjects and Situated Interdependence: After Privatisation in the City of Ulan-Ude, 175-207

Mandel, R. and Humphrey C. (ed.) (2002). Markets and Moralities: ethnographies of postsocialism. Oxford: Berg.

Humphrey, C. (2002). The Unmaking of Soviet Life: everyday economies after socialism. Cornell, Cornell University Press. (Heldt Prize)

Publications (from Symplectic)

Journal articles

2024

  • Humphrey, C., 2024. Displacement and the Natal Paradise: The Metamorphosis of Placenta Burial Rites in Buryat and Mongol Lands Homme (France), v. 249
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.4000/lhomme.48190
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    2012

  • Humphrey, C. and Ujeed, H., 2012. Fortune in the wind an impersonal subjectivity Social Analysis, v. 56
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2012.560211
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  • Humphrey, C., 2012. Hospitality and tone: Holding patterns for strangeness in rural Mongolia Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, v. 18
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01761.x
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  • da Col, G. and Humphrey, C., 2012. Subjects of luck-contingency, morality, and the anticipation of everyday life Social Analysis, v. 56
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2012.560202
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    2009

  • Humphrey, C., 2009. The Mask and the Face: Imagination and Social Life in Russian Chat Rooms and Beyond ETHNOS, v. 74
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/00141840902751154
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    2008

  • Humphrey, C., 2008. The 'creative bureaucrat': Conflicts in the production of Soviet Communist Party discourse Inner Asia, v. 10
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1163/000000008793066803
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  • Humphrey, C., 2008. Reassembling individual subjects Events and decisions in troubled times ANTHROPOL THEOR, v. 8
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1177/1463499608096644
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    2007

  • Humphrey, C., 2007. Inside and outside the mirror: Mongolian Shaman's mirrors as instruments of perspectivism Inner Asia, v. 9
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1163/146481707793646557
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  • Boldbaatar, J. and Humphrey, C., 2007. The process of creation of national symbols and their adoption in the 1992 Constitution of Mongolia Inner Asia, v. 9
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1163/146481707793646584
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  • Humphrey, C., 2007. Modern Mongolia: From Khans to commissars to capitalists CHINA J, v. 57
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  • Humphrey, C., 2007. Solovyovo: The story of memory in a Russian village. SLAVIC REV, v. 66
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    2006

  • Humphrey, C., 2006. Editorial introduction Inner Asia, v. 8
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1163/146481706793646756
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    2005

  • Humphrey, C., 2005. Editorial introduction Inner Asia, v. 7
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1163/146481705793646973
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  • Humphrey, C. and Hurelbaatar, A., 2005. Regret as a political intervention: An essay in the historical anthropology of the early Mongols PAST PRESENT,
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gti007
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  • Humphrey, C., 2005. Ideology in infrastructure: Architecture and soviet imagination J ROY ANTHROPOL INST, v. 11
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    2003

  • Evans, C. and Humphrey, C., 2003. History, timelessness and the monumental: The Oboos of the Mergen environs, Inner Mongolia CAMB ARCHAEOL J, v. 13
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    2002

  • Evans, C. and Humphrey, C., 2002. After-lives of the mongolian yurt - The 'archaeology' of a Chinese tourist camp J MAT CULT, v. 7
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  • Humphrey, C., 2002. Rituals of death as a context for understanding personal property in socialist Mongolia J ROY ANTHROPOL INST, v. 8
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  • Humphrey, C., 2002. Stalin and the blue elephant: Paranoia and complicity in postcommunist metahistories DIOGENES,
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    2001

  • Humphrey, C., 2001. Mongolia in the twentieth century: Landlocked cosmopolitan SLAVIC REV, v. 60
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  • Humphrey, C., 2001. Inequality and exclusion: A Russian case study of emotion in politics Anthropological Theory, v. 1
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1177/14634990122228764
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    1997

  • Humphrey, C., 1997. After the USSR: Ethnicity, nationalism, and politics in the Commonwealth of Independent States - Khazanov,AM AM ANTHROPOL, v. 99
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  • Humphrey, C., 1997. Who gets the past? Competition for ancestors among non-Russian intellectuals in Russia - Shnirelman,VA AM ANTHROPOL, v. 99
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  • Humphrey, C., 1997. In the Soviet house of culture: A century of Perestroikas - Grant,B AM ANTHROPOL, v. 99
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    1990

  • HUMPHREY, C., 1990. NOMADS OF EURASIA - BASILOV,VN AM ETHNOL, v. 17
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    1989

  • HUMPHREY, C., 1989. THE EVOLUTION OF MODELS OF THE FAMILY IN EASTERN-EUROPE AND THE USSR - FRENCH - KERBLAY,B SLAVON E EUR REV, v. 67
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    1987

  • HUMPHREY, C., 1987. TRANSYLVANIAN VILLAGERS - 3 CENTURIES OF POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND ETHNIC CHANGE - VERDERY,K AM ETHNOL, v. 14
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    1985

  • HUMPHREY, C., 1985. BARTER AND ECONOMIC DISINTEGRATION MAN, v. 20
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  • HUMPHREY, C., 1985. SHAMANS, LAMAS AND EVANGELICALS - THE ENGLISH MISSIONARIES IN SIBERIA - BAWDEN,CR MAN, v. 20
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    1984

  • HUMPHREY, C., 1984. REMINISCENCES - POPPE,N PAC AFF, v. 57
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  • HUMPHREY, C., 1984. THE DILUV KHUTAGT - MEMOIRS AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A MONGOL BUDDHIST REINCARNATION IN RELIGION AND REVOLUTION - LATTIMORE,O, ISONO,F MOD ASIAN STUD, v. 18
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  • HUMPHREY, C., 1984. ETHNOGRAPHIC ASPECTS OF THE STUDY OF CONTEMPORARY PHENOMENA - ABRAMZON,SM MAN, v. 19
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  • HUMPHREY, C., 1984. SOVIET LOCAL-POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT - JACOBS,EM GOV OPPOS, v. 19
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    1983

  • HUMPHREY, C., 1983. MANCHU CHINESE COLONIAL RULE IN NORTHERN MONGOLIA - SANJDORJ,M MOD ASIAN STUD, v. 17
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    1982

  • HUMPHREY, C., 1982. THE RELIGIONS OF MONGOLIA - HEISSIG,H RELIGION, v. 12
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    1978

  • HUMPHREY, C., 1978. SPIRIT POSSESSION IN NEPAL HIMALAYAS - HITCHCOCK,JT, JONES,RL TLS-TIMES LIT SUPPL,
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  • HUMPHREY, C., 1978. PASTORAL NOMADISM IN MONGOLIA - ROLE OF HERDSMENS COOPERATIVES IN NATIONAL-ECONOMY DEV CHANGE, v. 9
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    1974

  • HUMPHREY, C., 1974. INSIDE A MONGOLIAN TENT NEW STATESMAN SOC, v. 30
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    Books

    2013

  • Humphrey, C. and Ujeed, H., 2013. A Monastery in Time
    • Book chapters

    2012

  • Humphrey, C., 2012. Inequality
  • Humphrey, C., 2012. Odessa: Pogroms in a Cosmopolitan City
    • Director of Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit, Dept. of Social Anthropology (MIASU)
    Departments and institutes: 
    Department of Archaeology
    Professor Caroline Humphrey

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    ch10001@cam.ac.uk
    Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit

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