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Gavin Smith, looking at the camera wearing a light blue shirt and dark blue tie

Gavin Smith

Emeriti Faculty
Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology
AP 204
Campus: St. George

Education

  • PhD, University of Sussex
  • MA, University of Sussex
  • BA, McGill University

Research Interests

  • Social anthropology
  • livelihood and political expression
  • global/local interfaces
  • political economy and historical realist theory
  • West Europe
  • Latin America

Publications

  • 1989: Livelihood and resistance: Peasants and the politics of land in Peru. University of California Press. Berkeley.
  • 1999: Confronting the Present: Towards a Politically Engaged Anthropology. Berg, Oxford
  • 2006 with Susana Narotzky: Immediate struggles: power people and place in rural Spain, University of California Press Translated into Spanish. Ed. Alfons el Mañanim.
  • 2013 Intellectuals and (Counter-) Politics: essays in historical realism. Berghahn. Oxford.