Dr. James Laidlaw

James Laidlaw is William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of King's College. He is the author of The Archetypal Actions of Ritual (with Caroline Humphrey, 1994), Riches and Renunciation (1995), and The Subject of Virtue (2014), and the editor of The Essential Edmund Leach (with Stephen Hugh-Jones, 2000), Ritual and Memory (with Harvey Whitehouse, 2004), Religion, Anthropology, and Cognitive Science (with Harvey Whitehouse, 2007), and Recovering the...See more

James Laidlaw is William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of King's College. He is the author of The Archetypal Actions of Ritual (with Caroline Humphrey, 1994), Riches and Renunciation (1995), and The Subject of Virtue (2014), and the editor of The Essential Edmund Leach (with Stephen Hugh-Jones, 2000), Ritual and Memory (with Harvey Whitehouse, 2004), Religion, Anthropology, and Cognitive Science (with Harvey Whitehouse, 2007), and Recovering the Human Subject (with Barbara Bodenhorn and Martin Holbraad, 2018). See less