Academy of Social Sciences in Australia

Academy Fellows

Year elected: 1981
Panel: A
Discipline: Anthropology

Professor Michael Allen

Editor of the Australian Journal of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology
Faculty of Arts
University of Sydney

Allen, Michael Richard. BA (Dublin), PhD (ANU)

Professor Michael Allen, retired Professor of Anthropology, University of Sydney, is currently editor of The Australian Journal of Anthropology. His primary interests are in the anthropology of religion, gender relations and the ethnography of Vanuatu, Nepal and Ireland.

Key publications

  • Michael Allen (2000), From Ecstasy to Power: Marian Apparitions in Contemporary Irish Catholicism, in Anthropological Journal on European Cultures
  • Michael Allen (2000), Ritual, Power and Gender: Ethnographic Explorations in Vanuatu, Nepal and Ireland. New Delhi: Manohar
  • Michael Allen (1998), Male Cults Revisited: The Politics of Blood Versus Semen, Oceania
  • Michael Allen (1995), The Cult of Kumari: Virgin Worship in Nepal. Kathmandu: Mandala Book Point
  • Michael Allen (1994), The Anthropology of Nepal: Peoples, Problems and Process. Kathmandu: Mandala Book Point
  • Michael Allen (1990), Women in India and Nepal. New Delhi: Sterling and Asian Studies Association of Australia.


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