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Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern, William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology, was elected to the honorary office of President of the ASA at its recent annual general meeting.

̽»¨Ö±²¥ASA is the principal professional association of social anthropologists in the United Kingdom. Professor Strathern will become only its fourth president, following in the footsteps of Alfred R Radcliffe Brown, Sir Edward E Evans-Pritchard and Sir Raymond Firth.

Widely regarded as one of the leading social anthropologists in the world, Professor Strathern has made significant contributions to gender studies and feminist anthropology, and to the study of areas such as kinship, new reproductive technologies, intellectual property rights and the ethnography of different cultures.

She studied anthropology at Cambridge and carried out much of her fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, where her research with the indigenous population resulted in the first of many books. As well as William Wyse Professor, she is also Mistress of Girton College and an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College. She holds two memorial medals from the from the Royal Anthropological Institute, the Rivers (1976) and the Huxley (2004), in recognition of her work, is an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a former chair of the European Association of Social Anthropologists.

̽»¨Ö±²¥ASA was founded to promote the study and teaching of social anthropology. Its aim is to assist in research, to collate and publish information on social anthropology and to function as a register of social anthropologists.

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