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Nur Yalman is Professor of Social Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies in the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University; Senior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows; and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Yalman received his B.A. from Robert College in Istanbul; B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Cantab.); with an additional M.A. from Harvard. He has been Bye-Fellow of Peterhouse at Cambridge University; Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Chicago and Professor of Social Anthropology and of Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University since 1972. He has done fieldwork in Sri Lanka, India, Iran and Turkey. He is familiar with the Balkans, Central Asia, and Japan. Professor Yalman speaks French, German, Turkish, some Persian, Sinhalese, Italian and Arabic. Professor Yalman teaches two CORE courses at Harvard: (Foreign Cultures 17) "Thought and Change in the Contemporary Middle East" and (Social Analysis 36) "Religion and Modernization: Cultural Revolutions and Secularism." He also teaches (Anthropology 153) "Structuralism and Anthropology," (Anthropology 279) "Seminar on Kinship" and the seminar for Social Theory ì Maincurrents in Anthropological Thoughtî for Anthropology Graduate Students. His publications include Under the Bo Tree, "On the Purity of Women in the Castes of Ceylon and Malabar," "Land Disputes in Eastern Turkey," and recent papers on Religion, Politics, Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Secularism. Professor Yalman's special interests include contemporary social theory and theorists, the anthropology of religion with special reference to Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism; social and political conditions in South and Central Asia, and the Middle East; political and intellectual developments in other parts of Asia including Japan.
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