Professor Pat Caplan BA, MA, PhD
Position held:
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology
Phone:
+44 (0)20 7919 7800
Email:
p.caplan (@gold.ac.uk)
Pat is an anthropologist who has worked in the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths since 1976. Her main areas of research have been in Tanzania, India, Nepal, and Britain. Her urban fieldwork has mainly been carried out in Chennai (formerly Madras City), South India since 1974, where she has researched women's organisations, social welfare, class and changes in food consumption pattens, publishing a book, Class and Gender in India, in 1985, as well as numerous articles. She directed an ESRC-funded research project on food and health in Lewisham from 1992-6.
For more details of her other research, please see Pat's profile under the Department of Anthropology.