Dr Andrew Beatty
Reader in Anthropology
Marie Jahoda 141
- Email: andrew.beatty@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 265943
- Anthropology
- Social Science and Communications
- Social and Political Sciences
- College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences
Summary
I became interested in anthropology after spending a couple of years travelling in Asia; conducted several years’ fieldwork in Indonesia in two contrasting settings: tribal Nias and Muslim Java; British Academy Postdoc 1990-3; worked at Brunel since 1998; in 2007 launched the first Masters in psychological anthropology outside the USA.
Qualifications:
- DPhil Anthropology (Oxford)
- MSc Anthropology (Oxford)
- English Literature (York)
Newest selected publications
Dukes, D., Abrams, K., Adolphs, R., Ahmed, ME., Beatty, A., Berridge, KC., et al. (2021) 'The rise of affectivism'. Nature Human Behaviour, 5 (7). pp. 816 - 820. ISSN: 2397-3374
Beatty, AW. (2019) 'What can anthropology contribute to the study of emotion?', in Scarantino, A. (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Emotion Theory. Routledge. ISBN 10: 1138676683.
Beatty, A. (2019) 'Anger and Anthropology'. Emotion Researcher. pp. 37 - 43.Open Access Link
Beatty, AW. (2019) 'Speak no evil: inversion and evasion in Indonesia', in Olsen, WC. and Csordas, T. (eds.) Engaging Evil: A Moral Anthropology. New York and Oxford : Berghahn Books. pp. 71 - 94. ISBN 10: 1789202132. ISBN 13: 978-1789202137. Open Access Link
Beatty, A. (2019) 'The case for narrative', inEmotional Worlds: Beyond an Anthropology of Emotion. Cambridge UK : Cambridge University Press. pp. 107 - 124. ISBN 10: 1107020999. ISBN 13: 9781107020993. Open Access Link