Curriculum Vitae 17 November 2006
Keith Hart
Short c.v.
Personal:
Present Post: 0.5 Professor of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London
Born: 1943 Manchester, England
Address: 135 rue du Faubourg Poissonnière, 75009 Paris, France
Email: johnkeithhart@gmail.com Website: www.thememorybank.co.uk
Telephone: 0033684797365 (cell) 0033140160184 (home)
Qualifications:
BA (Classics, Social Anthropology) first class, Cambridge University
PhD Social Anthropology, Cambridge University
Previous appointments:
Senior research fellow, Aberdeen University
University lecturer/professor: Cambridge, West Indies, Chicago, McGill, Michigan, Yale, Manchester and East Anglia
Short teaching contracts: Witwatersrand, Northwestern, Turin, Oslo, Stellenbosch and Pavia Universities
Director, African Studies Centre and Fellow, Girton College, Cambridge University
Consultant for World Bank, USAID, British Foreign Office and Ministry of Development
Author, Development Strategies Report for Papua New Guinea’s independence;
Economist Intelligence Unit reports on West Africa
Honours:
Honorary Research Professor, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban (current)
Cambridge Foundation Teaching Prize, Humanities and Social Sciences, U. Cambridge
Malinowski Lecturer, London School of Economics
Patchett Classics Scholar, St.John’s College, Cambridge
Innovations in teaching:
Chair, Committee for IT and AVA in the humanities and social sciences, Cambridge
Chair, Committee for reorganization of Archaeology and Anthropology Part I, Cambridge
Head, new graduate programme for the social sciences in the Commonwealth Caribbean
Co-founder, Council for the Comparative Study of Culture and Society, Yale
Chair, Women’s Studies program, Yale
Other professional activities:
Field research: Ghana, Liberia, Jamaica, South Africa
Editorial Board: Critique of Anthropology, Anthropological Theory, Journal des Anthropologues, Progress in Development Studies
Keynote speaker at conference: Uppsala, London, Bangkok, Durban, Helsinki, Washington, Accra
Invited speaker: Britain, USA, South Africa, India, Brazil, France, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Croatia.
Co-founder, Prickly Pear Press and the amateur anthropological association (small triple a); owner of website, self-publishing collective with 160 members, 4,000 hits a day.
Contributor to Anthropology Today, The Times Higher, magazines and mailing lists
Principal Publications:
Books:
The Political Economy of West African Agriculture (1982)
(Editor) Women and the Sexual Division of Labour in the Caribbean (1989)
(Editor with J. Lewis) Why Angola Matters (1995)
The Memory Bank: money in an unequal world (2000)
(Editor with J. Bryden) A New Approach to Rural Development in Europe (2004)
The Hit Man’s Dilemma: or business, personal and impersonal (2005)
(Editor with C. Hann) Market and Society: The Great Transformation today (in preparation)
The African Revolution: Africa in the 21st century world (in preparation)
(with C. Hann) Economic Anthropology: a short history (in preparation)
Articles include:
Informal income opportunities and urban employment in Ghana (1973)
On commoditization (1982)
Heads or tails? Two sides of the coin (1986)
Kinship, contract and trust: the economic organisation of migrants in an African city slum (1988)
(With A. Grimshaw) Anthropology and the crisis of the intellectuals (1993)
(With V. Padayachee) Indian business in South Africa after apartheid: new and old trajectories (2000)
Quelques confidences sur l’anthropologie du développement (2002)
Manchester on my mind: a memoir (2003)
Notes towards an anthropology of the internet (2004)
The political economy of food in an unequal world (2004)
Agrarian civilization and world society (2006)
Bureaucratic form and the informal economy (2006)
Richesse commune : construire une démocratie économique à l’aide de monnaies communautaires (2006)
Marcel Mauss : in pursuit of the whole (2007)
Money is always personal and impersonal (2007)
The persuasive power of money (2008)
Intellectual property (2008)
Paris
July 2007
