LSE Anthropology tops Guardian league table
We are delighted to announce that the LSE's Department of Anthropology is top-ranked in the Guardian's University Guide 2013 Anthropology league table|.
Peter Loizos 1937-2012
The Department of Anthropology is very sad to announce the death of Emeritus Professor Peter Loizos, on Friday 2nd March.
Peter Loizos started working at LSE in 1969, and became professor of Anthropology in 1997. He was a specialist in, and made well-known contributions (among other things) to the anthropology of the Hellenic world with special reference to politics, ethnicity and nationalism in Cyprus; and to the study of gender relations in the Mediterranean. He was an expert on ethnographic film and on the study and teaching of ethnographic research methods. He also served as the editor of Man (now the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute). His publications include The Heart Grown Bitter: A Chronicle of Cypriot War Refugees (Cambridge 1981) and Iron in the soul: displacement, livelihood and health in Cyprus (Oxford, 2008). He was co-editor, with Patrick Heady, of Conceiving persons: ethnographies of procreation, fertility and growth (London, 1999).
In addition to these achievements, he is remembered with great fondness as an excellent teacher and an extraordinarily supportive colleague and friend.
Peter Loizos
Born 17th May 1937.
Died 2nd March 2012.
For DART project interviews with Peter Loizos by Clarinda Still about his key findings and experiences, see http://elearning.lse.ac.uk/dart/interviews/loizos.html|.
To see a film of Peter Loizos interviewed by Alan Macfarlane on 14th September 2002, see http://www.alanmacfarlane.com/DO/filmshow/loizos_fast.htm|.
More information about Peter's work can be found on his Departmental staff web page|, and on his LSE Experts page|. Obituaries have been published in The Guardian on 20th March 2012| and in The Telegraph on 9th May 2012|.
A memorial service for Peter was held at 5pm in the New Theatre, LSE on 18 May 2012.
Since Peter's death we have received many tributes, memories and messages of condolence and have created a web page for them here|.
Dr Matthew Engelke on Thinking Allowed
Matthew Engelke| appeared on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed| on 29 February 2012, talking about his study of the Bible Society of England and Wales. You can hear the programme on the BBC's web site.