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Details for Dr David Shankland
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| Name | Dr David Shankland | ||
| Job title | Senior Research Fellow in Archaeology and Anthropology |
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| Department | Department of Anthropology and Archaeology University of Bristol |
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| Qualifications | M.A.(Edin.), Ph.D.(Cantab.) | ||
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| Membership of professional bodies | Royal Anthropological Institute, European Association of Social Anthropologists, Turkish Studies Association, Association of Social Anthropologists of Great Britain and the Commonwealth. |
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| Keywords | Turkey Islam secularism Alevis anthropology migration |
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| Areas of expertise | I specialise in modern Turkey, in particular social and political change in that country. I have made a particular study of a minority known as the Alevis, and also of relations between government, state and religion. I have also worked, with the University of Bamberg, on questions of Turkish migrant groups in Europe, particularly in Germany. An anthropologist by training, I have a professional interest too in the history and philosophy of the discipline. |
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| Media experience | Regular radio interviews, occasional television. |
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