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Bernard S. Cohn (May 13, 1928 – November 23, 2003) was an American anthropologist and scholar of British colonialism in India, primarily affiliated with the University of Chicago. Life and career
Bernard Cohn, Professor Emeritus in Anthropology and a pioneering scholar of the British colonial period of India, died Tuesday, Nov. 25, in his Hyde Park home. He was 75.
Jun 27, 2022 · Bernard Cohn was an American anthropologist who studied how the British used various modalities to objectify, classify and document India. He identified six modalities: historiographic, observational, survey, enumerative, museological and archaeological.
Bernard S. Cohn is Professor Emeritus of History and Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of An Anthropologist among the Historians and Other Essays and India: The Social Anthropology of a Civilization.
At least a decade before the publication of Orientalism, Bernard S. Cohn, then professor of history and anthropology at the University of Chicago, had already anticipated the arguments of Foucault and Said in his work on representations of Indian society. [4]
Bernard Cohn's interest in the construction of Empire as anintellectual and cultural phenomenon has set the agenda for theacademic study of modern Indian c...
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May 11, 2021 · Bernard S. Cohn is Professor Emeritus of History and Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of An Anthropologist among the Historians and Other Essays and India: The Social Anthropology of a Civilization.
