In the Event: Toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments

Bruce Kapferer is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Bergen and Honorary Professor at University College London. He has held academic positions in Zambia, Manchester, Adelaide, London, and Queensland, and carried out extensive fieldwork in Zambia, Sri Lanka, India, Australia, and South Africa. His major publications include The Feast of the Sorcerer (University of Chicago Press) and Legends of People, Myths of State (Berghahn Books).