A Tribute to Nick (N. J.) Allen, 1939–2020

Allen, N. J. 1975. Sketch of Thulung Grammar, with Three Texts and a Glossary. Cornell East Asia Papers, 6; Ithaca, NY: Cornell University China-Japan Program.

—1982. ‘A Dance of Relatives.’ Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 13 (2): 139–46.

—1986. ‘Tetradic Theory: An Approach to Kinship.’ Journal of the Anthropology Society of Oxford 17 (2): 87–109.

—1992. Review of Ortner (1989). American Anthropologist 94 (4): 967–68.

—1997. ‘Hinduization: The Experience of the Thulung Rai.’ In D. N. Gellner, J. Pfaff-Czarnecka and J. Whelpton (eds.), Nationalism and Ethnicity in a Hindu Kingdom: 303–23. Amsterdam: Harwood.

—2000a. Categories and Classifications: Maussian Reflections on the Social. New York: Berghahn.

—2000b. ‘The Field and the Desk: Choices and Linkages.’ In P. Dresch, W. James and D. Parkin (eds.), Anthropologists in a Wider World: Essays on Field Research: 243–57. New York: Berghahn.

—2003. ‘From Mountains to Mythologies.’ Ethnos 68 (2): 271–84. https://doi.org/10.1080/0014184032000097786

—2012. Miyapma: Traditional Narratives of the Thulung Rai. Kathmandu: Vajra.

—2020. Arjuna–Odysseus: Shared Heritage in Indian and Greek Epic. London and New York: Routledge.

Allen, N. J. Website: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~njallen/index.htm

Allen, N. J., H. Callan, R. Dunbar and W. James (eds.). 2011. Early Human Kinship: From Sex to Social Reproduction. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Barnard, A. 2014. ‘Social Origins: Sharing, Exchange, Kinship.’ In R. I. M. Dunbar, C. Gamble and J. A. J. Gowlett (eds.), Lucy to Language: The Benchmark Papers: 446–60. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

James, W. 2003. The Ceremonial Animal: A New Portrait of Anthropology. New York: Oxford University Press.

Macfarlane, A. 2012. ‘Interview of Nicholas Allen’ (filmed by M. Turin), https://www.sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1106403 (also on Youtube).

Onta, P. R. 2004. Nepal Studies in the UK: Conversations with Practitioners. Kathmandu: Martin Chautari.

Ortner, S. 1989. High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

—1993. Letter to American Anthropologist 95 (3): 726.

Pitt Rivers Museum audio collections: https://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/reel2real/index.php/collections-allen.html