Magnus Course

Magnus COURSE is a lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University ofEdinburgh. His research is concerned with the relations between kinship,personhood, ritual, and language in the context of Native South American societies.He completed his Ph.D. on kinship and personhood among the Mapuche ofsouthern Chile at the London School of Economics in 2005, and the ensuingmonograph was published by University of Illinois Press in 2011 asBecomingMapuche: Person and ritual in indigenous Chile. In addition to finishing articles onclowns, cider, language, and sacrifice he is working on two edited collections, one(with Suzanne Oakdale) on indigenous autobiographies in lowland South America,the other (with Maya Mayblin) on new anthropological approaches to sacrifice.