Keith Hart (anthropologist)
Keith Hart (born 1943 in Manchester, England) is a Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Goldsmith's College, University of London. He co-directs the Human Economy Group at the University of Pretoria and is Honorary Professor of Development Studies at the University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban. His main research has been on Africa and the African diaspora. He has taught at numerous universities, most significantly at Cambridge where he was director of the African Studies Centre. He has contributed to the concept of the informal economy to development studies and has published widely on economic anthropology. He is the author of Money in an Unequal World. One recurrent theme of his work has been the relationship between movement and identity in the transition from national to world society.
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