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Roy Dilley trained as a Social Anthropologist at Oxford and conducted research for his doctorate in Senegal, West Africa. Appointed to a Lectureship at the University of St Andrews in 1988, he became Professor of Social Anthropology in 2006. He has twice served as Head of Department of Social Anthropology at St Andrews and was Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Divinity from 2009 to 2011. His early research interests were concerned with forms of socio-economic organization among members of occupationally specialized groups within specific cultural contexts. His research in West Africa focuses on the anthropology of religion and Islam in Africa, knowledge practices and apprenticeship among Islamic clerics, craftsmen, artisans, and musicians. His latest research project is entitled Colonial Lives, Imperial Contexts, one aspect of which has been the publication of a biography of a French colonial administrator-scholar, Henri Gaden (1867-1939): Nearly Native, Barely Civilized: Henri Gaden's Journey across Colonial French West Africa (1894-1939).

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