Janet Carsten FBA FRSE is an anthropologist and professor currently employed at the University of Edinburgh.

[1] Carsten is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the British Academy.

[4] Carsten is currently a Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh.

Introduction 2018 Reason and Passion: The Parallel Worlds of Ethnography and Biography (edited with Sophie Day and Charles Stafford).

Special Issue, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol.

1997 The Heat of the Hearth: The Process of Kinship in a Malay Fishing Community.