Brian Morris (born 18 October 1936) isemeritus professor ofanthropology atGoldsmiths College at theUniversity of London. He is a specialist onfolk taxonomy,ethnobotany andethnozoology, and on religion and symbolism.^[1] He has carried out fieldwork among South Asian hunter-gatherers and inMalawi. Groups that he has studied include theOjibwa.^[2] He has also written widely on thehistory of ideas and in particular onanarchism.

Brian Morris was born in theBlack Country. He left school at fifteen.^[3]

He worked as atea planter inMalawi.^[4] He became an anarchist in the mid-1960s, and remained active in several protests and political movements.^[5] He later received adoctorate insocial anthropology at theLondon School of Economics, doing his PhDethnographic fieldwork withMalaipantaramhunter-gatherers in SouthernIndia.^[4]

He has written books and articles onecology,botany,ethnobotany andethnobiology,political philosophy, religion, anthropology, andsocial anarchism. His 2004Kropotkin: The Politics of Community, published byPM Press, locates anarchist thinkerPeter Kropotkin within intellectual history as a theorist of social science, power, and ecology.^[6]

• Forest Traders: a Socio-economic Study of the Hill Pandaram (1982), Humanities Press
• Anthropological Studies of Religion (1987), Cambridge University Press,ISBN 0-521-33991-X
• Bakunin: The Philosophy of Freedom (1993), Black Rose Books,ISBN 1-895431-66-2
• Anthropology Of The Self: The Individual In Cultural Perspective (1994)
• The Power Of Animals (1998), Berg
• Western Conceptions of the Individual (1991) Berg,ISBN 0-85496-698-6
• Animals and Ancestors: An Ethnography (2000), Berg
• Insects and Human Life (2004), Berg,ISBN 1-85973-847-8
• Kropotkin: The Politics of Community (2004),ISBN 978-1-59102-158-2
• The History and Conservation of Mammals in Malawi (2004), Kachere Series (Zomba),ISBN 99908-76-69-X
• Common Mushrooms of Malawi (1987) Fungiflora A/S,ISBN 82-90724-00-4
• Religion And Anthropology: A Critical Introduction (2006), Cambridge University Press
• Ernest Thompson Seton, Founder of the Woodcraft Movement 1860-1946: Apostle of Indian Wisdom and Pioneer Ecologist (2007), Edwin Mellen Press (Lewiston),ISBN 0773454748
• The Anarchist Geographer: An Introduction to the Life of Peter Kropotkin (2012), Genge Press (Minehead)
• Pioneers of Ecological Humanism (2012), Book Guild Publishing (Brighton),ISBN 978-1-84624-866-5
• Anthropology, Ecology, and Anarchism: A Brian Morris Reader (2014),PM Press,ISBN 978-1-60486-093-1
• Pioneers of Ecological Humanism: Mumford, Dubos, and Bookchin (2017),Black Rose Books,ISBN 978-1-55164-607-7
• Visions of Freedom: Critical Writings on Ecology and Anarchism (2018),Black Rose Books,ISBN 978-1-55164-644-2
• Kropotkin: The Politics of Community (2018),PM Press,ISBN 978-1-62963-505-7
• Anthropology and Dialectical Naturalism: A Philosophical Manifesto (2020),Black Rose Books,ISBN 978-1-55164-742-5

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