Laidlaw was born on 12 September 1963.[1] He attended the University of Cambridge as an undergraduate, and remained there for his graduate study, culminating in a Ph.D. in 1990.[1] While pursuing a doctoral degree, Laidlaw was appointed a junior research fellow at Cambridge in 1989. He was promoted to senior research fellow in 1993,[1] eventually advancing to fellow of King's College.[2] In 2016, he became William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology[3] and until October 2021, he was the head of the Cambridge Department of Social Anthropology.[1] His areas of ethnographic research include Asian religions, especially Jainism in India, about which he published a monograph in 1995,[4] and Buddhism in Taiwan.[5] He has also been among the early proponents of the influential turn to studying ethics in sociocultural anthropology,[6] through his 2001 Malinowski Memorial Lecutre,[7] and his 2013[8] "path-breaking book-length construction of the field",[9] which Webb Keane has described as "a major work that I expect will be a cornerstone of our teaching for a generation."[10] Finally, together with Caroline Humphrey, Laidlaw has developed an influential theory of ritual.[11]
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^ abc"Laidlaw, James 1963–". Contemporary Authors.
^"James Laidlaw". King's College, Cambridge. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
^"Professor James Laidlaw appointed as William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology". University of Cambridge Department of Social Anthropology. 16 June 2016. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
^Laidlaw, James (1995). Riches and Renunciation Religion, Economy, and Society Among the Jains. Oxford University Press.
^"Professor James Laidlaw". University of Cambridge Department of Social Anthropology. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
^Mattingly, Cheryl. "The Anthropology of Ethics and Morality". Annual Review of Anthropology. 47: 477–479.
^Laidlaw, James (2002). "For An Anthropology Of Ethics And Freedom". Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 8 (2): 311–332. doi:10.1111/1467-9655.00110.
^Laidlaw, James (2013). he Subject of Virtue: An Anthropology of Ethics and Freedom. Cambridge University Press. ISBN9781107697317.
^Robbins, Joel. "What is the matter with transcendence? On the place of religion in the new anthropology of ethics". Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 22 (4): 769. doi:10.1111/1467-9655.12494_1.
^Humphrey, Caroline; Laidlaw, James (1994). The Archetypal Actions of Ritual: A Theory of Ritual Illustrated by the Jain Rite of Worship. Oxford University Press.
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