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ResearcherID: AAO-8894-2020

Keywords

Pakistan, Culture, Conflict Management, Anthropology

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United Kingdom

Biography

Stephen Lyon obtained a BSc in Social Anthropology from Goldsmiths' College, London in 1993 and his PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Kent in 2002. His primary research interests focus on local politics, patron-client networks and cultural models in Punjab, Pakistan. He has also conducted research on ethnicity and identity both in Pakistan and among Pakistani diaspora. In addition he has worked closely with the Pakistan Agricultural Research Council on agricultural development. In addition to his ongoing interests in Pakistan and Islamist politics in the Muslim world, he has conducted research on Jodoshinshu Buddhist Temple networks in western Japan. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Social Science Computer Review (a SAGE journal). He is the author of Political Kinship in Pakistan: Descent, Marriage and Government Stability. (2019 Lexington). He was the editor of History and Anthropology (Routledge) from 2009-2014. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Social Science Computer Review.

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Aga Khan University: Karachi, Sindh, PK

2022-09-13 to present | Inaugural Dean (Faculty of Arts and Sciences)
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Aga Khan University (International): London, GB

2018-09-01 to 2022-09-12 | Professor of Anthropology and Head of Educational Programmes & Development (Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations)
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Durham University: Durham, Durham, GB

2018-05-01 to 2018-08-31 | Professor of Anthropology (Anthropology)
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Durham University: Durham, Durham, GB

2007 to 2018 | Senior Lecturer in Anthropology (Anthropology)
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Durham University: Durham, Durham, GB

2002 to 2007 | Lecturer in Anthropology (Anthropology)
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Education and qualifications (2)

University of Kent: Canterbury, Kent, GB

1997-10 to 2002-07 | PhD (Anthropology)
Education
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Goldsmiths University of London: London, London, GB

1990-10 to 1993-06 | BSc (Anthropology)
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Professional activities (1)

Society for Anthropological Sciences: VA, VA, US

2019-11-22 to 2021-11-22 | President
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Works (41)

Giving Up the Field

2024-02-16 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.14361/9783839466773-010
Contributors: Stephen Lyon
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A Complex Educational Landscape: The Impossible Choices of Private, Public and Language Options in Pakistan

Education in Troubled Times: A Global Pluralist Response
2022 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 978-1-5275-8602-4
Contributors: Lyon, Stephen M.; Ahsan, Mirat Al Fatima; Baiza, Yahia
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Pakistan Left Review: Then and Now

2022 | Book
ISBN: 978-969-734-153-5
Contributors: Cheema, Nadir; Lyon, Stephen M.
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Stephen Lyon

Potohari Punjabi of Pakistan

Native Nations: The Survival of Indigenous Peoples
2020 | Book chapter
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http://nativenations.anthroniche.com/instructional-resources/potohari-punjabi-of-pakistan/
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Kinship, Factions and Survival in Pakistani Politics

Soziale Systeme
2020-08-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1515/sosys-2020-0006
Part of ISSN: 2366-0473
Part of ISSN: 0948-423X
Contributors: Stephen M. Lyon; Sohaila Ashraf Hassan
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Challenging the Landed Elite in Contemporary Pakistani Politics

Journal of Legal Anthropology
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3167/jla.2019.030103
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Cultural Models of Nature and divinity in a rain-fed farming village of Punjab, Pakistan

Cultural Models of Nature: Primary Food Producers and Climate Change
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.4324/9781351127905-7
WOSUID: WOS:000481926300007
Contributors: Lyon, Stephen M.; Mughal, Muhammad A. Z.
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Political Kinship in Pakistan: Descent, Marriage and Government Stability

2019 | Book
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https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498582186/Political-Kinship-in-Pakistan-Descent-Marriage-and-Government-Stability
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Conflict and Security

The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology
2019-09 | Other
DOI: doi:10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea2011
Part of ISBN: 9781118924396
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Cultural Models of Nature and Divinity in a Rain Fed Farming Village of Punjab, Pakistan

Primary Food Producers, Climate Change, and Cultural Models of Nature
2019-04 | Book chapter
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Categories and Cultural Models of Nature in Northern Punjab, Pakistan

World Cultures
2017 | Journal article
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Online Environments and the Future of Social Science Research

The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods
2017 | Book chapter
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Fostering active network management through SMEs’practises

Energy Efficiency
2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s12053-015-9382-y
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Patronage as politics in South Asia

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9655.12350
WOSUID: WOS:000368790500021
Contributors: Lyon, Stephen M.
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Ties That Bind: Marital Networks and Politics in Punjab, Pakistan

Structure and Dynamics: eJournal of Anthropological and Related Sciences
2016-09 | Journal article
URI: imbs_socdyn_sdeas_32330
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Beyond SWAT: history, society and economy along the Afghanistan-Pakistan frontier

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9655.12239
WOSUID: WOS:000355276900035
Contributors: Lyon, Stephen M.
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Persistent Cultures: Miskitu Kinship Terminological Fluidity

Structure and Dynamics: eJournal of Anthropological and Related Sciences
2015-07 | Journal article
ISSN: 1554-3374
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Review of Impossible Citizens: Dubai's Indian Diaspora

History and Anthropology
2015-02 | Book review
DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2015.1015105
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Changing of the Guard

History and Anthropology
2014 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1080/02757206.2014.967084
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The choice of interdisciplinarities

Learning and Teaching
2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3167/LATISS.2014.070206
WOSUID: WOS:000214966600006
Contributors: Lyon, Stephen M.
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Harmonizing Diversity: Tuning Anthropological Research to Complexity

Social Science Computer Review
2013 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1177/0894439312455311

Part of ISSN:

0894-4393
Contributors: Fischer, Michael D.; Lyon, Stephen M.; Sosna, Daniel; Henig, David
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Networks and Kinship: Formal Models of Alliance, Descent, and Inheritance in a Pakistani Punjabi Village

Social Science Computer Review
2013 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1177/0894439312453275

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0894-4393
Contributors: Lyon, Stephen M.
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Paper as a serious method of concern

HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
2013 | Journal article
DOI: 10.14318/HAU3.3.026
WOSUID: WOS:000214625000026
Contributors: Lyon, Stephen M.; Henig, David
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CONCLUSION Being Pakistani beyond Europe and South Asia

Pakistan and its Diaspora: Multidisciplinary Approaches
2011 | Journal article
WOSUID: WOS:000294251500010
Contributors: Bolognani, Marta; Lyon, Stephen M.
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Dunbar's Number: Group Size and Brain Physiology in Humans Reexamined

American Anthropologist
2011 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1111/j.1548-1433.2011.01369.x

Part of ISSN:

0002-7294
Contributors: de Ruiter, Jan; Weston, Gavin; Lyon, Stephen M.
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Language, Space, and Social Relationships: A Foundational Cultural Model in Polynesia

History and Anthropology
2011 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2011.546955
WOSUID: WOS:000210670400008
Contributors: Lyon, Stephen
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The Mirror Crack'd: Shifting Gazes and the Curse of Truths

Pakistan and its Diaspora: Multidisciplinary Approaches
2011 | Journal article
WOSUID: WOS:000294251500001
Contributors: Lyon, Stephen M.; Bolognani, Marta
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Genealogy, kinship, and knowledge: A cautionary note about causation

Behavioral and Brain Sciences
2010 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1017/S0140525X10002244

Part of ISSN:

0140-525X
Contributors: Lyon, Stephen M.
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Motivation and Justification from Dreams: Muslim Decision-Making Strategies in Punjab, Pakistan

History and Anthropology
2010 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2010.500813
WOSUID: WOS:000210665500004
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Notes from a Small Place: Anthropological Blues in the Face of Global Terror

2010 | Journal article
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Oak Park Stories

Visual Anthropology Review
2009 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/J.1548-7458.2009.01022.X
WOSUID: WOS:000211315600017
Contributors: Lyon, Stephen M.
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The Internet and the Future of Social Science Research

The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods
2008 | Book chapter
Contributors: Fischer, Michael; Lyon, Stephen; Zeitlyn, David
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Anthropology and Displacement: Culture, Communication and Computers Applied to a Real World Problem

2006 | Journal article
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Celebrating 20 years of the Lake District Pakistan Workshop

Contemporary South Asia
2006 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/09584930601097945
WOSUID: WOS:000211925400001
Contributors: Bolognani, Marta; Lyon, Stephen
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Kinship, computing, and anthropology

Social Science Computer Review
2006 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1177/0894439305281494

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0894-4393
Contributors: Lyon, SM; Magliveras, SS
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Culture and information: An anthropological examination of communication in cultural domains in Pakistan

Cybernetics and Systems
2005 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1080/01969720500306410

Part of ISSN:

0196-9722
Contributors: Lyon, SM
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Imagined diasporas among Manchester Muslims: The public performance of Pakistani transnational identity politics

Anthropological Quarterly
2005 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1353/anq.2005.0013

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0003-5491
Contributors: Lyon, S.
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Introduction

Cybernetics and Systems
2005 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1080/01969720500356654

Part of ISSN:

0196-9722
Contributors: Fischer, Michael D.; Read, Dwight; Lyon, Stephen M.
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Modeling context in Punjabi conflict resolution: Social organizations as context agents

Cybernetics and Systems
2004 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1080/01969720490426867

Part of ISSN:

0196-9722
Contributors: Lyon, S
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Nomadism and colonialism: a hundred years of Baluchistan, 1872-1972

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
2003 | Journal article
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1359-0987
Contributors: Lyon, S.
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Kinship, honour, and money in rural Pakistan: Subsistence economy and the effects of internal migration

Journal of Asian Studies
2002 | Journal article
DOI:

10.2307/2700358

Part of ISSN:

0021-9118
Contributors: Lyon, S.
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Peer review (13 reviews for 6 publications/grants)

Review activity for American ethnologist. (1)
Review activity for History and anthropology. (4)
Review activity for Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science. (2)
Review activity for Political and legal anthropology review : (2)
Review activity for Social science computer review (3)
Review activity for Sociological methods & research (1)
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