Veena Das
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Veena Das, FBA (born 1945) in India is the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University.[1] Her areas of theoretical specialisation include the anthropology of violence,[2] social suffering,[3] and the state.[4] Das has received multiple international awards including the Ander Retzius Gold Medal, delivered the prestigious Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture and was named a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[5]