Pnina werbner biography of christopher columbus

Professor Pnina Werbner, 3 December  – 17 January

Pnina Werbner was a British social anthropologist, a brilliant thinker and an engaged intellectual renowned for her prolific contributions to debates on Sufi Islam, multiculturalism and diaspora, as well as urban and legal anthropology.

In January , she died unexpectedly during a holiday with her husband, the anthropologist Richard Werbner.

Born in South Africa in , Pnina immigrated to Israel with her parents when she was six years old. She obtained her bachelor's and master's degrees in English literature and philosophy from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and in sociology and social anthropology from Tel Aviv University before moving to Manchester in In , she received her doctorate from the University of Manchester, where she had studied with the late Max Gluckman, the South African social anthropologist and founder of the Manchester School, who also happened to be her uncle.

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