Marcus Banks (anthropologist)

Marcus Banks
Banks c. 2010
Born
Marcus John Banks

4 July 1960 (1960-07-04)
Liverpool, England
Died23 October 2020(2020-10-23) (aged 60)
Oxford, England
EducationDoctorate, University of Cambridge 1985
Known forVisual anthropology
TitleProfessor of Visual Anthropology
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
Websitewww.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/news/professor-marcus-banks-obituary

Marcus John Banks (4 July 1960 – 23 October 2020 was an English visual anthropologist, who did fieldwork among the Jains in Leicester, England and Jamnagar, Gujarat, India. He was a prominent figure in the development of visual anthropology in the late 20th and early 21st Centuries.