a British historian and academic. Together, they have had two children: one son and one daughter. Honours James was awarded the Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology by the Royal Anthropological Institute for her monograph The Listening Ebony: Moral Knowledge, Religion and Power among the Uduk of Sudan in 1988. In 2005, she was awarded an honorary Dr Scientiarum Anthropologicarum (DSc) degree by the University of Copenhagen. She was awarded the Rivers Memorial Medal by the Royal Anthropological Institute in 2009. In 1999, James was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. In the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) "for services to scholarship". Selected works References External links Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 15 May 2009 (video) 1940 births Living people British anthropologists British women anthropologists Social anthropologists Alumni of St Hugh's College, Oxford Fellows of St Hugh's College, Oxford Fellows of St Cross College, Oxford Academic staff of the University of Khartoum Fellows of the British Academy Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Presidents of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland