Farès K Moussa
Anthropologist, archaeologist and consultant in heritage and arts/culture management
Farès is an anthropologist, archaeologist and consultant in heritage and arts/culture management, with a particular expertise in North African, Saharan and central Mediterranean Phoenicio-Punic, Amazigh (‘Berber’), Nuraghic (Sardinia) and Roman archaeology, as well as contemporary ‘folk’ Islamic practices. His portfolio career over the last twenty-five years has included numerous archaeological survey, excavation and heritage impact mitigation projects in the MENA region and Europe; and Directorships in several arts/culture organisations in the UK. He has been leading and lecturing on archaeological tours since 2006.
Farès read Anthropology and Psychology at the University of East London, Archaeology at University College London and University of Edinburgh; and was Marie Curie Fellow in the History of Thought at the École normale supérieure (Paris). He is particularly interested in the relationships people develop with material and visual culture, especially in ‘religious’ contexts; and how different human perceptions and understanding of the world are determined. He has several journal and chapter publications and is currently writing his first book based on his thesis (University of Southampton) about how human cognition underlies different types of relationship to material culture.
