THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
McKim Marriott, world-renowned scholar of India and caste, 1924-2024
July 25, 2024
Prof. Emeritus McKim Marriott, a leading University of Chicago anthropologist whose ethnographic research in India revolutionized the study of the caste system, died July 3. He was 100.
Marriott spent more than four decades of his academic career at UChicago, where his scholarship pushed the boundaries of South Asian anthropology, and his teaching and mentoring inspired generations of students.