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Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown, FBA (born Alfred Reginald Brown; 1881–1955) was an English social anthropologist who helped further develop the theory of structural functionalism. He conducted fieldwork in the Andaman Islands and Western Australia , which became the basis of his later books.
Daniel Radcliffe: 1989– Actor British (English) actor, most famous for his lead role in the Harry Potter series. "I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do. Anything he does on television, I will watch." [3] Alfred Radcliffe-Brown: 1881 ...
Analysed by British social anthropologist Alfred Radcliffe-Brown in 1940, [2] it describes a kind of ritualised banter that takes place, for example between a man and his maternal mother-in-law in some South African indigenous societies.
Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881–1955), social anthropologist Vilayanur Ramachandran (born 1947), psychologist, neuroscientist John Ray (1627–1705), naturalist; created the principles of plant classification
In fact, the name Rainbow Serpent or Rainbow Snake appears to have been coined in English by Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, an anthropologist who noticed the same concept going under different names among various Aboriginal Australian cultures, and called it "the rainbow-serpent myth of Australia."
In 1926 a British anthropologist specialising in Australian Aboriginal ethnology and ethnography, Professor Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, noted many Aboriginal groups widely distributed across the Australian continent all appeared to share variations of a single (common) myth telling of an unusually powerful, often creative, often dangerous snake or ...
Alfred Radcliffe-Brown's Social organization of Australian tribes is published. R. H. Tawney's Land and Labour in China is published. Beatrice Webb's and Sidney Webb's Methods of Social Study is published.
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