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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.
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.
The preface to African Political Systems was authored by A.R. Radcliffe-Brown (1881–1955), then Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford, who argued that the "comparative study of political institutions, with special reference to the simpler societies, is an important branch of social anthropology which has not yet ...
Influences include both the methodological revolution pioneered by Bronisław Malinowski's process-oriented fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands of Melanesia between 1915 and 1918 [36] and Alfred Radcliffe-Brown's theoretical program for systematic comparison that was based on a conception of rigorous fieldwork and the structure-functionalist ...
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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.
Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881–1955): English social anthropologist who developed the theory of Structural functionalism. [135] Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957): Austrian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, known as one of the most radical figures in the history of psychiatry. [136]
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