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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.
The prefix 'structural' emerged in Radcliffe-Brown's specific usage. [7] Radcliffe-Brown proposed that most stateless, "primitive" societies, lacking strong centralized institutions, are based on an association of corporate-descent groups, i.e. the respective society's recognised kinship groups. [ 8 ]
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Ian Hogbin was born in Bawtry, Yorkshire, England in 1904.. Hogbin began his study of anthropology with Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown, who founded the anthropology department at the University of Sydney, and his earliest field work was carried out under Radcliffe-Brown's supervision in Ontong Java, a Polynesian colony in the Solomon Islands.
Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown (1881–1955), British social anthropologist; Charles C. Ragin, American sociologist; Gustav Ratzenhofer, Austrian sociologist; Stephen Raudenbush, American sociologist and statistician; Aviad Raz (born 1968), Israeli sociologist and anthropologist; Mark Regnerus, American sociologist
3.2 Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown. 3.3 Marcel Mauss. 3.4 Claude Lévi-Strauss. 3.5 Mary Douglas. 4 Major areas of research. Toggle Major areas of research subsection.
E. E. Evans-Pritchard with a group of Zande boys in Sudan.Picture taken in the period 1926–1930. Sir Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard FBA FRAI (21 September 1902 – 11 September 1973) was an English anthropologist who was instrumental in the development of social anthropology.
The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI) is a long-established anthropological organisation, and Learned Society, with a global membership.. Its remit includes all the component fields of anthropology, such as biological anthropology, evolutionary anthropology, social anthropology, cultural anthropology, visual anthropology and medical anthropology, as well as sub ...