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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.
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
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.
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The English anthropologist Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown, who had read and admired the work of the French sociologist Émile Durkheim, argued that the goal of anthropological research was to find the collective function, such as what a religious creed or a set of rules about marriage did for the social order as a whole. Behind this approach ...
3.2 Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown. 3.3 Marcel Mauss. 3.4 Claude Lévi-Strauss. 4 Major areas of research. Toggle Major areas of research subsection.
One version found by Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown held that the first man died and went to heaven, a pleasurable world, but this blissful period ended due to breaking a food taboo, specifically eating the forbidden vegetables in the Puluga's garden. [59]
In 1930, he started teaching at the University of Sydney. On the departure for Chicago of Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, Firth succeeded him as acting Professor. He also took over from Radcliffe-Brown as acting editor of the journal Oceania, and as acting director of the Anthropology Research Committee of the Australian National Research Committee.