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Alfred Radcliffe-Brown
Sign in to saveAlso known as Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown, A.R. Radcliffe-Brown, A. R. Radcliffe-Brown
British anthropologist (1881–1955)
Key facts
- Born
- Alfred Reginald Brown , 17 January 1881, Birmingham , England
- Died
- 24 October 1955 (1955-10-24) (aged 74), London , England
- Fields
- Social anthropology
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Alfred
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Birmingham
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- sociologist
- Educated at
- University of Cambridge
- Employer
- University of Oxford
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- atheism
- Field of work
- cultural anthropology
- Image
- Alfred Radcliffe-Brown.jpg
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- Commons category
- Alfred Radcliffe-Brown
- date of birth
- 1881-01-17
- date of death
- 1955-10-24
- name in native language
- Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown
- archives at
- Pitt Rivers Museum
- influenced by
- Émile Durkheim
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Encyclopedic overview
Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown FBA (né Brown; 17 January 1881 – 24 October 1955) was an English social anthropologist who helped develop the theory of structural functionalism. He performed fieldwork in the Andaman Islands and Western Australia, which became the basis of his later books. He had academic appointments at universities in Cape Town, Sydney, Chicago, and Oxford, and sought to model the topic of anthropology after the natural sciences.
Biography
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