Jack Goody
English social anthropologist (1919–2015) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir John Rankine Goody FBA (27 July 1919 – 16 July 2015) was an English social anthropologist. He was a prominent lecturer at Cambridge University, and was William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology from 1973 to 1984.
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Born | John Rankine Goody (1919-07-27)27 July 1919 Hammersmith, England |
Died | 16 July 2015(2015-07-16) (aged 95) Cambridge, England |
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Doctoral advisor | Meyer Fortes |
Other advisors | E. E. Evans-Pritchard |
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Discipline | Anthropology |
Sub-discipline | Social anthropology |
Institutions | St John's College, Cambridge |
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Among his main publications were Death, property and the ancestors (1962), Technology, Tradition, and the State in Africa (1971), The myth of the Bagre (1972) and The domestication of the savage mind (1977).[2]