ANTHROPOLOGIST

Alfred Radcliffe-Brown

1881 - 1955

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfred Radcliffe-Brown has received more than 423,506 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred Radcliffe-Brown is the 14th most popular anthropologist, the 774th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 754th in 2019) and the 5th most popular British Anthropologist.

Alfred Radcliffe-Brown was a British anthropologist who was most famous for his work on kinship and social organization. He is considered one of the founders of structural-functionalism.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown ranks 14 out of 93. Before him are Margaret Mead, Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, Gregory Bateson, Clifford Geertz, and Knud Rasmussen. After him are Eugène Dubois, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Edward T. Hall, Mary Douglas, Mary Leakey, and Marc Augé.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown ranks 43. Before him are Ivan Ribar, Natalia Goncharova, Theodore von Kármán, Carlo Carrà, Otto Wille Kuusinen, and Otto Bauer. After him are Emil Ludwig, Ludwig Binswanger, William Boeing, Giovanni Papini, Nikolai Myaskovsky, and Franz Gürtner. Among people deceased in 1955, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown ranks 32. Before him are Garegin Nzhdeh, Leonid Govorov, Mihály Károlyi, Michael Chekhov, Vasily Blokhin, and Rodolphe Seeldrayers. After him are Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh, Princess Clémentine of Belgium, Cordell Hull, Alexander Wienerberger, John Mott, and Alexandros Papagos.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown ranks 774 out of 8,785. Before him are Judith of Flanders (844), Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury (1473), Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853), Rachel Weisz (1970), Ian McDiarmid (1944), and Clementine Churchill (1885). After him are Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset (1519), Jean Simmons (1929), Richard Wilson (1936), Ken Hensley (1945), Julie Walters (1950), and Thomas De Quincey (1785).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among anthropologists born in United Kingdom, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown ranks 5. Before him are James George Frazer (1854), Jane Goodall (1934), Edward Burnett Tylor (1832), and Gregory Bateson (1904). After him are E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1902), Mary Leakey (1913), Victor Turner (1920), Edmund Leach (1910), Jack Goody (1919), Ashley Montagu (1905), and Marilyn Strathern (1941).

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