ANTHROPOLOGIST

Jack Goody

1919 - 2015

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Sir John Rankine Goody (27 July 1919 – 16 July 2015) was an English social anthropologist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jack Goody has received more than 195,712 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Jack Goody is the 61st most popular anthropologist, the 3,168th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 10th most popular British Anthropologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 200k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Jack Goody ranks 61 out of 93. Before him are Ralph Linton, Fei Xiaotong, Edmund Leach, Fiona Graham, Melville J. Herskovits, and Georges Balandier. After him are Arjun Appadurai, Johann Carl Fuhlrott, Philippe Descola, Max Gluckman, George Murdock, and Gayle Rubin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Jack Goody ranks 222. Before him are Alan Brown, Bep Voskuijl, Daniil Granin, Hau Pei-tsun, Veikko Huhtanen, and Laurence J. Peter. After him are Paolo Soleri, Ladislav Mňačko, Maurice Boitel, Delfo Cabrera, Wilson Greatbatch, and Åke Seyffarth. Among people deceased in 2015, Jack Goody ranks 270. Before him are Florence Arthaud, Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, Danièle Delorme, Cilla Black, Lizabeth Scott, and Julio Terrazas Sandoval. After him are Patricia Crone, Yossi Sarid, Ivan Davidov, Stephan Beckenbauer, William Wakefield Baum, and Gamal El-Ghitani.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jack Goody ranks 3,168 out of 8,785. Before him are Nathaniel Bliss (1700), Wilko Johnson (1947), John D. Barrow (1952), John Steiner (1941), Clive Bell (1881), and Sophie Kinsella (1969). After him are John Colet (1467), Charles Lee (1731), Rosemary Sutcliff (1920), Kenneth Cranham (1944), Arthur Russell (1886), and Quentin Crisp (1908).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among anthropologists born in United Kingdom, Jack Goody ranks 10. Before him are Gregory Bateson (1904), Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881), E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1902), Mary Leakey (1913), Victor Turner (1920), and Edmund Leach (1910). After him are Ashley Montagu (1905), Marilyn Strathern (1941), Hugh Falconer (1808), W. H. R. Rivers (1864), Chris Stringer (1947), and Alice Roberts (1973).

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