Jack Goody

Social anthropology, British Academy, University of Cambridge, Welwyn Garden City, St Albans School (Hertfordshire)
Herausgegeben:Hermes, Othniel

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sir John (Jack) Rankine Goody (born 27 July 1919) is a British social anthropologist. He has been a prominent teacher at Cambridge University, he was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1976, and he is an associate of the US National Academy of Sciences. Among his main publications are Death, property and the ancestors (1962), The myth of the Bagre (1972) and The domestication of the savage mind (1977). Born on 27 July 1919, Goody grew up in Welwyn Garden City and St Albans, where he attended St Albans School . He went up to St John's College, Cambridge to study English Literature in 1938, where he came to know leftist intellectuals like Eric Hobsbawm. Fighting in North Africa in World War II, he was captured by the Germans and spent three years in a prisoner-of-war camps. Inspired by reading Frazer's Golden Bough and Gordon Childe, he transferred to Archaeology and Anthropology when he resumed university study in 1946. After fieldwork in Gonja in northern Ghana, Goody increasingly turned to comparative study of Europe, Africa and Asia.

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• Verlag: Alphascript Publishing / Bellum Publishing
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• Seitenzahl: 132
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9786138247081
• ISBN-10: 6138247086
• Artikelnr.: 34707187