Radcliffe-Brown, A(lfred) R(eginald)
- Radcliffe-Brown, A(lfred) R(eginald)
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born Jan. 17, 1881, Birmingham, Warwick, Eng.
died Oct. 24, 1955, London
British social anthropologist.
He taught at the universities of Cape Town, Sydney, Chicago, and Oxford. In his version of
functionalism, he viewed the component parts of society (e.g., the kinship system, the legal system) as having an indispensable function for one another, the continued existence of one component being dependent on that of the other, and he developed a systematic framework of concepts relating to the social structures of small-scale societies. He had a profound impact on British and American social anthropology. Among his major works are
The Andaman Islanders (1922) and
Structure and Function in Primitive Society (1952).
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Universalium.
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