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Born April 25, 1906 • South Africa
Died January 27, 1983 (aged 76) • Cambridge • England
Subjects Of Study Tallensi • kinship • political system
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Maurice Freedman
British anthropologist
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John Ferguson McLennan
Scottish lawyer and ethnologist
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W. H. R. Rivers
British anthropologist
Lewis Henry Morgan
Lewis Henry Morgan
American anthropologist
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Richard Thurnwald
German ethnologist
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Edward W. Gifford
American anthropologist
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Max Gluckman
South African anthropologist
Walter Bagehot
Walter Bagehot
British economist and journalist
Bronisław Malinowski
Bronisław Malinowski
Polish-born British anthropologist
Edward Burnett Tylor
Sir Edward Burnett Tylor
British anthropologist
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E.E. Evans-Pritchard
British anthropologist
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Sir James George Frazer
British anthropologist
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A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
British anthropologist
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C.G. Seligman
British anthropologist
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Alfred Cort Haddon
British anthropologist
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R.H. Codrington
British anthropologist and priest
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S.F. Nadel
British anthropologist
Spencer, Sir Baldwin
Sir Baldwin Spencer
British anthropologist
William Robertson Smith
William Robertson Smith
Scottish scholar
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Audrey I. Richards
British anthropologist