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Fortes, Meyer

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Personal name headingFortes, Meyer
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Associated countryGreat Britain
Associated placeGhana
Birth date1906-04-25
Death date1982-01-27
Place of birthBritstown (South Africa)
Place of deathCambridge (England)
Field of activityTallensi (African people) Kinship Anthropology Political anthropology Sociology
AffiliationKing's College (University of Cambridge)
University of Oxford
London School of Economics and Political Science
University of Cape Town
Profession or occupationAnthropologists Social scientists
Found inPetermann, B. The gestalt theory ... 1932.
His Religion, morality, and the person, 1987: CIP t.p. (Meyer Fortes) galley (b. 1906; d. 1982)
Britannica (online), viewed February 23, 2021 (Meyer Fortes; British social anthropologist, known for his investigations of West African societies; born April 25, 1906, Britstown, Cape Province, S. Africa; died January 27, 1983, Cambridge, England; after studying at the University of Cape Town, he received his Ph.D. in psychology from London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 1930; in 1932 he turned from psychology to anthropology and studied under Bronislaw Malinowski at the LSE; during 1934-37 he worked in Ghana, and was appointed lecturer in social anthropology at the LSE upon his return; he was then appointed research lecturer in African sociology at the University of Oxford; he was professor of social anthropology at King's College, Cambridge, 1950-1973; his special interests were the political anthropology and kinship systems of various African peoples, especially the Tallensi; most of his studies were conducted in nations along the Guinea coast of Africa)
Associated languageeng