| LC control no. | n 50025304 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Fortes, Meyer |
| Associated country | Great Britain |
| Associated place | Ghana |
| Birth date | 1906-04-25 |
| Death date | 1982-01-27 |
| Place of birth | Britstown (South Africa) |
| Place of death | Cambridge (England) |
| Field of activity | Tallensi (African people) Kinship Anthropology Political anthropology Sociology |
| Affiliation | King's College (University of Cambridge) University of Oxford London School of Economics and Political Science University of Cape Town |
| Profession or occupation | Anthropologists Social scientists |
| Found in | Petermann, 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 language | eng |
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