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RADCLIFFE-BROWN, ALFRED REGINALD (1881-1955), anthropologist, was born on 17 January 1881 at Aston, Warwickshire, England, second son of Alfred Brown (d.1886), manufacturer's clerk, and his wife Hannah, née Radcliffe. He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A., 1905; M.A., 1909), graduating with first-class honours in the moral sciences tripos. He studied psychology under W. H. R. Rivers who, with A. C. Haddon, led him toward social anthropology. Elected Anthony Wilkin student in ethnology in 1906 (and 1909), he spent two years in the field in the Andaman Islands. A fellow of Trinity (1908-14), he lectured twice a week on ethnology at the London School of Economics and visited Paris where he met the sociologist Emile Durkheim, whose theories coloured all his subsequent work. At Cambridge on 19 April 1910 he married Winifred Marie Lyon; they were divorced in 1938.

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by Radcliffe-Brown, A. R. (Alfred Reginald), 1881-1955
London ; New York : Published for the International African Institute by the Oxford University Press, 1950
 
 
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Uniform title: Oceania (Sydney, N.S.W. : 1930 : Print)
[Sydney] : University of Sydney, 1930-
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