Jack Goody

Anthropologist, Author

1919 –

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Who is Jack Goody?

Sir John Rankine Goody is a British social anthropologist. He has been a prominent teacher at Cambridge University, he was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1976, and he is an associate of the US National Academy of Sciences. Among his main publications are Death, property and the ancestors, Technology, Tradition, and the State in Africa, The myth of the Bagre and The domestication of the savage mind.

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Born
Jul 27, 1919
United Kingdom
Also known as
  • John Rankine Goody
Nationality
  • United Kingdom
Profession
Education
  • St John's College, Cambridge
Lived in
  • St Albans
  • Welwyn Garden City

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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