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Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown is the person most responsible for bringing [[Emile Durkheim]]’s ideas into British social anthropology, | Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown is the person most responsible for bringing [[Emile Durkheim]]’s ideas into British social anthropology, | ||
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+ | ## A biographical note | ||
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+ | When Alfred was young, he was known as Alfred Brown, born in the United Kingdom, and raised by his mother who had to work to support her children after their father died when Alfred was young. Brown eventually earned a scholarship to study at Cambridge. Then he would have been able to study under anthropologists in the sense of people who were interested in the human species and its diversity, but there was no formalized sense of anthropology as a study of culture and society. Brown liked philosophy, especially the anarchist writings of Kropotkin, which got him the nickname “Anarchy Brown” (Goody 1999, 1). I imagine that anthropology students were a bunch of misfits, hipsters, and rebels even back then before there was anthropology as we know it. But Brown also legally changed his name to Radcliffe-Brown, | ||
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+ | Radcliffe-Brown eventually went on to found many of the first departments of anthropology at several universities, | ||
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+ | ## References | ||
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+ | Goody, J. R. 1999. “' | ||
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+ | Kuper, Adam. 1973. // | ||
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