Person

Radcliffe-Brown, Alfred Reginald (1881 - 1955)

Born
17 January 1881
Aston, Warwickshire, England
Died
24 October 1955
London, England
Occupation
Anthropologist

Summary

Alfred Radcliffe-Brown was Professor of Anthropology, University of Sydney 1926-1931. He first visited Australia in 1910 to join E.L. Grant-Watson and D. Bates on an expedition to the north-west to study remnants of Aboriginal tribes.

Details

Chronology

1926 - 1927
Career event - Elected Associate Member (Anthropology), Australian National Research Council
1926 - 1931
Career position - Professor of Anthropology, University of Sydney
1927
Career event - Elected Member (Anthropology), Australian National Research Council
1930
Career position - President, Section F (Anthropology), Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science

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Archival resources

University of Sydney, Archives

  • Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown - Records, 1910 - 1955, P 129; University of Sydney, Archives. Details

Published resources

Book Sections

  • Hogbin, Ian, 'Radcliffe-Brown, Alfred Reginald (1881-1955), Anthropologist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 11: 1891 - 1939 Nes-Smi, Geoffrey Serle, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1988), p. 322. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110333b.htm. Details
  • Maddock, Kenneth, 'Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown, 1881-1955' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). Details

Resources

McCarthy, G.J.

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