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
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q135576. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/32059686. Details
- 'Radcliffe-Brown, A R (1881-1955)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1287932. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 2 March 2018
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