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Born April 25, 1906 • South Africa
Died January 27, 1983 (aged 76) • Cambridge • England
Subjects Of Study Tallensi • kinship • political system
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British anthropologist
John Ferguson McLennan
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W. H. R. Rivers
British anthropologist
Lewis Henry Morgan
Lewis Henry Morgan
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Edward W. Gifford
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Max Gluckman
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Walter Bagehot
Walter Bagehot
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Bronisław Malinowski
Bronisław Malinowski
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R.H. Codrington
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E.E. Evans-Pritchard
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Spencer, Sir Baldwin
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William Robertson Smith
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