F. G. Bailey

Frederick George Bailey
Born24 February 1924
Died8 July 2020 (aged 96)
NationalityBritish
Academic background
Alma mater
Thesis"A Village on the Hindu Frontier of Orissa" (1954)
Doctoral advisorMax Gluckman and Elizabeth Colson
Academic work
DisciplineAnthropology
Sub-disciplinePolitical anthropology
Institutions

Frederick George Bailey (24 February 1924 – 8 July 2020[1]), who published professionally as F. G. Bailey, was a British social anthropologist who spent the second half of his career in the United States at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He received his Ph.D. in social anthropology from Manchester University, working under Max Gluckman, and is closely associated with the Manchester School of social anthropology. A prolific writer of some sixteen books in anthropology, he is probably best known for his studies of local and organizational politics. He conducted fieldwork in Bisipāra, Orissa, India,[2] and has also written on political functions, particularly the ways that social structure arises out of and is used by the interactions of individuals.[3]

In 1956, Bailey joined the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) as a lecturer and then a reader. In 1964 he moved to the new anthropology department at the University of Sussex.[4]

He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1976[5] At the time he was a professor at the University of Sussex. He moved to San Diego, California in 1971 as part of the core faculty of the newly established department of anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, where he taught until retiring in 1997.

Bailey continued to write and publish anthropological books for another decade after his official retirement. He died in July 2020 at the age of 96.[6]

  1. ^ Simpson, Edward (26 February 2021). "Obituary (I): F. G. Bailey (24 February 1924–8 July 2020)". Contributions to Indian Sociology. 55 (1): 123–125. doi:10.1177/0069966720976507. ISSN 0069-9667.
  2. ^ Tina Otten, Edward Simpson (2016) "F G Bailey's Bisipara Revisited." Review of Rural Affairs, Vol. 51, Issue No. 26-27, 25 Jun 2016 https://www.epw.in/journal/2016/26-27/review-rural-affairs/f-g-baileys-bisipara-revisited.html
  3. ^ Lewellen, Ted C. (2003) Political Anthropology: An Introduction 3rd Edition. Westport, CT: Praeger. ISBN 978-0897898911
  4. ^ "F.G. Bailey". Department of Anthropology and Sociology. SOAS. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015.
  5. ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 5 May 2011.
  6. ^ Barrett, Stanley R. "F. G. Bailey". Anthropology News. American Anthropological Association. Archived from the original on 13 November 2020.