Alfred Radcliffe-Brown

Alfred Radcliffe-Brown
A. R. Radcliffe-Brown
Born
Alfred Reginald Brown

17 January 1881
Birmingham, England
Died24 October 1955 (1955-10-25) (aged 74)
London, England
NationalityBritish
Scientific career
FieldsSocial anthropology

Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown, FBA (born Alfred Reginald Brown; 1881–1955) was an English social anthropologist who helped further develop the theory of structural functionalism. He conducted fieldwork in the Andaman Islands and Western Australia, which became the basis of his later books. He held academic appointments at universities in Cape Town, Sydney, Chicago, and Oxford, and sought to use model the field of anthopology after the natural sciences.