Jack Goody

Sir Jack Goody
FBA
Goody in 2009
Born
John Rankine Goody

(1919-07-27)27 July 1919
Hammersmith, England
Died16 July 2015(2015-07-16) (aged 95)
Cambridge, England
Spouses
  • Mary Joan Wright
    ​
    (divorced)​
  • Esther Newcomb Goody
    ​
    ​
    (m. 1956, divorced)​
    [1]
  • ​
    (m. 2000)​
Academic background
Alma mater
Doctoral advisorMeyer Fortes
Other advisorsE. E. Evans-Pritchard
Academic work
DisciplineAnthropology
Sub-disciplineSocial anthropology
InstitutionsSt John's College, Cambridge

Sir John Rankine Goody FBA (27 July 1919 – 16 July 2015) was an English social anthropologist. He was a prominent lecturer at Cambridge University, and was William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology from 1973 to 1984.

Among his main publications were Death, property and the ancestors (1962), Technology, Tradition, and the State in Africa (1971), The myth of the Bagre (1972) and The domestication of the savage mind (1977).[2]

  1. ^ "In Remembrance of Dr Esther Goody". Department of Social Anthropology - University of Cambridge. 19 January 2018.
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