Goody, Jack

Religion, morality, and the person
Book 1987

Summary: Sir John Rankine Goody 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. Wikipedia
Gender or Sex: Male [1][2][3][4][5][6]
Born: 1919-07-27 [2][5]
Birth Place: London [2]; Hammersmith [5]
Died: 2015-07-16 [2][5]
Death Place: Cambridge [2][5]
Country: Great Britain [2]
Language: English [3]
Occupation: anthropologist [5]; university teacher [5]; historian [5]; sociologist [5]
Employer: University of Cambridge [5]
Educated at: St John's College [5]; St Albans School [5]
Country of Education: United Kingdom [5]
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Biography (requires subscription) [5]
Yale LUX: Entity [5]

Sources: 1. VIAF; 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany); 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France; 4. National Library of Korea; 5. Wikidata; 6. Library of Congress

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