Sir John Rankine Goody was an English social anthropologist, born in Hammersmith, London, in 1919. He held the William Wyse Professorship of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University from 1973 to 1984, having studied under Meyer Fortes and E. E. Evans-Pritchard. Goody pioneered the comparative anthropology of literacy, examining how writing as a technology reshapes societies, and argued that the rise of science and philosophy in classical Greece depended on the invention of the alphabet; he also analyzed social structure through the combined effects of intensive agriculture, urbanization and communication technology in works including Death, Property and the Ancestors (1962), Technology, Tradition, and the State in Africa (1971) and The Domestication of the Savage Mind (1977). He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1976 and knighted in 2005 for services to social anthropology. He died in Cambridge in 2015. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account Death YearSourced to the subject's own account BirthplaceSourced to the subject's own accountHammersmith, London, England 1 Death PlaceSourced to the subject's own account Defining ContributionSourced to the subject's own accountComparative anthropology of literacy and how writing as a technology reshapes society 1 Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own accountThe Domestication of the Savage Mind (1977) 1 Connections
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Studied under E. E. Evans-Pritchard (and Meyer Fortes) at Cambridge.
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Sir John Rankine Goody FBA (27 July 1919 - 16 July 2015) was an English social anthropologist.
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Anthropologist Jack Goody's comparative study of dowry systems around the world using the Ethnographic Atlas demonstrated that dowry is a form of inheritance found in the broad swath of Eurasian societies from Japan to Ireland that practice "diverging devolution", i.e., that transmit property to children regardless of sex.
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Anthropologist Jack Goody's comparative study of marriage around the world, using the Ethnographic Atlas, demonstrated a historical correlation between the practice of extensive shifting cultivation and polygyny in many Sub-Saharan African societies.
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Anthropologist Jack Goody's comparative study of marriage around the world utilizing the Ethnographic Atlas demonstrated a historical correlation between the practice of extensive shifting horticulture and polygamy in the majority of sub-Saharan African societies.
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For example, anthropologist Jack Goody's comparative study utilizing the Ethnographic Atlas demonstrated that monogamy is part of a cultural complex found in the broad swath of Eurasian societies from Japan to Ireland that practice social monogamy, sexual monogamy and dowry (i.e.
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