Jack Goody

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Jack Goody was a prominent British social anthropologist known for his influential work on kinship, literacy, and the comparative study of social systems across Africa and Eurasia.

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instanceOf human
social anthropologist
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
educatedAt St John’s College, Cambridge NERFINISHED
employer St John’s College, Cambridge NERFINISHED
Cambridge University
surface form: University of Cambridge
ethnicGroup English
familyName Goody NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork African studies
Eurasian social systems
anthropology of kinship
anthropology of literacy
comparative sociology
social anthropology
givenName Jack NERFINISHED
hasGender male
influenced Africanist anthropology
anthropology of kinship
historical sociology
literacy studies
knownFor comparative analysis of Africa and Eurasia
comparative study of kinship systems
critique of Eurocentrism in social theory
theory of literacy and social organization
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf British Academy NERFINISHED
name Jack Goody NERFINISHED
notableWork Cooking, Cuisine and Class NERFINISHED
Production and Reproduction NERFINISHED
The Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe NERFINISHED
The Domestication of the Savage Mind NERFINISHED
The East in the West NERFINISHED
The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society NERFINISHED
The Theft of History NERFINISHED
placeOfBirth Hertfordshire NERFINISHED
positionHeld Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge
Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge
studied comparative history of Eurasia
inheritance systems
kinship
marriage systems
oral and written traditions
social change in Africa

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