Reo Fortune

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Reo Fortune was a New Zealand social anthropologist known for his fieldwork in Melanesia and his early contributions to psychological anthropology.

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Label Occurrences
Reo Fortune canonical 6

Statements (42)

Predicate Object
instanceOf anthropologist
human
psychological anthropologist
social anthropologist
academicSpecialization Melanesians
surface form: Melanesian societies

culture and personality studies
areaOfActivity Oceania
Pacific Islands
countryOfCitizenship New Zealand
discipline anthropology
educatedAt Cambridge University
surface form: University of Cambridge

Victoria University of Wellington
fieldOfWork Melanesian ethnography
psychological anthropology
social anthropology
fieldworkArea Dobu
surface form: Dobu Island

Melanesia
Papua New Guinea
gender male
genre cultural anthropology
ethnography
hasNationality New Zealander
influenced development of psychological anthropology
influencedBy Bronisław Malinowski
Margaret Mead
Ruth Benedict
knownFor early contributions to psychological anthropology
fieldwork in Melanesia
languageOfWork English
notableConcept analysis of Dobuan culture
notableWork Sorcerers of Dobu
occupation academic
ethnographer
placeOfBirth New Zealand
researchInterest kinship systems
magic and sorcery
personality and culture
social structure
spouse Margaret Mead
Ruth Benedict
studiedUnder Bronisław Malinowski
Charles Gabriel Seligman

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- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
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Subject: Reo Fortune
Description of subject: Reo Fortune was a New Zealand social anthropologist known for his fieldwork in Melanesia and his early contributions to psychological anthropology.

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Margaret Mead spouse Reo Fortune
Mead spouse Reo Fortune
subject surface form: Margaret Mead
Dobu people anthropologicalSource Reo Fortune
Manus people studiedBy Reo Fortune
Arapesh studiedBy Reo Fortune
Sorcerers of Dobu author Reo Fortune