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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Predicate Object
instanceOf anthropologist
human
psychological anthropologist
social anthropologist
academicSpecialization Melanesian societies
culture and personality studies
areaOfActivity Oceania
Pacific Islands
countryOfCitizenship New Zealand
discipline anthropology
educatedAt University of Cambridge NERFINISHED
Victoria University of Wellington
fieldOfWork Melanesian ethnography
psychological anthropology
social anthropology
fieldworkArea Dobu Island NERFINISHED
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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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead
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