Sir John Rankine Goody#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1046 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 1991 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Sir John Rankine Goody passed away July 16, 2015.
Positions Held
- Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John’s College
- 1973 - 1984 the William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology
- 1971 - 1973 Smuts Reader in Commonwealth Studies
- 1966 - 1973 Director of the African Studies Centre
- 1959 - 1971 ecturer in Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge
- 1954 - 1959 Assistant Lecturer at the University of Cambridge
- 1954 PhD in Anthropology
Fields of Scholarship
- Social anthropology
- Comparative anthropology of literacy
- History of the family
- The anthropology of inheritance
Honours and Awards
- 1976 Fellow of the British Academy
- 1980 Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1987 the Luce Lectures at Yale University
- 1991 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2004 Member ofthe National Academy of Sciences
- 2005 knighted by Her Majesty The Queen for services to anthropolog
- 2006 Commandeur des Arts et Lettres
- Honorary degrees from the Universities of Kent, Toronto, Paul Verlaine-Metz, Nanterre Paris X and Malta
