Rodney Needham
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Rodney Needham (15 May 1923 – 4 December 2006 in Oxford) was an English social anthropologist.
Born Rodney Phillip Needham Green, he changed his name in 1947; the following year he married Maud Claudia (Ruth) Brysz.[1][2] The couple would collaborate on several works, including an English translation of Robert Hertz's Death and the Right Hand.[3][4]
His
Together with
Arnold Van Gennep and Robert Hertz
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Among other things, he contributed to the study of family resemblance, introducing the terms "monothetic" and "polythetic" into anthropology.
He had two children, one of whom, Tristan, became a professor of mathematics.
Bibliography
- 1962 Structure and sentiment
- 1971 Rethinking kinship and marriage
- 1972 Belief, language and experience
- 1973 Right and left. Essays on dual symbolic classification
- 1974 Remarks and inventions – Skeptical essays about kinship
- 1975 Polythetic classification: Convergence and consequences
- 1978 Primordial characters
- 1978 Essential perplexities
- 1979 Symbolic classification
- 1980 Reconnaissances, U. of Toronto Press, ISBN 0-8020-2365-7
- 1981 Circumstantial deliveries, Berkeley: University of California Press, ISBN 0-585-28111-4
- 1983 Against the tranquility of axioms
- 1983 Sumba and the slave trade
- 1985 Exemplars, Berkeley: University of California Press, ISBN 0-520-05200-5
- 1987 Counterpoints
- 1987 Mamboru, history and structure in a domain of Northwestern Sumba
References
- ^ a b Barnes, RH (16 January 2007). "Rodney Needham". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
- ^ a b c "Rodney Needham". The Telegraph. 13 December 2006. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
- OCLC 50252070.
- ^ a b Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900–1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 393.
- ^ "ORA Thesis: "The social organisation of the Penan"". ora.ox.ac.uk. Oxford Research Archive. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
External links
- Filmed in Canberra in 1979 by Timothy Asch, in conversation with James J. Fox.
- Obituaries:
- Full text of doctoral thesis, "The social organisation of the Penan" via Oxford Research Archive