Meyer Fortes
Meyer Fortes · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Social anthropologist known for kinship studies of the Tallensi of West Africa
1906, Britstown, South Africa — 1983, Cambridge, England
South Africa · United Kingdom · Ghana (Gold Coast)
Meyer Fortes is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Social anthropologist known for kinship studies of the Tallensi of West Africa
Fortes was a founding figure of British structural-functional anthropology whose fieldwork among the Tallensi of the Gold Coast (now Ghana) produced landmark studies of kinship, ancestor worship and the developmental cycle of domestic groups. As William Wyse Professor at Cambridge he shaped a generation of social anthropologists. He was born into a Jewish family in South Africa.
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Social anthropologist known for kinship studies of the Tallensi of West Africa
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