Daryll Forde
Cyril Daryll Forde (born March 16, 1902 in London , † May 3, 1973 in London ) was a British anthropologist, ethnologist and Africanist.
Forde had studied at the University of California, Berkeley under Alfred Kroeber and Robert Lowie . In the United States he was influenced by growing ecological anthropology, and on his return to Great Britain he was for many years the leading exponent of ecological anthropology in British anthropology. At University College London , where he had worked since 1945, he built an American-style enclave within the British Academy. Forde worked closely with Alfred Radcliffe-Brown , Meyer Fortes and Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard , and made a contribution to the structural functionalist school.
From 1928 to 1929 he conducted fieldwork in Arizona and New Mexico , which he reported in his most popular work Habitat, Economy and Society: a Geographical Introduction to Ethnology (1934), which was widely acclaimed. He made a great contribution to the anthropology of Africa. Among other things, he edited the famous anthology African Worlds : Studies in the Cosmological Ideas and Social Values of African Peoples (1954). From 1945 to 1973 he was director of the International African Institute .
plant
- together with Diedrich Hermann Westermann : Ida Caroline Ward , Africa, 20 1-5, 1950
literature
- Daryll Forde 1902-1973. In: Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, Vol. 43, No. 4 (Oct. 1973), pp. 281-283
- Mary Douglas ; Phyllis Mary Kaberry (Ed.): Man in Africa . London, Tavistock 1969
Web links
- Literature by and about Daryll Forde in the catalog of the German National Library
- Extensive bibliography
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Forde, Daryll |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Forde, Cyril Daryll |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British anthropologist, ethnologist and Africanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 16, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 3rd 1973 |
| Place of death | London |