Reo Franklin Fortune

Reo Franklin Fortune (March 27, 1903 - November 25, 1979 ) was an American anthropologist and ethnologist .

His main research area was Papua New Guinea . He researched the social organization of the islanders of Dobu in the western Pacific and the religion of the inhabitants of Manus , an island in the Admiralty Islands . His main work deals with the magicians of Dobu. However, his research results are questioned by recent studies by the anthropologist Susanne Kuehling .

Fortune was married to Margaret Mead , whose theories he partially rejected.

With his study of the so-called Fortunate numbers and prime numbers , he was also known for his contributions to number theory .

Works

• The Social Organization of Dobu. London 1931
• Onama Secret Societies. New York, Columbia University Press 1932 (Contributions to Anthropology; Columbia University; Vol. 14)
• Manus religion: an ethnological study of the Manus natives of the Admiralty Islands. Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society , 1935 (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge; 3)
• " Arapesh Warfare." In: American Anthropologist NS 41, 1939, pp. 22-41
• Arapesh. New York, Augustin 1942 (Publications of the American Ethnological Society; 19)
• Sorcerers of Dobu: the social anthropology of the Dobu islanders of the western Pacific. Introduction by Bronisław Malinowski . New York, Dutton 1963

literature

• Nancy McDowell: The Mundugumor: From the Field Notes of Margaret Mead and Reo Fortune. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution 1991
• Margaret Mead: A Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years. New York, 1975; ISBN 0671826360

Name variants

Reo Franklin Fortune, Reo F. Fortune, RF Fortune, R. Fortune, Reo Fortune

Web links

• Literature by and about Reo Franklin Fortune in the catalog of the German National Library