In the 1976 installment of a lecture series named for this thinker, Edmund Leach criticized his attempts to construct a "natu
In the 1976 installment of a lecture series named for this thinker, Edmund Leach criticized his attempts to construct a "naturalscience of society," and suggested that a seashell metaphor used by this man in correspondence with a colleague was takenfrom D'Arcy Thompson's On Growth and Form. This thinker engaged in a notable 1937 debate over what the theory of sucha science would look like with Mortimer Adler at the University of Chicago, where this thinker trained Fred Eggan, WilliamWarner, and the excellently-named Sol Tax. This man argued that fraternal equivalence was the most common classifiÂcationprinciple adopted in primitive society in his article "The Mother's Brother in South Africa," which became the fiÂrst part of alarger volume that also examined "The Sociological Theory of Totemism," and was titled Structure and Function in PrimitiveSociety. This man's most famous work relied on Durkheim in arguing that the purpose of things like the "Religious and MagicalBeliefs" and "Myths and Legends" of the title people was the maintenance of "social cohesion." For 10 points, identify thisBritish anthropologist who was among the founders of structural functionalism and wrote The Andaman Islanders.
In the 1976 installment of a lecture series named for this thinker, Edmund Leach criticized his attempts to construct a "naturalscience of society," and suggested that a seashell metaphor used by this man in correspondence with a colleague was takenfrom D'Arcy Thompson's On Growth and Form.
Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown