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A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
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A.R. Radcliffe-Brown carried out fieldwork among the Andaman Islanders between 1906 and 1908, published in 1922 as The Andaman Islanders, and went on to argue that a society's customs and institutions should be studied as parts working together to maintain the social structure as a whole, a position known as structural functionalism and distinguished from Malinowski's functionalism by its focus on structure over individual need. He held chairs at Cape Town, Sydney, Chicago and, from 1937, the first professorship of social anthropology at Oxford, and taught at the London School of Economics earlier in his career.
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Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown (né Brown; 17 January 1881 – 24 October 1955) was an English social anthropologist who helped develop the theory of structural functionalism.
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