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Audrey Richards
Born
(1899-07-08)8 July 1899[2]
London, England
Died
29 June 1984(1984-06-29) (aged 84)[2]
Midhurst, West Sussex, England
Nationality (legal)
British
Citizenship
British
Alma mater
Newnham College, Cambridge London School of Economics
Known for
Anthropology of Ritual, Anthropology of Nutrition, African Studies, Interdisciplinary Anthropology
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Fields
Social anthropology[1]
Doctoral advisor
Bronisław Malinowski
Doctoral students
Archie Mafeje
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Audrey Isabel Richards, CBE, FRAI, FBA (8 July 1899 – 29 June 1984),[3] was a pioneering British social anthropologist. She produced notable ethnographic studies. The most famous of which is Chisungu: A Girl's initiation ceremony among the Bemba of Zambia.
Her work also covered diverse topics such as nutrition, family structure, migration, and ethnicity. She conducted her field work in Zambia, Uganda and Essex.[4]
^Gladstone, Jo (May 1986). "Significant sister: Autonomy and Obligation in Audrey Richards' Early Fieldwork". American Ethnologist. 13 (2): 338–362. doi:10.1525/ae.1986.13.2.02a00100. JSTOR 644137.
^ abRaymond, Firth (June 1985). "Audrey Richards 1899-1984". Man. New Series. 20 (2). Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland: 341–344. JSTOR 2802389.
^Haines, Catharine M. C. (2001). International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to 1950. ABC-CLIO. pp. 260–262. ISBN 9781576070901.
^La Fontaine, Jean S. (1985). "INTRODUCTION". Cambridge Anthropology. 10 (1): 1–5. ISSN 0305-7674. JSTOR 23816197.
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