Meyer Fortes
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Meyer Fortes was a prominent British social anthropologist known for his influential work on kinship, religion, and political organization in West African societies.
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| Meyer Fortes canonical | 6 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Meyer Fortes Context triple: [Bronisław Malinowski, influenced, Meyer Fortes]
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Melville J. Herskovits
Melville J. Herskovits was an American anthropologist known for pioneering African and African diaspora studies and for challenging racial and cultural biases in social science.
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B.
E. E. Evans-Pritchard
E. E. Evans-Pritchard was a prominent British social anthropologist known for his influential ethnographic studies of African societies and his role in shaping structural-functionalism in anthropology.
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C.
Walter Sande
Walter Sande was an American character actor known for his prolific work in film and television from the 1930s through the 1960s, often appearing in Westerns and crime dramas.
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D.
Frances Shapiro Herskovits
Frances Shapiro Herskovits was an American anthropologist and collaborator known for her work alongside her husband Melville J. Herskovits in the development of cultural anthropology.
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E.
Raymond Firth
Raymond Firth was a prominent New Zealand-born social anthropologist best known for his influential work on economic anthropology and his studies of Tikopia society.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Meyer Fortes Target entity description: Meyer Fortes was a prominent British social anthropologist known for his influential work on kinship, religion, and political organization in West African societies.
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A.
Melville J. Herskovits
Melville J. Herskovits was an American anthropologist known for pioneering African and African diaspora studies and for challenging racial and cultural biases in social science.
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B.
E. E. Evans-Pritchard
E. E. Evans-Pritchard was a prominent British social anthropologist known for his influential ethnographic studies of African societies and his role in shaping structural-functionalism in anthropology.
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C.
Walter Sande
Walter Sande was an American character actor known for his prolific work in film and television from the 1930s through the 1960s, often appearing in Westerns and crime dramas.
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D.
Frances Shapiro Herskovits
Frances Shapiro Herskovits was an American anthropologist and collaborator known for her work alongside her husband Melville J. Herskovits in the development of cultural anthropology.
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E.
Raymond Firth
Raymond Firth was a prominent New Zealand-born social anthropologist best known for his influential work on economic anthropology and his studies of Tikopia society.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British anthropologist
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human ⓘ social anthropologist ⓘ |
| academicDegree | PhD in anthropology ⓘ |
| approach | structural-functionalism ⓘ |
| citizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| coAuthorWith | E. E. Evans-Pritchard ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1906-04-25 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1983-01-27 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
London School of Economics
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University of Cape Town ⓘ |
| employer |
University of Cambridge
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linked to:
Cambridge University
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| ethnographicRegion | West Africa ⓘ |
| familyName | Fortes ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
anthropology of religion
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kinship studies ⓘ political anthropology ⓘ social anthropology ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Meyer ⓘ |
| influenced |
British social anthropology
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kinship theory in anthropology ⓘ |
| knownFor |
analysis of ancestor worship
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studies of West African societies ⓘ theory of kinship and descent ⓘ work on Ashanti social structure ⓘ work on Tallensi social organization ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | British Academy ⓘ |
| name | Meyer Fortes ⓘ |
| notableWork |
African Political Systems
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Kinship and the Social Order ⓘ Oedipus and Job in West African Religion ⓘ The Dynamics of Clanship among the Tallensi ⓘ The Web of Kinship among the Tallensi ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Bristol ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Cambridge ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge
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William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
Ashanti people of Ghana
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linked to:
Ashanti people
Tallensi people of northern Ghana ⓘ |
| studied |
ancestor worship in West Africa
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relationship between kinship and political organization ⓘ |
| theoreticalContribution |
analysis of descent groups and lineage organization
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concept of the developmental cycle of the domestic group ⓘ |
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