Jack Goody, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jack Goody

British anthropologist

Date of Birth: 27-Jul-1919

Place of Birth: Hammersmith, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 16-Jul-2015

Profession: historian, university teacher, sociologist, anthropologist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Sir John Rankine Goody, (27 July 1919 – 16 July 2015) was a British social anthropologist.
He was a prominent lecturer at Cambridge University, and was William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology from 1973 to 1984. Among his main publications were Death, property and the ancestors (1962), Technology, Tradition, and the State in Africa (1971), The myth of the Bagre (1972) and The domestication of the savage mind (1977).