Meyer Fortes: Ashanti Social Survey c.1873-1978
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Fortes, Meyer
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Meyer Fortes (1906-1983), anthropologist, was born in Britstown, Cape Colony, on 25 April 1906. He carried out research on intelligence tests at University College London from 1927, for which he was awarded a Ph.D. in 1930. Thereafter, he became a research student at the London School of Economics, lecturing there, 1938-1939, and at Oxford, 1939-1941. He was head of the Sociological Department, Accra, Gold Coast, 1944-1946; Reader in Social Anthropology, Oxford University, 1946-1950; and William...
Fortes, Meyer
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Meyer Fortes (1906-1983), anthropologist, was born in Britstown, Cape Colony, on 25 April 1906. He carried out research on intelligence tests at University College London from 1927, for which he was awarded a Ph.D. in 1930. Thereafter, he became a research student at the London School of Economics, lecturing there, 1938-1939, and at Oxford, 1939-1941. He was head of the Sociological Department, Accra, Gold Coast, 1944-1946; Reader in Social Anthropology, Oxford University, 1946-1950; and William...
