biography
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Forde, (Cyril) Daryll
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| (1902–73)
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| biography:
| Anthropologist, born in London, UK. He studied at University College London, and taught there (1923–8) and at the University of Wales (1930–45), before returning to London as professor of anthropology (1945–69). He carried out anthropological fieldwork in Arizona and New Mexico (1928–9), reported in Habitat, Economy and Society (1934), which won him wide acclaim. He made extensive contributions to the anthropology of Africa, and was director of the African Institute (1945–73). |
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