The RAI online obituaries project comprises biographical essays covering the life and work of deceased and distinguished anthropologists—usually though not necessarily RAI Fellows. RAI obituaries are designed to provide basic information about the deceased (name, dates and places of birth and death, affiliations, major publications, immediate survivors) for the record, as well as more personal remembrances, and to serve as a scholarly resource and RAI archive. The project is supervised by the Manuscripts and Archives Committee. RAI obituaries are solicited by the Obituaries Editor and published on the Institute’s website. This page is the Institute’s major portal for information about deaths of our colleagues. As a service to the Institute, please email the RAI Obituaries Editor at archives@therai.org.uk as soon as you learn of a death. Suggestions for possible obituarists are welcome.
Please click on a name below to read the obituary.
- Allen, N.J.
- Archer, William
- Arens, William
- Argyle, William Johnson ‘John’
- Aull Davies, Charlotte (The Guardian)
- Balfour, Henry
- Banks, Marcus (Wolfson College)
- Banks, Marcus (The Guardian)
- Banton, Michael
- Barnard, Alan (University of Edinburgh)
- Barnes, John Arundel (Wiley Online Library)
- Barnicot, Nigel
- Barth, Frederick
- Bascom, William R.
- Beddoe, John
- Blackwood, Beatrice Mary
- Boissevain, Jeremy (Wiley Online Library)
- Braunholtz, Hermann Justus (Epsilon)
- Buhler, Alfred
- Burland, Cottie
- Bushnell, Geoffrey
- Busk, George
- Byron, Reginald
- Charsley, Simon Robert
- Colson, Elizabeth
- Conklin, Harold Colyer
- Cunningham, Daniel John
- Daniel, Glyn
- Dark, Philip John Crosskey (Wiley Online Library)
- David, Nicholas (Taylor & Francis)li>
- David, Nicholas (The Guardian)li>
- Davis, John
- Dennett, Terry
- Devisch, Renaat
- Douglas, Mary (Wiley Online Library)
- Edgar, Iain
- Elkin, A.P.
- Ennew, Judith (Wiley Online Library)
- Epstein, Trude Scarlett (Wiley Online Library)
- Evans, John
- Evans-Pritchard, Edward Evan
- Fleure, Herbert John
- Flood, Glynn
- Flower, William
- Forde, Daryll
- Fortes, Meyer
- Fortune, Reo Franklin
- Fox, Robin
- Frankenberg, Ronnie
- Fraser Roberts, John
- Freedman, Maurice
- Galton, Francis
- Garrod, Dorothy Annie Elizabeth
- Gell, Alfred
- Gellner, Ernest
- Gluckman, Max
- Goldman, Philip (Wiley Online Library)
- Gomila, Jacques
- Goody, Esther
- Goody, Jack
- Gowland, William
- Graeber, David (LSE)
- Graeber, David (Independent Social Research Foundation)
- Graeber, David (The Guardian)
- Grau, Andrée
- Gullick, Charles (Wiley Online Library)
- Haddon, Alfred Cort
- Harris, Olivia (Wiley Online Library)
- Harris, Rosemary
- Harrison, Geoffrey Ainsworth (Oxford University)
- Harrisson, Tom
- Hartman, Tod
- Horton, Robin
- Hutton, John Henry
- Huxley, Francis (Wiley Online Library)
- im Thurn, Everard
- Joyce, Thomas Athol
- Kaberry, Phyllis
- Keith, Arthur
- Kemp, Jeremy
- Kesby, John D.
- Kirkpatrick, Brownlee J. (Wiley Online Library)
- Latour, Bruno
- Leach, Edmund
- Llobera, Josep Ramon (Wiley Online Library)
- Loizos, Peter (Wiley Online Library)
- Lubbock, Sir John 1st Lord Avebury
- Macalister, Alexander
- Mahmood, Saba
- Malaurie, Jean
- Maudslay, Alfred Percival
- McKnight, David (Wiley Online Library)
- Mead, Margaret
- Merriam, Alan P.
- Middleton, John Francis Marchment (Wiley Online Library)
- Mills, James Philip
- Mintz, Sidney W.
- Moore, Sally Falk
- Myres, John Linton
- Needham, Rodney (Wiley Online Library)
- Nicolaisen, Johannes
- Oakley, Kenneth Page
- Paine, Robert (Wiley Online Library)
- Palmer, John (The Guardian)
- Paluch, Andrzej K. (Wiley Online Library)
- Peake, Harold John Edward
- Peel, JDY
- Pericot Garcia, Don Luis
- Poignant, Rozlyn (The Guardian)
- Powell, Henry Arthur (Wiley Online Library)
- Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark
- Radcliffe-Brown, Alfred Reginald
- Raglan, Lord
- Read, Charles Hercules
- Redmayne, Alison (Wiley Online Library)
- Riches, David (Wiley Online Library)
- Richards, Audrey
- Ridgeway, William
- Risley, Herbert
- Rivers, William Halse Rivers
- Rosaldo, Michelle Zimbalist
- Rudler, Frederick William
- Ruel, Malcolm
- Rutten, Mario (Wiley Online Library)
- Saumarez Smith, Richard (The Guardian)
- Schapera, Isaac (British Academy)
- Seligman, Charles Gabriel
- Signorelli, Amalia
- Smith, Edwin Williams
- Southall, Aidan (RAI Online Library)
- Spencer, Paul
- Stanner, W.E.H.
- Stirling, Paul (London School of Ecenomics)
- Stirling, Paul (The Independent)
- Street, Brian
- Stuchlik, Milan
- Sunderland, Eric (Wiley Online Library)
- Swift, Michael G.
- Tapp, Nicholas
- Tiego, Yoshida
- Thompson, Eric
- Townsend, Norman A.
- Turton, Andrew (The Guardian)
- Turton, David (Granada Centre)
- Turner, Victor
- Tylor, Edward Burnett
- Utsi, Mikel
- von Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph
- Waechter, John
- Ward, Barbara
- Weiner, Joseph S.
- Werbner, Pnina (The Guardian)
- Werbner, Pnina (ASA)
- Wilson, Monica
An excellent biographical resource by Alan Macfarlane featuring interviews and films of notable deceased and living anthropologists may be found via the following link http://www.alanmacfarlane.com/ancestors/anthropology.htm