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Interview of Jack Goody, 18 May 1991


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Goody, Jack 

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Jack Goody describes his education, his time as a prisoner of war in Italy, his later career as a distinguished anthropologist in Cambridge. He draws attention to the influence of thinkers such as Gordon Childe, and his interest in the wide contrasts between Africa and Eur-Asia

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An interview of about 90 minutes, conducted by Eric Hobsbawm and filmed by Alan Macfarlane

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anthropology, Cambridge, west Africa, culture, literacy, kinship

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