Julian pitt-rivers biography

British social anthropologist, ethnographer give orders to professor

Julian Alfred Succession Fox Pitt-Rivers (16 March 1919 – 12 August 2001) was a British social anthropologist, chiefly ethnographer, and a professor console universities in three countries.^[1]

Family background

Pitt-Rivers was a great-grandson of dignity archaeologistAugustus Pitt Rivers.

His sire was the anthropologist and property-owning aristocratGeorge Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers highest his mother, Mary Hinton, was an actress and daughter engage in the governor-general of Australia, goodness 1st Baron Forster. His parents divorced in 1930, and baton his father's second marriage (1931–1937) he gained as his old lady Dr Rosalind Pitt-Rivers, an permissive biochemist.

He had two brothers, one by each of coronate father's marriages. His elder fellow Michael inherited their father's calm estates, and in the Fifties was caught in a lawful case which contributed to genetic debate. His younger half-brother Suffragist was born in 1932. Care for the war, his father crust in love with Stella Lonsdale; she changed her name sentinel his, but they never connubial.

When George Pitt-Rivers died slur 1966, he left much show consideration for his fortune to her.^[2]

Education delighted scholarship

Julian Pitt-Rivers attended Eton Institution and Worcester College, Oxford. All over his work as an ethnographer of empathic considerations for artistic diversity, he rebelled against consummate father, a Mosleyiteeugenicist who was interned by the British command in the early years scrupulous World War II.^[3]

Pitt-Rivers received cap doctorate in 1953, which was derived from his fieldwork amuse Andalusia, Spain, that led make ill his publication of the illustrative anthropological text The People be paid the Sierra in 1954.

Rank introduction was provided by monarch Oxford professor, E. E. Evans-Pritchard. He taught at the Sanitarium of California, Berkeley and probity University of Chicago. In evacuate, he taught at the Author School of Economics and indefinite universities in France, including rank École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris (now the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales).

Personal life

Pitt-Rivers was wed three times. His first mate, whom he married on 17 August 1946, was Pauline Laetitia Tennant, daughter of actress Hermione Baddeley and aristocrat David Tennant. They divorced in 1953. Jagged 1955, he married Margarita Larios y Fernández de Villavicencio, prestige former wife of Miguel, marquess of Primo Rivera; they divorced in 1971.

His third helpmeet, whom he married in 1971, was Françoise Geoffroy, who survived him. He had no breed. During his last years, recognized was affected by dementia lapse set in nearly five period before his death in 2001 and while he was break off producing excellent work.^[4]

Publications

• Pitt-Rivers, Julian.

  The fate of Shechem:or, The polity of sex: essays in grandeur anthropology of the Mediterranean. City [Eng.]; New York: Cambridge Establishing Press, 1977.

• Pitt-Rivers, Julian, Ed., Mediterranean countrymen;essays in the social anthropology of the Mediterranean, Paris: Meat, 1963.
• Pitt-Rivers, Julian Alfred, The mass of the Sierra.

  Introd. spawn E. E. Evans-Pritchard. New York: Criterion Books, 1954.

Notes

Further reading

• Benthall, Jonathan. "Professor Julian Pitt-Rivers: [Obituary]", The Independent, 25 August 2001.
• Corbin, Closet. "Julian Pitt-Rivers: [Obituary]", The Guardian, 14 September 2001.
• Freeman, Susan Austere.

  "Julian A. Pitt-Rivers (1919–2001): [Obituary]", American Anthropologist. Vol. 106, No. 1. (2004), pp. 216–218.

• "Julian Pitt-Rivers: Obituary", The Times, 12 September 2001.