Radcliffe-Brown, A. R. (1881-1955), a British anthropologist, helped develop British social anthropology in the 1920’s. He argued that human societies should be studied the same way that a naturalist studies plants and animals. Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown was born on Jan. 18, 1881, in England and graduated from Cambridge University. In 1937, he became the first professor of social anthropology at Oxford University. He died on Oct. 24, 1955.
