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Ronald Frankenberg (20 October 1929 – 20 November 2015) was a British anthropologist and sociologist, known for his study of conflict and decision-making in a Welsh village. He also contributed to the development of medical anthropology.

Frankenberg was a member of the Manchester School of British Social Anthropology.

Biography

Frankenberg was born in London on 20 October 1929 to Louis and Sarah Frankenberg. He obtained a degree at Cambridge University and completed his MA and PhD at the University of Manchester. He was a student of Max Gluckman. For his PhD, he studied the complexities and conflict in a Welsh mining community called Glyn Ceiriog. This research was published as Village on the Border.

Frankenberg began teaching anthropology at Keele University in 1969. He was involved in studies concerning children in film, AIDS literature, and representations of death in the twentieth century. His works during the 1970s are considered to be among those by socially-oriented physicians that led to the emergence of critical medical anthropology in the United States and the United Kingdom. In his later years, Frankenberg was active in promoting this field in the United States.

Frankenberg was married to Dr. Pauline Frankenberg (née Hunt), author of Gender and Class Consciousness (1980). One of his daughters was sociologist Ruth Frankenberg.

Publications

• Village on the Border (1957)
• Communities in Britain (1966)

See also

• Bronislaw Malinowski Award

References

1. ^ Robinson, Ian (2016). "Ronald (Ronnie) Jonas Frankenberg". Royal Anthropological Institute. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
2. ^ Rubinstein, W.; Jolles, Michael A. (27 January 2011). The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. Springer. ISBN 978-0-230-30466-6.
3. James, Allison; Prout, Alan (1997). Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood: Contemporary Issues in the Sociological Study of Childhood, Second Edition. London: Falmer Press. p. 247. ISBN 0-203-36260-8.
4. ^ Baer, Hans A.; Singer, Merrill; Susser, Ida (2013). Medical Anthropology and the World System: Critical Perspectives, 3rd Edition: Critical Perspectives. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. pp. 24–25. ISBN 978-1-4408-0255-3.
5. Mike Savage, Ronald Frankenberg obituary, The Guardian, 4 January 2016.

External links

• interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 5 July 1983 (video)
• Ronald Frankenberg at "Pioneers of Qualitative Research" from the Economic and Social Data Service

• British anthropologists
• Academics of Keele University
• 1929 births
• 2015 deaths