Cyril Daryll ('Daryll') Forde

Prof. Cyril Daryll ('Daryll') Forde
Born	1902
Died	1973
Residence	University College, Gower Street Dept. of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, California [1929] Prof. of Geography and Anthropology, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth [1931] University College, Gower Street, WC1 [1949]
Occupation	anthropologist academic
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow left 1973 deceased elected_AI 1926.07.13

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Office Notes

RAI Council 1934-35 Member
RAI Council 1935-36 Member
RAI Council 1936-37 Member
RAI Council 1938-39 Member
RAI Council 1939-40 Member
RAI Council 1940-41 Member
RAI Council 1942-43 Member
RAI Council 1943-44 Member
RAI Council 1945-46 Vice President
RAI Council 1946-47 Vice President
RAI Council 1947-48 President
RAI Council 1948-49 President

House Notes

1926.06.22 proposed by V. Gordon Childe, seconded by H.J.E. Peake
1939 Wellcome medal. Government in Umor: a study of social change and problems of indirect rule in a Nigerian village community
1955 Rivers Memorial Medal
1970 HML Ecology and social structure
1973.05 death noted

Notes From Elsewhere

Cyril Daryll Forde (* 16th March 1902 in London ; † 3. May 1973 ) was a British anthropologist, ethnologist and Africanist.
Forde had at the University of California, Berkeley under Alfred Kroeber and Robert Lowie studied. In the United States he was influenced by the growing ecological anthropology, and after his return to Britain, he was for many years the leading representative of the "ecological anthropology" (ecological anthropology) in British anthropology. At University College London , where he worked since 1945, he built within the British Academy an enclave on American style. Forde worked closely with Alfred Radcliffe-Brown , Meyer Fortes and Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard , and contributed to the structural functionalist school.
From 1928 to 1929 he led field studies in Arizona and New Mexico by, he in his most popular work Habitat, Economy and Society: reported a Geographical Introduction to Ethnology (1934), the great acclaim found. He made a great contribution to the anthropology of Africa. He was among others the famous anthology African Worlds : Studies in the Cosmological Ideas and Social Values of African Peoples out (1954). From 1945 to 1973 he was director of the International African Institute .

Publications

House Publications

1930. On the use of greenstone (jadeite, callais etc.) in the megalithic culture of Brittany
Hopi Agriculture and Land Ownership; JRAI Vol. 61 (Jul. - Dec., 1931), pp. 357-405
May 16 1936 read Land and labour on the Cross River illustrated by lantern slides
1937.03.16 read paper on Double Descent in a Semi-Bantu people of S.E. Nigeria
1938. Fission and accretion in the patrilineal clans of a semi-Bantu community in southern Nigeria
1940.03.09 Professor C. DARYLL FORDE read his paper on " Yak6 Marriage," illustrated by lantern slides

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MS 189 Wellcome