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Frederick George Bailey | |
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| Born | 24 February 1924 |
| Died | 8 July 2020 (aged 96) |
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| Thesis | "A Village on the Hindu Frontier of Orissa" (1954) |
| Doctoral advisor | Max Gluckman andElizabeth Colson |
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| Discipline | Anthropology |
| Sub-discipline | Political anthropology |
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Frederick George Bailey (24 February 1924 – 8 July 2020[1]), who published professionally asF. G. Bailey, was a British socialanthropologist who spent the second half of his career in the United States at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He received his Ph.D. in social anthropology fromManchester University, working underMax Gluckman, and is closely associated with theManchester School of social anthropology. A prolific writer of some sixteen books in anthropology, he is probably best known for his studies of local and organizational politics. He conducted fieldwork in Bisipāra,Odisha, India,[2] and has also written on political functions, particularly the ways that social structure arises out of and is used by the interactions of individuals.[3]
In 1956, Bailey joined theSchool of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) as a lecturer and then a reader. In 1964 he moved to the new anthropology department at the University of Sussex.[4]
He was elected a Fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1976[5] At the time he was a professor at theUniversity of Sussex. He moved to San Diego, California in 1971 as part of the core faculty of the newly established department of anthropology at theUniversity of California, San Diego, where he taught until retiring in 1997.
Bailey continued to write and publish anthropological books for another decade after his official retirement. He died in July 2020 at the age of 96.[6]
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