Geoffrey Gorer
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| Considering that many American social scientists during the first two-thirds of the 20th century had at least a passing familiarity with psychoanalytic theory, it is difficult to determine precisely which ones should be considered primarily as psychoanalytic anthropologists. Many anthropologists who studied personality ([[Cora DuBois]], [[Clyde Kluckhohn]], [[Geoffrey Gorer]]) drew heavily on psychoanalysis; most members of the "Culture and Personality School" of psychological anthropology did so. | Considering that many American social scientists during the first two-thirds of the 20th century had at least a passing familiarity with psychoanalytic theory, it is difficult to determine precisely which ones should be considered primarily as psychoanalytic anthropologists. Many anthropologists who studied personality ([[Cora DuBois]], [[Clyde Kluckhohn]], [[Geoffrey Gorer]]) drew heavily on psychoanalysis; most members of the "Culture and Personality School" of psychological anthropology did so. | ||
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He was educated at Charterhouse and at Jesus College, Cambridge. During the 1930s he wrote unpublished fiction and drama. His first book was The Revolutionary Ideas of the Marquis de Sade (1934, revised 1953, 1964). He then published an account of a journey in Africa, Africa Dances (1935, new edns. 1949, 1962), and another cultural study Bali and Angkor, or, Looking at Life and Death (1936). Hot Strip Tease appeared in 1937 and Himalayan Village in 1938.
From 1939 he lived and worked in the United States. He wrote The Americans (1948), The People of Great Russia: A Psychological Study (1949, new edn. 1962), and worked with various official and semi-official organizations on studies in Soviet and other cultures. "Modern types (1955) was his last book written in America.
From 1957 he again worked in England. Exploring English Character, based on a large survey he designed, appeared in 1955. Death, Grief, and Mourning in Contemporary Britain appeared in 1965. The Danger of Equality and other essays (1966) collected some recent papers. Sex and Marriage in England Today appeared in 1971.
Psychoanalytic Anthropology
See Psychological anthropology
Considering that many American social scientists during the first two-thirds of the 20th century had at least a passing familiarity with psychoanalytic theory, it is difficult to determine precisely which ones should be considered primarily as psychoanalytic anthropologists. Many anthropologists who studied personality (Cora DuBois, Clyde Kluckhohn, Geoffrey Gorer) drew heavily on psychoanalysis; most members of the "Culture and Personality School" of psychological anthropology did so.
