# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alfred-gell
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:41:26.392Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alfred-gell"
name: "Alfred Gell"
slug: "alfred-gell"
description: "Alfred Antony Francis Gell, was a British social anthropologist whose most influential work concerned art, language, symbolism and ritual. He was trained by Edmund Leach and Raymond Firth and did his fieldwork in Melanesia and tribal India. Gell taught at the London School of Economics, among other places. He was also a Fellow of the British Academy. He died of cancer in 1997, at the age of 51."
tagline: "British anthropologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1945-06-12"
deathDate: "1997-01-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.84
  momentum:             7.5
  historical:           5.487438666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Alfred Gell"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Gell"
    title: "Alfred Gell"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Gell"
    title: "Alfred Gell"
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  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfr%C4%93ds_Gels"
    title: "Alfrēds Gels"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Gell"
    title: "Alfred Gell"
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  - url: "https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Gell"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump