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Alfred Gell
British anthropologist · United Kingdom · On the map · Academics · Lived 1945 to 1997 · aged 51
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.
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He was also a Fellow of the British Academy. He died of cancer in 1997, at the age of 51.
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United Kingdom
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1945 to 1997 · aged 51
