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Audrey Richards

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Gender Female
Death40 years ago
Date of birth July 8,1899
Zodiac sign Cancer
Born London
United Kingdom
DiedMidhurst
United Kingdom
Date of died June 29,1984
Education London School of Economics and Political Science
Newnham College, University of Cambridge
Parents Henry Erle Richards
[Mary] Isabel Butler
Known forAnthropology of Nutrition
African Studies
Anthropology
BooksChisungu
Chisungu: A Girl's Initiation Ceremony Among the Bemba of Zambia
Hunger and work in a savage tribe
Land, Labour and Diet in Northern Rhodesia: An Economic Study of the Bemba Tribe
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Audrey Isabel Richards, CBE, FRAI, FBA, was a pioneering British social anthropologist. She produced notable ethnographic studies. The most famous of which is Chisingu: A Girl's initiation ceremony among the Bemba of Zambia.

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