Ronald Frankenberg
Born(1929-10-20)20 October 1929
London
Died20 November 2015(2015-11-20) (aged 86)
NationalityBritish
Alma materCambridge University, Manchester University
Known formedical anthropology
SpousePauline Frankenberg
AwardsBronislaw Malinowski Award
Scientific career
Fieldsanthropology, sociology

Ronald Frankenberg (20 October 1929 – 20 November 2015) was a British anthropologist and sociologist, known for his study of conflict and decision-making in a Welsh village. He also contributed to the development of medical anthropology.

Frankenberg was a member of the Manchester School of British Social Anthropology.

Biography

Frankenberg was born in London on 20 October 1929 to Louis and Sarah Frankenberg.[1] He obtained a degree at Cambridge University and completed his MA and PhD at the University of Manchester.[2] He was a student of Max Gluckman. For his PhD, he studied the complexities and conflict in a Welsh mining community called Glyn Ceiriog.[1] This research was published as Village on the Border.[1]

Frankenberg began teaching anthropology at Keele University in 1969.[2] He was involved in studies concerning children in film, AIDS literature, and representations of death in the twentieth century.[3] His works during the 1970s are considered to be among those by socially-oriented physicians that led to the emergence of critical medical anthropology in the United States and the United Kingdom.[4] In his later years, Frankenberg was active in promoting this field in the United States.[4]

Frankenberg was married to Dr. Pauline Frankenberg (née Hunt),[2] author of Gender and Class Consciousness (1980). One of his daughters was sociologist Ruth Frankenberg.[5]

Publications

  • Village on the Border (1957)
  • Communities in Britain (1966)

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Robinson, Ian (2016). "Ronald (Ronnie) Jonas Frankenberg". Royal Anthropological Institute. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 Rubinstein, W.; Jolles, Michael A. (27 January 2011). The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. Springer. ISBN 978-0-230-30466-6.
  3. ↑ James, Allison; Prout, Alan (1997). Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood: Contemporary Issues in the Sociological Study of Childhood, Second Edition. London: Falmer Press. p. 247. ISBN 0-203-36260-8.
  4. 1 2 Baer, Hans A.; Singer, Merrill; Susser, Ida (2013). Medical Anthropology and the World System: Critical Perspectives, 3rd Edition: Critical Perspectives. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. pp. 24–25. ISBN 978-1-4408-0255-3.
  5. ↑ Mike Savage, Ronald Frankenberg obituary, The Guardian, 4 January 2016.
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