ARGYLE, William Johnson ‘John’. 1941-1949. M.A. B.Litt. D.Phil (Oxford) after National Service in the Royal Navy. Social Anthropologist. Lecturer, Rhodes University, then University of Natal at Durban. Lecturer, Queen Mary College, London. Professor of Social Anthropology, Durban, 1971-1996. Retired to Devon and then Bristol. b 1931 Matlock, Derbyshire; d 20 September 2021. Obituary here.
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