Frankenberg, Ronald
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Name (Latin)
Frankenberg, Ronald
Other forms of name
Frankenberg, Ronnie
Frankenberg, R. (Ronald)
Date of birth
1929-10-20
Date of death
2015-11-20
Place of birth
London (England)
Place of residence/headquarters
Staffordshire (England)
Other associated place
Manchester (England)
Keele (England)
Field of activity
Anthropology Sociology
Associate group
University of Manchester
University of Keele
Brunel University
Occupation
Anthropologists Sociologists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
Fuller form of name
Ronald Jonas
Sources of Information
- His Village on the border, 1957.
- Community, continuity and change in the study of Britain, c2005:t.p. (Ronnie Frankenberg) introd. (Ronald Frankenberg; pub. Village on the border, 1957; Frankenberg, R.)
- Guardian WWW site, viewed Jan. 6, 2016(Ronald Frankenberg; Ronald Jonas Frankenberg, anthropologist, born 20 October 1929, London; died 20 November 2015; in 1950 he moved to [the University of] Manchester, where he gained a master's in social anthropology and undertook the project in north Wales that brought him a PhD (1954); in 1969, after working as education officer for the National Union of Mineworkers in south Wales, and then at Manchester and at the University of Zambia, he was appointed inaugural professor of sociology at Keele University; in 1985 he became professor emeritus, but continued at Keele as director of its Centre for Medical Anthropology until 1995; his last post at Keele was as a part-time tutor in medical social anthropology (1996-2000); he was also a part-time tutor and professor of medical anthropology at Brunel University (1989-2000); after this final retirement, he continued to live in north Staffordshire; the success of Village on the Border enabled Frankenberg to straddle anthropology and sociology)
- RA. LCN 2016