Alfred Gell
Born: June 12, 1945
Died: January 28, 1997 (aged 51)
Bio: Alfred Antony Francis Gell, FBA 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.
Known for:
- Art and agency
- The art of anthropology
- The anthropology of time (1992)
- Wrapping in images (1993)
- Metamorphosis of the cassowaries (1975)
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