Julian Alfred Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers (16 March 1919 – 12 August 2001) was a British social anthropologist, an ethnographer, and a professor at universities in three countries.
Family background
Pitt-Rivers was a great-grandson of the
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Augustus Pitt Rivers
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. His father was the anthropologist and propertied
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Rosalind Pitt-Rivers
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, an eminent biochemist. He had two brothers, one by each of his father's marriages. His elder brother
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inherited their father's substantial estates, and in the 1950s was caught in a legal case which contributed to national debate. His younger half-brother Anthony was born in 1932. After the war, his father fell in love with
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; she changed her name to his, but they never married. When George Pitt-Rivers died in 1966, he left much of his fortune to her.
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. Through his work as an ethnographer of empathic considerations for cultural diversity, he rebelled against his father, a
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The People of the Sierra
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'' in 1954. The introduction was provided by his Oxford professor,
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Personal life
Pitt-Rivers was married three times. His first wife, whom he married on 17 August 1946, was Pauline Laetitia Tennant, daughter of actress Hermione Baddeley and aristocrat David Tennant. They divorced in 1953. In 1955, he married Margarita Larios y Fernandes de Villavicencio, the former wife of Miguel, duke of Primo Rivera; they divorced in 1971. His third wife, whom he married in 1971, was Françoise Geoffroy, who survived him. He had no children. During his last years, he was afflicted by dementia that set in nearly five years before his death in 2001 and while he was still producing excellent work.
Publications
* Pitt-Rivers, Julian. ''The fate of Shechem:or, The politics of sex: essays in the anthropology of the Mediterranean''. Cambridge
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New York: Cambridge University Press, 1977.
* Pitt-Rivers, Julian, Ed., ''Mediterranean countrymen;essays in the social anthropology of the Mediterranean'', Paris: Mouton, 1963.
* Pitt-Rivers, Julian Alfred, ''The people of the Sierra''. Introd. by E. E. Evans-Pritchard. New York: Criterion Books, 1954.