Jack Goody

Sir Jack Goody FBA
Goody in 2009
Born	John Rankine Goody (1919-07-27)27 July 1919 Hammersmith, England
Died	16 July 2015(2015-07-16) (aged 95) Cambridge, England
Spouses	Mary Joan Wright ​ (divorced)​ Esther Newcomb Goody ​ ​ (m. 1956, divorced)​ [1] Juliet Mitchell ​ (m. 2000)​
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Oxford St John's College, Cambridge
Doctoral advisor	Meyer Fortes
Other advisors	E. E. Evans-Pritchard
Academic work
Discipline	Anthropology
Sub-discipline	Social anthropology
Institutions	St John's College, Cambridge

Sir John Rankine Goody FBA (27 July 1919 – 16 July 2015) was an English social anthropologist. He was a prominent lecturer at Cambridge University, and was William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology from 1973 to 1984.

Among his main publications were Death, property and the ancestors (1962), Technology, Tradition, and the State in Africa (1971), The myth of the Bagre (1972) and The domestication of the savage mind (1977).^[2]