Year: 1970
Type: editorial
Abstract: It was a hot June day when I went to interview 74-year old Professor Ronnie Frankenberg at his home in Keele.Ronnie is one of the founding forebears of the discipline of medical anthropology and is equally involved and esteemed in the world of sociology.The Festschrift conference held in his honour in 2000 at Brunel University, to celebrate his 50 years of academic endeavour, was marked by the high calibre of participants.Many of these were Ronnie's former students, working across different disciplines: education, sociology and anthropology -evidence of his farreaching influence across disciplinary boundaries.I phoned Ronnie the day before our scheduled interview to ask if 10 o'clock in the morning would be too early to arrive.Ronnie told me with boyish enthusiasm that it would be no problem, as he would be up at 6am to watch the transit of Venus across the sun with the aid of his son's telescope.After a lifetime's work in academia Ronnie still flows over with infectious enthusiasm, not only for academic topics but, in polymath style, for cultural events and global happenings.If there is a new art exhibition in town Ronnie will invariably have seen it and incorporated it into his teaching.One of the founders of medical anthropology: a brief biography
Source: Anthropology Matters
DOI: 10.22582/am.v7i2.83
Author: Christine Barry
Institution: Brunel University of London
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1492219743