Maurice Freedman

Maurice Freedman (11 December 1920 – 14 July 1975) was a British social anthropologist and Sinologist whose work focused on Chinese society, with particular attention to kinship, marriage, lineage organisation, and the study of Chinese religion. He studied anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, began teaching there in 1951, and became Professor of Anthropology in 1965. In 1970 he was appointed to succeed E. E. Evans-Pritchard as Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford, where he became a Fellow of All Souls College. Provided by Wikipedia