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Adam Kuper was born on 29 December, 1941 in Johannesburg, Union of South Africa, is a South African social anthropologist. Discover Adam Kuper's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 82 years old?

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Age 82 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 29 December 1941
Birthday 29 December
Birthplace Johannesburg, Union of South Africa
Nationality South Africa

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1941

Adam Jonathan Kuper (born 29 December 1941) is a South African anthropologist most closely linked to the school of social anthropology.

In his works, he often treats the notion of "culture" skeptically, focusing as much on how it is used as on what it means.

Kuper was the son of Simon Meyer Kuper and Gertrude Hesselman.

He was raised in Johannesburg and attended Parktown Boys' High School.

He took his first degree at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.

His doctorate, from the University of Cambridge, was based on field research in the Kalahari desert in what is now Botswana.

After graduation he returned to Africa, doing further fieldwork in Botswana and Uganda.

The sociologist Leo Kuper and anthropologist Hilda Kuper were his uncle and aunt.

1944

He married Jessica Cohen (1944-2013) of Johannesburg in 1966 and taught from 1967 to 1970 at Makerere University in Kampala.

1970

From 1970 to 1976 he taught at University College London.

In the early 1970s Kuper did fieldwork in Jamaica, on attachment to the National Planning Agency in the Office of the Prime Minister.

However his main ethnographic focus continued to be the societies of Southern Africa, on which he has published several books.

1973

In 1973 he published a history of British social anthropology, and since then he has continued to study and publish on the intellectual history of anthropology, most recently a book on the idea of culture in the anthropological tradition.

1976

From 1976 to 1985 he was professor of African anthropology at Leiden University in the Netherlands.

1985

From 1985 to 2008 he was a professor at Brunel University, where he was the first head of the Department of Human Sciences, and latterly head of the Anthropology Department.

2000

In 2000 and in 2007 he was, respectively, awarded the Rivers Memorial Medal and the Huxley Memorial Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

2003

He was awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Grant for two years (2003-5) which allowed him to spend more time on research.

The topic was cousin marriage and incest in nineteenth century England.

He has supervised many PhD students on Southern African ethnography, history of anthropology, family business, and kinship.

2006

This was because of changes to the 2006 Employment (Age) Regulations making mandatory retirement imposed by the employer unlawful.

2008

Instead, he was forcibly retired in late 2008, just after the census date for publications submitted to the Research Assessment Exercise had passed.

Kuper responded by suing the university for breach of contract.

2009

In January 2009 it was revealed that Brunel had reneged on an agreement to let him stay until 2010.

2011

Kuper was a Visiting Professor at Boston University, 2011–14, and a Centennial Professor, London School of Economics, from 2013-14 where he still holds a visiting appointment.

He has lived in Muswell Hill for over 25 years.

The football writer Simon Kuper is his son.

In 2011, employment laws were changed to permit phased retirements past the age of 65.