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Fortes received his anthropological training from Charles Gabriel Seligman at the London School Of Economics . Fortes also trained with Bronislaw Malinowski and Raymond Firth . Along with contemporaries A. R. Radcliffe-Brown , Sir Edmund Leach , Audrey Richards , and Lucy Mair , Fortes held strong Functionalist views that insisted upon Empirical Evidence in order to generate analyses of society. His volume with E. E. Evans-Pritchard , ''African Political Systems'' (1940) established the principles of segmentation and balanced opposition, which were to become the hallmarks of African political anthopology. Despite his work in Francophone West Africa, Fortes' work on political systems was influential to other British anthropologists, especially Max Gluckman and played a role in shaping what became known as the Manchester School of Social Anthropology, which emphasized the problems of working in colonial Central Africa. Fortes spent much of his career as a Reader at the University Of Cambridge . EXTERNAL LINKS
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