abstraction of a social situation reflects social reality in all details. Therefore, all analysis is done on the basis of imagination. Selected publications 1912, "The Distribution of Native Tribes in Part of Western Australia", Man, 12: 143-146. 1913, "Three Tribes of Western Australia", The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 43: 143-194. 1922, The Andaman Islanders; a study in social anthropology. 1926, 'Arrangements of Stones in Australia', Man, 26: 204-205. 1931, Social Organization of Australian Tribes. 1935, Structure and Function in Primitive Society, American Anthropologist, Vol. XXXVII. 1940, "On Joking relationships": Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, Vol. 13, No. 3 (Jul. 1940), pp. 195–210 1948, A Natural Science of Society'': based on a series of lectures at the University of Chicago in 1937 and posthumously published by his students References External links On the concepts of function and social structure in social science 1955 deaths 1881 births Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge English anthropologists Fellows of the British Academy Functionalism (social theory) People educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham Social anthropologists Academic staff of the University of Cape Town