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_{Esther Goody (third from the left) with Meyer Fortes (fourth from the right) and other attendees at the 1976 Lomé conference on the African family.}

It is with the greatest sadness that we learn of the death of our former colleague, Dr Esther Goody, who taught in this department for many years, and will be remembered with great affection by former colleagues, students, and friends.

Tributes below are from Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Marilyn Strathern, Penelope Brown and Stephen Levinson, Chris Hann, Barbara Bodenhorn, David Zeitlyn and Susan Drucker Brown and Keith Hart.

Honouring Esther Goody

In 1975, armed with my BA in Sociology from Tehran University, I came to Cambridge hoping to pursue a PhD. I had no clue what I wanted to do apart from the fact that I was interested in studying women and the family. A friend who was teaching Persian at what was then the Faculty of Oriental Studies suggested that I should talk to Dr Esther Goody, and made an appointment for me. I went to Adams Road, with my PhD proposal in hand. I’ll never forget my first meeting with Esther. I said I was

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