My friend Ken Brown, who has died aged 88, was a social anthropologist, sociologist and senior lecturer at Manchester University for two decades.
He was born in Los Angeles to Rose (nee Glesby) and Samuel Brown, who ran a family clothes shop in Beverly Hills. They lived in West Hollywood, where Ken attended Hollywood high school. At 18 he went to Chicago University, graduating in history in 1957; soon after that he went to Jerusalem, where he met Josy Cohen, a librarian, who later became a social worker. They married in 1958.
