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John Blacking, a Common card
John Anthony Randoll Blacking was a British ethnomusicologist and social anthropologist.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 71
- DEF
- 72
- Power
- 143
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 6,900
Ranked #1,749 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Blacking began his career with a ground-breaking, 22-month study of the culture and music making of the Venda people of northern South Africa, from 1956 to 1958.
- In 1965 Blacking became a professor and head of the social anthropology department at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.
- In 1970 he was appointed chair of the social anthropology department at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, where he developed a vibrant program in ethnomusicology, the first in Europe.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The John Blacking article was read about 6,900 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 71 and blocks with 72: each hit it takes is cut by 29 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, John Blacking (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.




