Jack Goody a fost profesor de antropologie sociala la Cambridge, pina in 1985. In prezent este profesor la St. John's College. Printre lucrarile publicate, se numara: „Production and Reproduction” (1976), „The Domestication of the Savage Life (1977), „The Logic of Writting and the Organization of Society” (1986), „The Interface between the Written and the Oral” (1987), „The Power of the Written Tradition” (2000).