Alfred Cort Haddon
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1855 – 1940
Who was Alfred Cort Haddon?
Alfred Cort Haddon, Sc.D., FRS, FRGS was an influential British anthropologist and ethnologist. Initially a biologist, who achieved his most notable fieldwork, with W.H.R. Rivers, C.G. Seligman, Sidney Ray, Anthony Wilkin on the Torres Strait Islands.
He returned to Christ's College, Cambridge, where he had been an undergraduate, and effectively founded the School of Anthropology. Haddon was a major influence on the work of the American ethnologist Caroline Furness Jayne.
In 2011, Haddon's 1898 The Recordings of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits were added to the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia's Sounds of Australia registry. The original recordings are housed at the British Library and many have been made available online.
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- Born
- May 24, 1855
London - Also known as
- Alfred C. Haddon
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Education
- Christ's College, Cambridge
- Died
- Apr 20, 1940
Cambridge
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on July 23, 2013
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