Alfred Cort Haddon

Alfred Cort Haddon ( born May 24, 1855 in London, † April 20, 1940 in Cambridge ) was a British anthropologist and zoologist.

Life and work

Alfred Haddon worked from 1888 as a zoologist in exploring the coral reefs in the Torres Strait. He learned the native inhabitants of the island world to know and was fascinated by their cultural traditions and their oral traditions. After his return to England he devoted himself again to the study and completed in 1897 in Anthropology with a Ph.D. degree at the University of Cambridge from.

He led from 1898 to 1899 the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Straits, an ethnographic expedition to the inhabitants of the islands in the Torres Strait. The results of this expedition, which he had carried out together with various professionals at the University of Cambridge, whose scientific results he published later.

From 1880 to 1910 he was a professor in Dublin. He returned to the Christ 's College (Cambridge), where he had been a student and successfully founded his own school of anthropology. From 1909 to 1926 he was a professor at Cambridge. Main focus of his work was the "racial division " of man.

Haddon's work was of influence on the development of British social anthropology.

Writings

  • The decorative art of British New Guinea. A study in Papuan ethnography. Academy House, Dublin in 1894 ( Cunningham Memoirs / Royal Irish Academy, 10)
  • The Study of Man. John Murray, 1898
  • Head - Hunters. Black, White, and Brown. 1901
  • The races of man and Their distribution. Milner & company limited, 1909
  • With A. Hingston Quiggin: History of anthropology. London, Watts & Co., 1910
  • Julian Huxley: We Europeans. a survey of ' racial ' problems. Cape 1935
  • Appendix on the physical characters of the races of Borneo. In: Charles Hose and William MacDougall: The Pagan Tribes of Borneo. A description of Their physical, moral and intellectual condition with some discussion of Their ethnic relations. London 1912
  • (Ed.) Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits. 6 volumes. 1901-1935

Name Variants

Alfred Cort Haddon, Alfred C. Haddon, Alfred Haddon, AC Haddon

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