Phyllis Kaberry

Phyllis Mary Kaberry ( born September 17 1910 in San Francisco; † 31 October 1977 in Camden, London) was an American anthropologist who worked in Australia and England.

Career

She received her PhD at the University of Sydney on culture contact in Melanesia and research in Australia and Africa. In the journal Oceania published them in their early days. From 1965 to 1968 she was Vice President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.

When anthropological classics applies her work on Aboriginal women.

She was friends with Sally Chilver.

Works

• Culture contact in Melanesia. M. A. Thesis University of Sydney 1935
• Aboriginal woman: sacred and profane London, Routledge 1939
• British colonial policy in Southeast Asia and the development of self -government in Malaya. London 1944. New York, 1945.
• Women of the Grassfields. A study of the economic position of women in Bamenda, British Cameroons. London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1952.
• ( Eds.), Bronislaw Malinowski: The dynamics of culture change. An inquiry into race relations in Africa. Edited by Phyllis M. Kaberry. New Haven, Yale University Press; London, Oxford University Press 1945 The dynamics of cultural change. Introduced v. Phyllis M. Kaberry. Vienna -Stuttgart, Humboldt 1951