# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-athol-joyce
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:31:02.081Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-athol-joyce"
name: "Thomas Athol Joyce"
slug: "thomas-athol-joyce"
description: "Thomas Athol Joyce OBE FRAI was a British anthropologist. He became an acknowledged expert on American and African Anthropology at the British Museum. He led expeditions to excavate Maya sites in British Honduras. He wrote articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica including \"Negro\" which was derided in 1915 for its assumption of racial inferiority. He was the President of both the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Anthropological section of the British Association."
tagline: "British anthropologist (1878-1942)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1878-08-04"
deathDate: "1942-01-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.56
  momentum:             2.727272727272728
  historical:           3.935709333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D8%AB%D9%88%D9%84_%DA%86%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "توماس اثول چويس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Athol_Joyce"
    title: "Thomas Athol Joyce"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Athol_Joyce"
    title: "Thomas Athol Joyce"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%B9%D1%81%2C_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81"
    title: "Джойс, Томас"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15966630"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump