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Alfred Cort Haddon

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British anthropologist (1855-1940)

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Alfred Cort Haddon was an influential British anthropologist and ethnologist. Initially a biologist, who achieved his most notable fieldwork with W. H. R. Rivers, Charles Gabriel Seligman and Sidney Ray on the Torres Strait Islands.

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1937Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
1899Fellow of the Royal Society
1897Doctor of Science
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
Fellow of the Zoological Society of London
Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi

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Alfred Cort Haddon was an influential British anthropologist and ethnologist. Initially a biologist, who achieved his most notable fieldwork with W. H. R. Rivers, Charles Gabriel Seligman and Sidney Ray 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.

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Lived 1855 to 1940 · aged 84
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