Alfred Cort Haddon
British anthropologist (1855-1940) · Academics · Died at 84
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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1940Died20 April 19401937Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardsAward1899Fellow of the Royal SocietyAward1897Doctor of ScienceAward1855Born24 May 1855
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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
