biography
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Haddon, Alfred Cort
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| lived:
| (1855–1940)
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| biography:
| Anthropologist, born in London, UK. He studied at Cambridge, and was appointed professor of zoology at Dublin (1880). A visit to the Torres Straits, ostensibly to study coral reefs, led to his interest in the native culture of the region, and he went on to organize the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Straits (1898–9), in which were developed the basic techniques of modern anthropology. He later became reader in ethnology at Cambridge University (1904–25). |
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