biography
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Seligman, C(harles) G(abriel)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1873–1940)
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| biography:
| Anthropologist, born in London, UK. He trained as a physician in London, then joined the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Straits (1898–9), and carried out subsequent field research in New Guinea, Ceylon, and the Sudan. His principal works include The Veddas (Ceylon) (1911) and Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan (1932), both co-authored with his wife. His appointment in 1913 to the first chair of ethnology at London University turned his interests towards anthropology. He pioneered the application of a psychoanalytic approach, influencing the work of Malinowski and Evans-Pritchard. |
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