Audrey Butt Colson
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Audrey Joan Butt Colson (born 15 March 1926),[1] is a social anthropologist with a particular interest in the Amerindian peoples of Guyana, Brazil and Venezuela. She was, together with Peter Rivière, one of the pioneers of Amazonian anthropology at the University of Oxford.[2][3]
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Audrey Joan Butt Colson | |
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Born | Audrey Joan Butt (1926-03-15) 15 March 1926 (age 98) Gloucestershire, England |
Alma mater | University of Oxford |
Known for | Study of the Amerindian peoples of Guyana, Brazil and Venezuela |
Spouse | Robin Colson |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Social anthropology |
Thesis | Systems of belief in relation to social structure and organisation (with reference to the Carib-speaking tribes of the Guianas) (1954) |
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Part of the permanent endowment of the University of Oxford is a fund to support South American Amerindian Studies known as the Butt Colson Amerindian Studies Bequest.[4]