Charles Gabriel Seligman
British physician and ethnologist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Charles Gabriel Seligman FRS[1] FRAI (né Seligmann; 24 December 1873 – 19 September 1940) was a British physician and ethnologist. His main ethnographic work described the culture of the Vedda people of Sri Lanka and the Shilluk people of the Sudan. He was a professor at London School of Economics and was influential as the teacher of men who became influential anthropologists, such as Bronisław Malinowski, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, and Meyer Fortes.[2]
Charles Gabriel Seligman | |
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Born | Charles Gabriel Seligmann 24 December 1873 London, England |
Died | 19 September 1940 Oxford, England |
Citizenship | British |
Alma mater | St Thomas' Hospital |
Known for | Races of Africa (1930) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Anthropology, history |
Seligman was a proponent of the Hamitic hypothesis, according to which, some civilizations of Africa were thought to have been founded by Caucasoid Hamitic peoples.[3][4][5] His work in the 1920s and 1930s is now seen as "white supremacist".[3]