Robin Fox

Robin Fox (1934–2024), a personal recollection by Lionel Tiger Several months before completing my doctorate at the London School of Economics I attended the late physical and evolutionary anthropologist Robin […]

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Visiting Scholars

The RAI is able to act as academic host to a small number of Visiting Scholars for short periods of research using the RAI Collection (archival, photographic and film material). Research […]

Thomas Athol Joyce

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Mr. T. A. Joyce, O.B.E. The approaching retirement, to take effect early in August, is announced of Thomas Athol Joyce, deputy keeper in charge of the Sub-Department of Ethnography of […]

Alfred Cort Haddon

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ALFRED CORT HADDON 1855-1940 Haddon’s large strong frame showed intense vitality in every movement and gesture, and that vitality of body and mind maintained itself remarkably almost to the end […]

Michael Banton

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Michael Banton, 1926-2018 An Appreciation Although probably best known for his theoretical work on the concept of ‘race’, and on ethnic relations in Britain, it should be recalled that Michael […]

Charles Gabriel Seligman

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CHARLES GABRIEL SELIGMAN 1873-1940 Charles Gabriel Seligman died from infective endocarditis in a nursing home at Oxford on 19 September 1940. He was born in London on 24 December 1873, […]

William Flower

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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE ANNIVERSARY MEETING OF THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. 30th January, 1900. By C. H. Read, F.S.A. The first duty of the President […]

George Busk

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Obituary Notice of the late Professor Busk. By the death on the 10th of August last of Mr. George Busk the Institute has lost one of its oldest and most […]

John Henry Hutton

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John Henry Hutton 1885-1968 With the death of Professor John Henry Hutton in May, 1968, ended a chapter in the history of British anthropology. He was the last of the […]