Brenda Seligman
Brenda Seligman | |
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Charles Seligman |
Brenda Zara Seligman (
Life
Seligman was born in London in 1883.[1] She was educated at home before attending Roedean and then she took pre-medical studies at Bedford College.[2]
She married pathologist and anthropologist Charles Seligman in 1905, and helped write up his notes from his visit to New Guinea. The British government was commissioning ethnographic surveys and the two of them undertook that work in Sri Lanka in 1907/8 studying aboriginal culture there.[2] They published a jointly-authored book on this work, The Veddas, in 1911.[3] In 1909 they were undertaking anthropological work in Sudan and archaeological work in Egypt. They returned to Sudan in 1911/12 and 1921/22 where Brenda learnt Arabic. They returned to Egypt in 1913/14.[2]
She would sort out genealogies and wider relationships including particularly women and children where she could gain access denied to men. She and Charles took a joint interest in psychology, magic and beliefs. She tended to leave the study of less abstract aspects to Charles.[2]
She was the winner of
In 1932 they published Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan which documented work they did together.[4] He died in 1940.
In 1958 she worked with the American born anthropologist,
Brenda Seligman died in Kensington in 1965. The papers of the Seligmans are held at the London School of Economics.[6]
Works include
- The Veddas, 1911
- Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan, 1932[7]
References
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36011. Retrieved 28 October 2019. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ a b c d "Charles and Brenda Seligman biography at the Pitt Rivers Museum History, 1884 - 1945". history.prm.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
- ISBN 9781371410506.)
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link - ^ "C.G. Seligman | British anthropologist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
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- ^ "SELIGMAN, Brenda Zara, d 1960, and SELIGMAN, Charles Gabriel, 1873-1940, anthropologists - Archives Hub". archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
- ^ Seligman, C. G.; Seligman, Brenda Z. Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.