Jack Herbert Driberg

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Jack Herbert Driberg
BornApril 1888
Died1946(1946-00-00) (aged 57–58)
Known for'The Lango: A Nilotic Tribe of Uganda
AwardsWellcome Medal for Anthropology (1931)[1]

Jack Herbert Driberg (April 1888 – 5 February 1946) was a British

Uganda Protectorate and published The Lango: A Nilotic Tribe of Uganda in 1923.[2]

Personal life and education

Driberg was born in April 1888. He attended

Hertford College. He died on 5 February 1946.[2]

Professional work

Driberg became involved in the

London, England and attended the London School of Economics. He became faculty in the anthropology department at the University of Cambridge. In 1939 he began serving during World War II.[2]

The Lango: A Nilotic Tribe of Uganda

While in the Uganda Protectorate, Driberg lived with the

ethnographic look at the Langi. It includes fables and a Lango-English dictionary.[3]

Further reading

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