Thomas Athol Joyce
Thomas Athol Joyce | |
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Born | 4 August 1878 London |
Died | 3 January 1942 (aged 63) Wroxham, Norfolk |
Education | Hertford College, Oxford |
Occupation | Anthropologist |
Employer | British Museum |
Thomas Athol Joyce
Life
Joyce was born in
At the end of the first World War he was awarded the
Joyce was divorced by his wife, Lilian (born Dayrell) in 1925 and his wife remarried the following year. Joyce's second partner was the travel writer
In 1927 Joyce eventually travelled abroad when he led an annual expedition team, including members of the Royal Geographical Society, to British Honduras. Reporting regularly[5] on the excavation of Mayan sites. In 1927 Joyce published a book on Mayan art where he proposed that Mexican relief sculpture exceeded that of the quality of Egypt of Mesopotamia. He also made the claim that given that they had not discovered the potter's wheel they had created very high quality ceramics.[6] His wife came with him in 1929 and she changed her interests, spending the next ten years in complementary studies and writing. Elliott, Joyce's partner still took a great interest in anthropology even after Joyce died.[1]
Joyce became President of the
Joyce died in Wroxham in Norfolk in 1942.[1]
Works
- Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence; (1908)
- Women of All Nations: A Record of Their Characteristics, Habits, Manners, Customs, and Influence, Volume 2
- Women of All Nations: A Record of Their Characteristics, Habits, Manners, Customs, and Influence, Volume 4
- South American Archaeology (London: Lee Warner, 1912).
- Mexican Archaeology (London: Lee Warner, 1914).
- Central American and West Indian Archaeology (London: Lee Warner, 1916).
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Raymond John Howgego, "Joyce, Thomas Athol (1878–1942)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2010 accessed 1 December 2013
- ^ A Totem Pole in the British Museum, T. A. Joyce, The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 33, (Jan. – Jun. 1903), pp. 90–95, Retrieved 1 December 2013
- ^ a b Retirement of T A Joyce, Nature, 142, 146–146, 23 July 1938, doi:10.1038/142146a0, retrieved 1 December 2013
- ^ Joyce, Thomas Athol (1911). . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 19 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 344.
- ^ Report on the British Museum Expedition to British Honduras, 1927, T. A. Joyce, J. Cooper Clark and J. E. Thompson, Page 296 of 295–323
- ISBN 978-0813515724.
External links
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