Charles Gabriel Seligman
Charles Gabriel Seligman FRS 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.
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. His work in the 1920s and 1930s is now seen as "white supremacist".
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