Year: 1989
Type: article
Abstract: Jack H. Driberg (1888-1946), a British social anthropologist who wrote a classical ethnography on the Lango before receiving formal anthropological training, spent over a dozen years doing field work in Africa. He was both an atypical colonial administrator who was able to understand and convey to others Africans' views and an extraordinary anthropologist for his time and place who raised issues in anthropology which have come to the fore only in recent years, primarily in American humanistic anthropology. This essay reassesses Driberg's contributions to humanistic anthropology focusing on his writing in "non-scientific" genres.
Source: Anthropologica
DOI: 10.2307/25605541
Author: Nancy J. Schmidt
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2610244206