Alfred Cort Haddon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alfred Cort Haddon

British anthropologist

Date of Birth: 24-May-1855

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 20-Apr-1940

Profession: zoologist, biologist, ethnologist, university teacher, anthropologist

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Alfred Cort Haddon, Sc.D., FRS, FRGS (24 May 1855 – 20 April 1940, Cambridge) was an influential British anthropologist and ethnologist. Initially a biologist, who achieved his most notable fieldwork, with W.H.R.
Rivers, C.G.
Seligman and Sidney Ray on the Torres Strait Islands.
He returned to Christ's College, Cambridge, where he had been an undergraduate, and effectively founded the School of Anthropology.
Haddon was a major influence on the work of the American ethnologist Caroline Furness Jayne.In 2011, Haddon's 1898 The Recordings of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits were added to the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia's Sounds of Australia registry.
The original recordings are housed at the British Library and many have been made available online.