Camilla Wedgwood

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Camilla Hildegarde Wedgwood (born March 25, 1901 in Barlaston , † May 17, 1955 in St. Leonards ) was a British anthropologist who researched the ethnic groups of the Pacific region.

Life

Wedgwood's father was the entrepreneur and politician Josiah Wedgwood , who was later raised to the nobility. Her mother, Ethel Bowen Wedgwood, was the daughter of Lord Justice of Appeal Charles Bowen . Her parents separated in 1914 and divorced five years later.

Wedgwood attended the Orme Girls' School in Newcastle-under-Lyme and then studied English at Bedford College and anthropology with Alfred Cort Haddon at Newnham College , Cambridge . She took all of the exams for a master’s degree but was unable to get a degree because the college did not offer degrees for women until 1948. Briefly she taught anthropology in Bedford and then followed in 1928 a call to the newly founded department of anthropology at Sydney University . There she took care of the publication of the manuscript Malekula: A Vanishing People in the New Hebrides of her predecessor Arthur Bernard Deacon , who had died in 1927. She also taught at the University of Cape Town before returning to England in 1931 to become Bronisław Malinowski's assistant at the London School of Economics .

Wedgwood became a member in 1924 and was a board member of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland in 1931/32 . In 1932 she received a grant from the Australian Research Council for a field research trip to the island of Manam on the north coast of Papua New Guinea . She then took care of the foundations for education policy for the then mandate area of Nauru and in June 1935 became rector of the new Women's College at the University of Sydney .

During the Second World War she worked as a nurse in the Australian Army and was involved in the formulation of a strategic plan for education and administration in Papua New Guinea . After the war, Wedgwood worked at the Australian School of Pacific Administration , training Australian officers and administrators for colonial service. In 1947/48 she briefly taught at the Institute for Education at the University of London .

Camilla Wedgwood died in 1955 of complications from cancer at the Royal North Shore Hospital in St. Leonards, a suburb of Sydney.

Fonts (selection)

  • Death and social status in Melanesia . Royal Anthropological Society of Great Britain, London 1927
  • Circular letter Panyam . Adam Matthew Publications, 1928
  • Notes on the Marshall Islands . In: Oceania , Vol. 13, No. 1, 1942
  • with Pamela Lindsay: The Hiri . Longmans Green, London / New York 1955
  • The nature and functions of secret societies . Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis

literature

  • AP Elkin: Camilla Hildegarde Wedgwood: 1901–1955 . In: Oceania , Vol. 26, No. 3 (March 1956), pp. 174-180
  • Richard Seddon: The second Camilla Wedgwood memorial lecture and seminar . Govt. Printer, Port Moresby 1961
  • Nancy Lutkehaus: She was Very Cambridge: Camilla Wedgwood and the History of Women in British Anthropology . In: American Ethnologist , Vol. 13, No. 4, 1986, pp. 776-798
  • D. Wetherell, C. Carr-Gregg: Camilla: CH Wedgwood 1901-1955, a Life . New South Wales University Press, Kensington 1990
  • Ute Gacs: Camilla Hildegarde Wedgwood (1901–1955) . In: Ute Gacs et al. (Ed.): Women Anthropologists: Selected Biographies . University of Illinois Press, 1988, pp. 367-371

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c David Wetherell: Wedgwood, Camilla Hildegarde (1901–1955) , Australian Dictionary of Biography, accessed February 22, 2017
  2. ↑ digitized version
personal data
SURNAME Wedgwood, Camilla
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wedgwood, Camilla Hildegarde (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Barlaston
DATE OF DEATH 17th May 1955
Place of death St. Leonards