Jack Herbert Driberg

Jack Herbert Driberg (born April 1888 ; died February 5, 1946 ) was a British anthropologist . His book Lango (1923) about a Nilotic tribe in Uganda is considered an ethnographic classic.

biography

Jack Herbert Driberg was born in 1888. He attended Lancing College and Hertford College , Oxford . From 1912 he worked as a colonial clerk for the British colonial authorities in the British protectorate of Uganda . He then went to the Egyptian Sudan , where he lived until 1925. About his stay in Uganda he wrote a book entitled The Lango : A Nilotic Tribe of Uganda , in which he deals with the Lango people in northern Uganda . The book earned him recognition as an anthropologist. After returning to England, he attended the London School of Economics . He then began to work as a professor at the University of Cambridge . He also served in World War II . He died in 1946.

Publications

• The Lango: A Nilotic Tribe of Uganda . Fisher Unwin LTD., London, 1923. Digitized
• Didinga customary law . Sudan Notes and Records . 1927. VIII.
• The Savage as He Really is . London: G. Routledge & Sons (1929).
• People of the Small Arrow . Charlottesville: University of Virginia (1930).
• The East African problem . 1930
• At home with the savage . 1932
• Engato the lion cub . 1933
• The secular aspect of ancestor worship in Africa . 1936 Supplement to the Journal of the Royal African Society , XXXV

See also

• Sudan Notes and Records (English)

literature

• EB Haddon: Mr. JH Driberg . In: Nature . tape 157 , 1946, pp. 257 f ., doi : 10.1038 / 157257b0 (English).
• Nancy J. Schmidt: Jack H. Driberg: A Humanistic Anthropologist before His Time . In: Anthropologica . tape 31 , no. 2 , 1989, pp. 179-194 , doi : 10.2307 / 25605541 (English).

References and footnotes

1. ↑ The Lango: A Nilotic Tribe of Uganda . World Digital Library . Retrieved March 26, 2019.
2. ↑ ^{a b} E. B. Haddon: Mr. JH Driberg . In: Nature . tape 157 , 1946, pp. 257 f ., doi : 10.1038 / 157257b0 (English).