John Roscoe

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Armed Buganda Warriors, 1911, by John Roscoe

John Roscoe (born October 25, 1861 , † December 2, 1932 ) was a British African explorer, ethnologist and missionary who was in lively spiritual exchange with James Frazer , worked as a missionary in East Africa for 25 years and in 1919/1920 the one after the financier Sir Peter Mackie named "Mackie Ethnological Expedition to Central Africa" ​​led.

James Frazer wrote on February 5, 1908 from Trinity College in Cambridge to his friend Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer in Australia : “Also I wish if possible to relieve J. Roscoe of his mission work in Central Africa, and set him free there entirely for anthropology. We should learn very much from him. I know no keener anthropologist than he. "

Fonts

  • The Baganda: An Account of Their Native Customs and Beliefs. Macmillan, London 1911. Digitized
  • The Northern Bantu: an account of some central African tribes of the Uganda Protectorate. Cambridge 1915
  • Twenty-five Years in East Africa. University Press, Cambridge 1921.
  • The Soul of Central Africa. A general account of the Mackie ethnological expedition. New York et al. a. 1922.
  • Report of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition to Central Africa. University Press, Cambridge.
    • Volume 1: The Bakitara or Banyoro. 1923.
    • Volume 2: The Banyankole. 1923.
    • Volume 3: The Bagesu. 1924.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ RR Marett, TK Penniman (Ed.): Spencer's Scientific Correspondence with Sir JG Frazer and others. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1932, p. 107.
personal data
SURNAME Roscoe, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British African explorer, ethnologist and missionary
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1861
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 1932