Phyllis M. Kaberry

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Phyllis Kaberry, 1946

Phyllis Mary Kaberry (born September 17, 1910 in San Francisco , † October 31, 1977 in Camden , London) was an American anthropologist who worked in Australia and England.

Career

She received her PhD from the University of Sydney on cultural contact in Melanesia and did research in Australia and Africa. She published in Oceania magazine when it was founded. From 1965 to 1968 she was Vice President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland .

Her work on Aboriginal women is considered an anthropological classic .

She was friends with Sally Chilver .

Works

  • Culture contact in Melanesia . MA thesis University of Sydney 1935.
  • Aboriginal woman: sacred and profane London, Routledge 1939.
  • British colonial policy in Southeast Asia and the development of self-government in Malaya . London 1944. New York 1945.
  • Women of the Grassfields. A study of the economic position of women in Bamenda, British Cameroons . London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1952.
  • (Ed.) Bronislaw Malinowski : The dynamics of culture change. An inquiry into race relations in Africa . Edited by Phyllis M. Kaberry. New Haven, Yale University Press; London, Oxford University Press 1945.
    • The dynamics of cultural change . Introduced v. Phyllis M. Kaberry. Vienna-Stuttgart, Humboldt 1951.
  • with EM Chilver: Tang Mbo or Tabeken (1963).
  • with Daryll Forde : West African Kingdoms in the Nineteenth Century . New York 1967.
  • with Mary Douglas (ed.): Man in Africa . London, Tavistock 1969.

literature

  • Shirley Ardener: Persons and powers of women in diverse cultures. Essays in commemoration of Audrey I. Richards, Phyllis Kaberry, and Barbara E. Ward. New York, Berg 1992.
  • Sandy Toussaint: Phyllis Kaberry and me: anthropology, history and aboriginal Australia. Carlton South, Victoria, Melbourne University Press 1999.

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personal data
SURNAME Kaberry, Phyllis M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kaberry, Phyllis Mary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1977
Place of death Camden , London