Wilfrid Dyson Hambly

Wilfrid Dyson Hambly (born December 20, 1886 in Clayton, Yorkshire, † July 18, 1962 in Chicago ) was a British-American ethnologist and anthropologist specializing in black Africa .

He attended Hartley University College in Southampton and was initially a school teacher. He studied at Jesus College in Oxford (Diploma 1913, B.Sc. 1917). From 1919 to 1923 he worked on the Governmental Board of Industrial Research in England, from 1923 to 1926 at the Essex Museum of Natural History in London. In 1926 he became Assistant Curator for African Ethnology at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago .

His major works include his book on the tattoo and his book on dance and social development in tribal societies.

Fonts (selection)

• The History of tattooing and its significance: With some account of other forms of corporal marking. London: Witherby, 1925
• Tribal dancing and social development . London: Witherby, 1926
• Origins of education among primitive peoples. A comparative study in racial development . With a preface by Charles Hose . London: Macmillan, 1926
• The Flexibility of Methodology . In: American Anthropologist , New Series 31, 1929, pp. 816-819
• Berthold Laufer , Wilfrid D. Hambly, Ralph Linton : Tobacco and its Use in Africa . Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago 1930
• Culture areas of Nigeria . Chicago Field Museum of Natural History, Publication 346, Anthropology Series, Vol. XXI, No. 3rd 1935
• Primitive Hunters of Australia . (= Anthropology Leaflet 32). Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago 1936
• Source Book for African anthropology . 2 volumes. Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago 1937

literature

• Raymond Codrington: Wilfrid D. Hambly and Sub-Saharan Africa research at the Field Museum, 1928–1953 . In: S. Nash, F. Feinman (Eds.): Curators, Collectors and Contexts. Anthropology at the Field Museum, 1893-2002 (= Fieldiana: Anthropology, NS 36). Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago 2003, pp. 153-164.

Web links

• Stabi Berlin