FIELD, Henry. Chicago 15.12.1902 — Coral Gables, Florida 4.1.1986.U.S. Anthropologist. His parents divorced soon and his mother, Minna Field, married an Englishman, Algernon Burnaby, and they moved to Leicestershire. Educated at Sunningdale and Eton. Studies at Oxford: B.A. 1925, M.A. 1930, Ph.D. 1937. In 1926 returned to Chicago and worked in Field Museum as Assistant Curator of Physical Anthropology, from 1934 Head Curator. During and after WW II served in Special Intelligence Unit of the White House. In 1950-69 Fellow in Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard. In the 1960s moved to Florida and from 1966 taught at University of Miami. Fieldwork in Iraq, after WW II in Africa and Pakistan. Three times married, two daughters.
Publications: Contributions to the Anthropology of Iran. 1-2. Chicago 1939.
– The Track of Man. N.Y. 1952 (autobiography).
– An Anthropological Reconnaissance in West Pakistan, 1955. 12+332 p. 144 fig. 5 maps. Cambridge, MA 1959 (in Baluchistan and Bahawalpur).
– Several further works.
Sources: Wikipedia.
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