PEAKE, Harold John Edward. Ellesmere, Shropshire 29.9.1867 — 22.9.1946. British lay Anthropologist and Archaeologist. Son of Rev. John Peake, Vicar of Ellesmere, and his wife Matilda. M.A. Trained in estate management at Leicester. With his wife went around the world and stayed some time in a ranch in British Columbia. Then back…
OLIVIER, Georges. Paris 6.9.1912 — 13.3.1996. French Anthropologist. De.méd. 1938 Paris. Dr.-es-sc. 1955 Paris. From 1953 Professeur agrégé d’anatomie at Lille, from 1963 Prof. agr. d’anthropologie in Paris. In 1969 founded the Laboratory of Biological Anthropoligy (Faculté de sciences, Paris). Retired 1978. Publications: Diss. Les populations de Cambodge. P. 1955. – Anthropologie des…
MOSZKOWSKI, Max. Breslau 12.8.1873 — Rio de Janeiro 1939. German Physician, Anthropologist and Collector. M.D. 1899 Breslau. In 1907 in Ceylon, Sumatra and western New Guinea, collected botanical and zoological specimens, measured skulls and studied tropical diseases. Worked as physician in Berlin. Publications: “Among the last Vẹddas”, JRAS-CB21:61, 1908, 59-68. –…
MORRIS, John. 1895 — 13.12.1980. British Colonial Officer and Social Anthropologist in India. Served in army in 1915-34, after WW I in India. Retired as Major. From 1938 Professor of English Literature at Keio University and Lecturer at Imperial and Bunrika Universities in Tokyo. In 1943-52 head of the Far…
MORÉCHAND, Guy. Paris 1923 — 2002. French Anthropologist. Licencié ès lettres 1948 in Anthropology. Ph.D. 1966 Paris. From 1950 member of É.F.É.O. in Hanoi, 1957-63 in Japan, later in Paris and Pondicherry. Retired 1980. Publications: Diss. Le chamanisme des Hmong. 1965; mainly wrote on Vietnam and Japan. – “Paul Mus (1902-1969)”, BEFEO 57,…
MINTURN, Ann Leigh. Chicago 1.7.1928 — 31.10.1999. U.S. Cross-Cultural Scholar. Daughter of Harold D. Minturn and Emma Hamsher. Graduated 1949 from Mount Holyoke College. M.A. 1952 and Ph.D. 1954 Radcliffe College, in Social Psychology. From 1954 Research Associate at Cornell University, 1958-67 at University of Illinois. Then taught at University of…
MEINHARD, Heinrich. 1900 — 1975. German Anthropologist and former Student of Indology in the U.K. Ph.D. 1928 Bonn under Kirfel, but then turned to anthropology. Curator in Berlin Ethnographic Museum. To save his Jewish wife he escaped to the U.K. and worked in Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford in 1938-47…
LOBSIGER-DELLENBACH, Marguerite (née M. D.). Geneva 9.7.1905 — Onex, Geneva 1993. Swiss Anthropologist and Ethnomusicologist. From 1922 secretary of Eugène Pittard. From 1947 Vice-Director and in 1952-63 Director of Musée d’ethnographie in Geneva (Pittard’ successor). Fieldwork in Nepal in 1952. Married 1936 George Lobsiger. Publications: Népal: Catalogue de la Collection d’Ethnographie Népalaise…
LEACH, Edmund Ronald. Sidmouth, Devon 10.11.1910 — Cambridge 6.1.1989. Sir. British Anthropologist. Son of William Edmund Leach and Mildred Brierley, educated at Marlborough College. Studies at Cambridge (Clare College). B.A. 1932, then four year in China serving a British business company. A visit to the Austronesian Tao (Yami) people of…
KUNIKE, Hugo. Hamburg 2.3.1887 — 1945/49. German Anthropologist. Son of a merchant, gymnasium in Wandsbek. Studies of ethnology, philosophy and comparative linguistics at Berlin. Ph.D. 1912 Leipzig. In 1909-19 worked as wissenschaftlicher Hilfsarbeiter in Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin, then private scholar in Berlin. Publications: Diss. Couvade oder das sogenannte Männerkindbett. Halle…