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  1. Charles Gabriel Seligman FRS FRAI (né Seligmann; 24 December 1873 – 19 September 1940) was a British physician and ethnologist. His main ethnographic work described the culture of the Vedda people of Sri Lanka and the Shilluk people of the Sudan.

  2. Apr 8, 2024 · C.G. Seligman (born Dec. 24, 1873, London, Eng.—died Sept. 19, 1940, Oxford) was a pioneer in British anthropology who conducted significant field research in Melanesia, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), and, most importantly, the Nilotic Sudan.

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  3. Charles Gabriel Seligman (December 24, 1873 – September 19, 1940) was a British pioneer of ethnography. He conducted significant field research in Melanesia, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka ), and the Nilotic Sudan.

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  5. Dec 24, 2022 · Seligman ‘s main ethnographic work described the culture of the Vedda people of Sri Lanka and the Shilluk people of the Sudan. He was a proponent of the Hamitic hypothesis, according to which, some civilizations of Africa were thought to have been founded by Caucasoid Hamitic peoples. Charles Gabriel Seligman – Background

  6. Charles Gabriel Seligman (1873–1940) was one of that remarkable group of young biological scientists (among them, W. H. R. Rivers, C. S. Myers, and William McDougall) who, under A. C. Haddon’s inspiration, established scientific field work as the basis of professional anthropology in Great Britain during the first quarter of the twentieth century.

  7. Anthropologist, teacher, collector. Charles Gabriel Seligman (1873-1940) is one of the pioneers of modern anthropology. He began his career in medicine, branching to physical anthropology and eventually discovering his vocation in cultural anthropology to which he made a significant contribution.

  8. Religion. Encyclopedias almanacs transcripts and maps. Seligman, Charles Gabriel. views 2,700,788 updated. SELIGMAN, CHARLES GABRIEL (1873–1940), British physician and anthropologist. Born in London and educated at St. Paul 's school, Seligman trained as a physician oriented to medical research.

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