Charles gabriel seligman biography of mahatma
Races of Africa by Charles Gabriel Seligman | Open Library.
Charles gabriel seligman biography of mahatma
Charles Gabriel Seligman
British physician and ethnologist (–)
Charles Gabriel Seligman | |
|---|---|
| Born | Charles Gabriel Seligmann 24 December London, England |
| Died | 19 September Oxford, England |
| Citizenship | British |
| Almamater | St Thomas' Hospital |
| Knownfor | Races of Africa () |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Anthropology, history |
Charles Gabriel SeligmanFRS[1]FRAI (né Seligmann; 24 December – 19 September ) 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. He was a professor at London School of Economics and was influential to prominent anthropologists, such as Bronisław Malinowski, E.
E. Evans-Pritchard, and Meyer Fortes.[2]
Seligman was an advocate and published literature for the Hamitic hypothesis, stating the Cushitic, Berber, and Egyptians were thought to have linage with the speculated, and later debunked, C