Charles Gabriel Seligman
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Charles Gabriel Seligman (1873-1940) was a British ethnologist. Born in London, Seligman studied medicine at St. Thomas' Hospital.
After several years as a physician, Seligman joined an 1898 Cambridge expedition to the Torres Strait. The expedition was followed by more to New Guinea (1904), Ceylon (1906-1908), and Sudan (1909-1912, again in 1921-1922). In 1905 he married Brenda Zara Seligman, who would accompany him on many of his expeditions and who he relied on significantly, crediting her greatly in his publications.
He served as chair of Ethnology at the University of London from 1913 to 1934.
[edit] Selected works
- Melanesians of British New Guinea (1910)
- The Veddas (1911)
- Races of Africa (1930)
- The Pagan Tribes of Nilotic Sudan (1932)
