William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology
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The William Wyse Professorship of Social Anthropology is a professorship in social anthropology
at the University of Cambridge
. It was founded on 18 June 1932 and endowed partly with the support of Trinity College
from money bequeathed to them by William Wyse
, formerly Fellow and Honorary Fellow of Trinity.
The professorship is assigned to the Faculty of Archaeology
and Anthropology
.
Social anthropology
Social Anthropology is one of the four or five branches of anthropology that studies how contemporary human beings behave in social groups. Practitioners of social anthropology investigate, often through long-term, intensive field studies , the social organization of a particular person: customs,...
at the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
. It was founded on 18 June 1932 and endowed partly with the support of Trinity College
Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 170 Fellows...
from money bequeathed to them by William Wyse
William Wyse
William Wyse was a classical scholar, noted for his work on the Attic orator Isaeus, and a benefactor of the University of Cambridge.-Life:...
, formerly Fellow and Honorary Fellow of Trinity.
The professorship is assigned to the Faculty of Archaeology
Archaeology
Archaeology, or archeology , is the study of human society, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data that they have left behind, which includes artifacts, architecture, biofacts and cultural landscapes...
and Anthropology
Anthropology
Anthropology is the study of humanity. It has origins in the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. The term "anthropology" is from the Greek anthrōpos , "man", understood to mean mankind or humanity, and -logia , "discourse" or "study", and was first used in 1501 by German...
.
List of William Wyse Professors of Social Anthropology
- 1932 - 1937 Thomas Callan HodsonThomas Callan HodsonThomas Callan Hodson was the first William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, where he was a Fellow of St Catharine's College, notable for his writings on Indian anthropology and for coining the term sociolinguistics.-1931 Census of India:In Analysis of the 1931...
- 1937 - 1950 John Henry Hutton
- 1950 - 1973 Meyer FortesMeyer FortesMeyer Fortes was a South African-born anthropologist, best known for his work among the Tallensi and Ashanti in Ghana.Originally trained in psychology, Fortes employed the notion of the "person" into his structural-functional analyses of kinship, the family, and ancestor worship setting a standard...
- 1973 - 1984 John Rankine GoodyJack GoodySir John Rankine Goody is a British social anthropologist. He has been a prominent teacher at Cambridge University, he was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1976, and he is an associate of the US National Academy of Sciences...
- 1984 - 1992 Ernest André Gellner
- 1993 - 2008 Marilyn StrathernMarilyn StrathernDame Ann Marilyn Strathern, DBE, FBA is a British anthropologist who was Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge from 1998 until her retirement in 2009...
- 2008 - Henrietta MooreHenrietta MooreHenrietta L. Moore is a British social anthropologist. She is the William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. Previously Moore was a Governor of the LSE; LSE Deputy Director for research and external relations 2002-2005, and served as the Director of the Gender...