SELIGMAN, CHARLES GABRIEL
- SELIGMAN, CHARLES GABRIEL
- 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. He became
professionally interested in anthropology as a result of his
participation as a medical researcher in the Cambridge Torres Straits
Expedition. In 1903 he persuaded Major Cooke Daniels, a wealthy
American, to finance an expedition to New Guinea. This research
culminated in his work The Melanesians of British New Guinea
(1910). Seligman served as lecturer and subsequently as professor,
holding the first chair of anthropology established at the University of
London. His wife, BRENDA ZARA SALAMAN SELIGMAN
(1883–1965), became his professional collaborator and was also an
important anthropologist. Together the Seligmans undertook a number of
other expeditions, to Ceylon to study the Veddahs and to the Sudan. In
between the field sorties, Seligman continued his research in pathology;
he was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and a member
of the Royal Society. During World War I he served as a
medical officer and worked in a psychoneurotic hospital where he saw the
clinical value of Freudian psychoanalysis, which he later applied to
anthropology. In his fieldwork Seligman regarded himself as a natural
historian of ethnology, studying living societies with scientific
detachment. He rejected the extreme diffusionist theories and
investigated carefully the diffusion and transmission of culture traits.
Seligman's research prepared the way for Bronislaw Malinowski's
fieldwork in Melanesia.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
E.E. Evans-Pritchard et al. (eds.), Essays presented to C.G.
Seligman (1934), 381–5. ADD.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: ODNB online.
(Ephraim Fischoff)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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