Guide to the Papers of Alfred C. Haddon (as filmed by the AJCP), c.1880-1940

Summary

Collection number:

M2728-M2759

Creator:

Haddon, Alfred Cort

Extent:

437 items

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the Cambridge University Library and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: M Series: Notes, photographs, drawings, correspondence re pottery in New Guinea, 1916-1935, Cambridge University Library (AJCP ref: https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-765713357)

Availability:

Available

Access conditions:

Available for reference.

Background

Content Summary:

Personal papers and correspondence 1880-1935 mainly referring to ethnography and anthropological field work in Torres Strait and New Guinea. Correspondents include R.F. Fortune, Bronislaw Malinowski, E.W.P. Chinnery, Gregory Bateson, W. Baldwin Spencer, Daisy Bates, Camilla Wedgwood, A.R. Radcliffe-Brown and L. Dudley Buxton.

Papers relating to Haddon's first (1888-1889) and second (1898-1899) expeditions to Torres Strait. Correspondents include J.S. Bruce, Robert Bruce, Charles Myers, Rev. James Chalmers and Charles Hose.

Papers 1892-1938 relating to the New Guinea people and their customs. Correspondents include T. Reeves Palmer and C.G. Seligman.

Publications, lecture notes and miscellaneous notes, and off-prints of publications by others.

Biographical / Historical:

1-1912) and Canoes of Oceania (1936-1938).

Alfred Cort Haddon (1855-1940) inherited from his mother a love of natural history, and in 1878 he obtained a first class in the natural science tripos from Cambridge University. In 1880 he was appointed Professor of Zoology at the Royal College of Sciences, and Assistant Naturalist to the Science and Art Museum in Dublin. It was in Ireland he developed an interest in ethnology. In 1888-1889 he made his first visit to the Torres Straits to study marine biology, but also to record the life of the people before contact with Europeans extinguished native customs. On his return he also accepted a part-time lectureship at Cambridge University in physical anthropology. In 1898-1899 he led the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Straits. In 1900 he was appointed University lecturer in ethnology in Cambridge, and in 1901 was elected to a fellowship at Christ's College. He attended the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Australia in 1914, and re-visited the Torres Straits in the company of his daughter, Kathleen. On his return to England he continued to work at his Torres Straits Reports and organised his South Seas collections at the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. The Report of the Cambridge Anthropology Expedition to Torres Straits were published between 1901-1912, and the final volume (no. 1) appeared in 1935. He co-wrote with James Hornell Canoes of Oceania (1936-1938), and his study of cultural diffusion Smoking and Tobacco Pipes in New Guinea was published posthumously in 1946.

Related

Existence and Location of Copies:

The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn17665] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.

Existence and Location of Originals:

Cambridge University Library. West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR, England.

For further information, see Alfred C. Haddon at Cambridge University Library (https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/manuscripts-university-archives/significant-archival-collections/haddon).

Conditions Governing Access:

Available for Access.

Conditions Governing Use:

Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the Cambridge University Library .

Preferred citation:

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the Cambridge University Library and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: M Series: Notes, photographs, drawings, correspondence re pottery in New Guinea, 1916-1935, Cambridge University Library (AJCP ref: https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-765713357)

Location of this collection:

National Library of Australia

Parkes Place

Canberra ACT 2600, Australia

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