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British anthropologist (1855–1940)

Alfred Cort Haddon Haddon by Philip de László, 1925 Born 24 May 1855 (1855-05-24) London, England Died 20 April 1940(1940-04-20) (aged 84) London, England Alma mater Christ's College, Cambridge Spouse Fanny Elizabeth Rose ​ ​ (m. 1881; died 1937)​ Children 3, including Kathleen Scientific career Fields Anthropology

**Alfred Cort Haddon** [FRS](/source/Royal_Society#Fellows)[1] [FRGS](/source/FRGS) [FRAI](/source/Royal_Anthropological_Institute_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland) (24 May 1855 – 20 April 1940) was an influential British anthropologist and ethnologist. Initially a [biologist](/source/Biologist), who achieved his most notable fieldwork with [W. H. R. Rivers](/source/W._H._R._Rivers), [Charles Gabriel Seligman](/source/Charles_Gabriel_Seligman) and [Sidney Ray](/source/Sidney_Herbert_Ray) on the [Torres Strait Islands](/source/Torres_Strait_Islands). He returned to [Christ's College, Cambridge](/source/Christ's_College%2C_Cambridge), where he had been an undergraduate, and effectively founded the School of [Anthropology](/source/Anthropology). Haddon was a major influence on the work of the American [ethnologist](/source/Ethnologist) [Caroline Furness Jayne](/source/Caroline_Furness_Jayne).[2]

In 2011, Haddon's 1898 *The Recordings of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits* were added to the [National Film and Sound Archive](/source/National_Film_and_Sound_Archive) of Australia's [Sounds of Australia](/source/Sounds_of_Australia) registry.[3] The original recordings are housed at the [British Library](/source/British_Library)[4] and many have been made available online.[5]

## Early life

Alfred Cort Haddon was born on 24 May 1855, near London, the elder son of John Haddon, the head of John Haddon & Co, a firm of printers and typefounders established in 1814. He attended lectures at [King's College London](/source/King's_College_London) and taught zoology and geology at a girls' school in [Dover](/source/Dover), before entering [Christ's College, Cambridge](/source/Christ's_College%2C_Cambridge) in 1875.[6]

At Cambridge, he studied zoology and became the friend of [John Holland Rose](/source/John_Holland_Rose) (afterwards Harmsworth Professor of Naval History), whose sister he married in 1881. Shortly after achieving his [Master of Arts](/source/Master_of_Arts_(Oxford%2C_Cambridge%2C_and_Dublin)) degree, he was appointed as Demonstrator in Zoology at Cambridge in 1879. For a time he studied [marine biology](/source/Marine_biology) in [Naples](/source/Naples).[7]

## Career

### Dublin

In 1880, he was appointed Professor of Zoology at the [College of Science](/source/Royal_College_of_Science_for_Ireland) in [Dublin](/source/Dublin). While there he founded the Dublin Field Club in 1885.[8] His first publications were an *Introduction to the Study of Embryology* in 1887, and various papers on [marine biology](/source/Marine_biology), which led to his expedition to the Torres Strait Islands to study [coral reefs](/source/Coral_reef) and [marine zoology](/source/Marine_zoology), and while thus engaged he first became attracted to anthropology.[9]

### Torres Strait Expedition

Main article: [Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits](/source/Cambridge_Anthropological_Expedition_to_Torres_Straits)

On his return home, he published many papers dealing with the indigenous people, urging the importance of securing all possible information about these and kindred peoples before they were overwhelmed by civilisation. He advocated this in Cambridge, encouraged thereto by [Thomas Henry Huxley](/source/Thomas_Henry_Huxley), where he came to give lectures at the Anatomy School from 1894 to 1898.[1] Eventually, funds were raised to equip an expedition to the Torres Straits Islands to make a scientific study of the people, and Haddon was asked to assume the leadership.[7]

To assist him he succeeded in obtaining the help of Dr [W. H. R. Rivers](/source/W._H._R._Rivers), and in later years he used to say that he counted it his chief claim to fame that he had diverted Dr. Rivers from psychology to anthropology.[10]

In April 1898, the expedition arrived at its field of work and spent over a year in the [Torres Strait Islands](/source/Torres_Strait_Islands), and [Borneo](/source/Borneo), and brought home a large collection of ethnographical specimens, some of which are now in the [British Museum](/source/British_Museum), but the bulk of them form one of the glories of the [Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge](/source/Museum_of_Archaeology_and_Anthropology%2C_University_of_Cambridge). The University of Cambridge later passed the wax cylinder recordings to the [British Library](/source/British_Library). The main results of the expedition are published in *The Reports of the Cambridge Expedition to Torres Straits*.[7]

Haddon was convinced that the art objects collected would otherwise have been destroyed by Christian [missionaries](/source/Missionaries) determined to eradicate the religious traditions and ceremonies of the native islanders. He also filmed ceremonial dances. The findings were published in his 1901 book *Head-hunters, Black, White and Brown.*[11][12]

Similar anthropological work, the recording of myths and legends from the Torres Strait Islands was coordinated by [Margaret Lawrie](/source/Margaret_Lawrie) during 1960–72. Her collection complements Haddon's work and can be found at the [State Library of Queensland](/source/State_Library_of_Queensland)[13]

In 1897, Haddon had obtained his Sc.D. degree in recognition of the work he had already done, some of which he had incorporated in his *Decorative art of New Guinea*, a large monograph published as one of the Cunningham Memoirs in 1894, and on his return home from his second expedition he was elected a fellow of his college (junior fellow in 1901, senior fellow in 1904).[1]

He was appointed lecturer in ethnology in the University of Cambridge in 1900, and reader in 1909, a post from which he retired in 1926. He was appointed advisory curator to the Horniman Museum in London in 1901. Haddon paid a third visit to [New Guinea](/source/New_Guinea) in 1914 returned during the [First World War](/source/First_World_War).[1]

Accompanied by his daughter [Kathleen Haddon](/source/Kathleen_Haddon) (1888–1961), a zoologist, photographer and scholar of string-figures,[14] the Haddons travelled along the Papuan coast from Daru to Aroma. While less discussed then his earlier work in the Torres Straits, this trip was influential in helping shape Haddon's later work on the distribution of material culture across New Guinea.[15][16]

The war effort had largely destroyed the study of anthropology at the university, however, and Haddon went to France to work for the [Y.M.C.A.](/source/Y.M.C.A.) After the war, he renewed his constant struggle to establish a sound School of Anthropology in Cambridge.[7]

### Retirement

On his retirement Haddon was made honorary keeper of the rich collections from New Guinea which the Cambridge Museum possesses, and also wrote up the remaining parts of the Torres Straits Reports, which his busy teaching and administrative life had forced him to set aside. His help and counsel to younger men was then still more freely at their service, and as always he continually laid aside his own work to help them with theirs.[7]

Haddon was president of Section H (Anthropology) in the [British Association](/source/British_Association) meetings of 1902 and 1905. He was president of the [Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland](/source/Royal_Anthropological_Institute_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland), of the Folk Lore Society, and of the [Cambridge Antiquarian Society](/source/Cambridge_Antiquarian_Society) was elected a Fellow of the [Royal Society](/source/Royal_Society);[1] received from the R.A.I. the Huxley Medal in 1920; and was the first recipient of the Rivers Medal in 1924.

He was the first to recognise the ethnological importance of [string figures](/source/String_figure) and tricks, known in England as "cats' cradles", but found all over the world as a pastime among native peoples. He and Rivers invented a nomenclature and method of describing the process of making the different figures, and one of his daughters, [Kathleen Rishbeth](/source/Kathleen_Rishbeth), became an expert authority on the subject.[7]

His main publications, besides those already mentioned, were: *Evolution in Art* (1895), *The Study of Man* (1898), *Head-hunters, Black, White and Brown* (1901), *The Races of Man* (1909; second, entirely rewritten, ed. 1924), and *The Wanderings of People* (1911). He contributed to the *[Encyclopædia Britannica](/source/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica)*, *[Dictionary of National Biography](/source/Dictionary_of_National_Biography)*, and several articles to [Hastings](/source/James_Hastings)'s *[Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics](/source/Encyclopaedia_of_Religion_and_Ethics)*. A bibliography of his writings and papers runs to over 200 entries, even without his book reviews.[7]

Though subsequently sidelined by [Bronisław Malinowski](/source/Bronis%C5%82aw_Malinowski), and the new paradigm of [functionalism](/source/Structural_functionalism) within anthropology, Haddon's work helped to support various anthropologists conducting then nascent fieldwork: [A. R. Brown](/source/Alfred_Radcliffe-Brown) in the [Andaman Islands](/source/Andaman_Islands) (1906–08), [Gunnar Landtman](/source/Gunnar_Landtman) on Kiwai in now [Papua New Guinea](/source/Papua_New_Guinea) (1910–12),[17] [Diamond Jenness](/source/Diamond_Jenness) (1911–12), R. R. Marrett's student at the [University of Oxford](/source/University_of_Oxford),[18] as well as [John Layard](/source/John_Layard) on [Malakula](/source/Malakula), [Vanuatu](/source/Vanuatu) (1914–15),[19] and to have [Bronisław Malinowski](/source/Bronis%C5%82aw_Malinowski) stationed in Mailu and later the Trobriand Islands during [World War 1](/source/World_War_I).[20] Haddon actively gave advice to missionaries, government officers, traders and anthropologists; in return, collecting information about New Guinea and elsewhere.[21]

Haddon's photographic archive and artefact collections can be found in the Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology in Cambridge University, while his papers are in the Cambridge University's Library's Special Collections.[22]

## Family

Haddon's wife, Fanny Elizabeth Haddon ([née](/source/Birth_name#Maiden_and_married_names) Rose), died in 1937, leaving a son and two daughters.[7] Haddon's daughter [Kathleen](/source/Kathleen_Rishbeth) was a [zoologist](/source/Zoologist), [photographer](/source/Photographer), and scholar of [string-figures](/source/String_figure). She accompanied her father on a journey along the coast of [New Guinea](/source/New_Guinea) during his [Torres Straits](/source/Torres_Strait) Expedition. She married [O. H. T. Rishbeth](/source/Oswald_Rishbeth) in 1917.[23]

## Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Straits

- *Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Straits*. Cambridge University Press. [LCCN](/source/LCCN_(identifier)) [36006535](https://lccn.loc.gov/36006535). (6 volumes published from 1901 to 1935) - *Volume I. General Ethnography*.[24] - [*Volume II. Physiology and Psychology*](https://archive.org/details/reportsofcambrid02hadd/page/n5/mode/2up). 1901. - Haddon, A. C.; Ray, Sidney H. (17 February 2011). [*Volume III. Linguistics*](https://books.google.com/books?id=0blDel5aCmUC). Cambridge University Press. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780521179874](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780521179874). - *Volume IV. Arts and Crafts*.[25] - [*Volume V. Sociology, Magic and Religion of the Western Islanders*](https://archive.org/details/reports190405cambuoft). Cambridge, University Press. - Haddon, Alfred Cort (1908). [*Volume VI. Sociology, Magic and Religion of the Eastern Islanders*](https://books.google.com/books?id=JpiBAAAAMAAJ).

## See also

- [Torres Strait Islander](/source/Torres_Strait_Islander)

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## Bibliography

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- Haddon, A.C. (1913), ["An Ascent of the Snow Mountains of New Guinea"](https://zenodo.org/record/1448115), *[Science](/source/Science_(journal))*, vol. 38, no. 967 (published 11 July 1913), pp. 44–45, [Bibcode](/source/Bibcode_(identifier)):[1913Sci....38...44H](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1913Sci....38...44H), [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1126/science.38.967.44](https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.38.967.44), [PMID](/source/PMID_(identifier)) [17830209](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17830209)

- Haddon, A.C. (1913), ["Eoanthropus Dawsoni"](https://zenodo.org/record/1448104), *[Science](/source/Science_(journal))*, vol. 37, no. 942 (published 17 January 1913), pp. 91–92, [Bibcode](/source/Bibcode_(identifier)):[1913Sci....37...91H](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1913Sci....37...91H), [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1126/science.37.942.91](https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.37.942.91), [PMID](/source/PMID_(identifier)) [17745373](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17745373)

- Haddon, A.C. (1911), ["The First Universal Races Congress"](https://zenodo.org/record/1448068), *[Science](/source/Science_(journal))*, vol. 34, no. 871 (published 8 September 1911), pp. 304–306, [Bibcode](/source/Bibcode_(identifier)):[1911Sci....34..304H](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1911Sci....34..304H), [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1126/science.34.871.304](https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.34.871.304), [PMID](/source/PMID_(identifier)) [17807463](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17807463), [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [10752946](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:10752946)

- Haddon, A.C. (1906), ["Anthropology at the South African Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1905"](https://zenodo.org/record/1447952), *[Science](/source/Science_(journal))*, vol. 23, no. 587 (published 30 March 1906), pp. 491–497, [Bibcode](/source/Bibcode_(identifier)):[1906Sci....23..491H](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1906Sci....23..491H), [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1126/science.23.587.491](https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.23.587.491), [PMID](/source/PMID_(identifier)) [17789698](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17789698)

- Haddon, A.C. (1902), ["Leland Stanford Junior University. A Suggestion"](https://zenodo.org/record/1447860), *[Science](/source/Science_(journal))*, vol. 16, no. 397 (published 8 August 1902), pp. 231–232, [Bibcode](/source/Bibcode_(identifier)):[1902Sci....16..231H](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1902Sci....16..231H), [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1126/science.16.397.231](https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.16.397.231), [PMID](/source/PMID_(identifier)) [17819370](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17819370)

- Haddon, A.C. (1901), ["Permanent Skin Decoration"](https://zenodo.org/record/1447852), *[Science](/source/Science_(journal))*, vol. 14, no. 362 (published 6 December 1901), p. 897, [Bibcode](/source/Bibcode_(identifier)):[1901Sci....14..897H](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1901Sci....14..897H), [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1126/science.14.362.897](https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.14.362.897), [PMID](/source/PMID_(identifier)) [17835798](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17835798), [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [35490476](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:35490476)

- Haddon, Alfred C. (1901), *Head-hunters Black, White, and Brown*

- Haddon, A.C. (1897), ["Professor Flinders Petrie's Scheme of an Ethnological Store-House"](https://zenodo.org/record/1448287), *[Science](/source/Science_(journal))*, vol. 6, no. 146 (published 15 October 1897), pp. 565–567, [Bibcode](/source/Bibcode_(identifier)):[1897Sci.....6..565H](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1897Sci.....6..565H), [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1126/science.6.146.565](https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.6.146.565), [PMID](/source/PMID_(identifier)) [17801154](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17801154)

- Haddon, A.C. (1896), ["Section H. Anthropology"](https://zenodo.org/record/1448225), *[Science](/source/Science_(journal))*, vol. 4, no. 96 (published 30 October 1896), pp. 637–640, [Bibcode](/source/Bibcode_(identifier)):[1896Sci.....4..637H](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1896Sci.....4..637H), [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1126/science.4.96.637](https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.4.96.637), [PMID](/source/PMID_(identifier)) [17754005](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17754005)

- Haddon, A.C. (1881), "The Stridulating Apparatus of Callomystax Gagata", *Journal of Anatomy and Physiology*, vol. 15, no. Pt 3 (published April 1881), pp. 322–6, [PMC](/source/PMC_(identifier)) [1309996](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1309996), [PMID](/source/PMID_(identifier)) [17231386](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17231386)

## Further reading

- [Alison Hingston Quiggin](/source/Alison_Hingston_Quiggin), *Haddon the Head-Hunter* (Cambridge University Press, 1942)

- Cosimo Chiarelli and Olivia Guntarik, *Borneo through the Lens: A.C. Haddon's Photographic Collections, Sarawak 1898–99*, Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, Vol. 28, No. 3 (November 2013), pp. 438–464

- [Shephard, B.](/source/Ben_Shephard_(historian)) (2014), *Headhunters: The Search for a Science of the Mind*, The Bodley Head, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9781847921888](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781847921888) [\[1\]](http://www.randomhouse.co.nz/books/ben-shephard/voyagers-how-four-men-explored-the-brain-9781446477175.aspx)[*[permanent dead link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot)*]

## External links

English [Wikisource](/source/Wikisource) has original works by or about:

**[Alfred Cort Haddon](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/en:Author:Alfred_Cort_Haddon)**

- [Works by Alfred Cort Haddon](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/32226) at [Project Gutenberg](/source/Project_Gutenberg)

- [Works by or about Alfred Cort Haddon](https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28%28subject%3A%22Haddon%2C%20Alfred%20Cort%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Haddon%2C%20Alfred%20C%2E%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Haddon%2C%20A%2E%20C%2E%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Alfred%20Cort%20Haddon%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Alfred%20C%2E%20Haddon%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22A%2E%20C%2E%20Haddon%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Haddon%2C%20Alfred%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Alfred%20Haddon%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Alfred%20Cort%20Haddon%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Alfred%20C%2E%20Haddon%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22A%2E%20C%2E%20Haddon%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22A%2E%20Cort%20Haddon%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Haddon%2C%20Alfred%20Cort%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Haddon%2C%20Alfred%20C%2E%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Haddon%2C%20A%2E%20C%2E%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Haddon%2C%20A%2E%20Cort%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Alfred%20Haddon%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Haddon%2C%20Alfred%22%20OR%20title%3A%22Alfred%20Cort%20Haddon%22%20OR%20title%3A%22Alfred%20C%2E%20Haddon%22%20OR%20title%3A%22A%2E%20C%2E%20Haddon%22%20OR%20title%3A%22Alfred%20Haddon%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Alfred%20Cort%20Haddon%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Alfred%20C%2E%20Haddon%22%20OR%20description%3A%22A%2E%20C%2E%20Haddon%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Haddon%2C%20Alfred%20Cort%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Haddon%2C%20Alfred%20C%2E%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Alfred%20Haddon%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Haddon%2C%20Alfred%22%29%20OR%20%28%221855-1940%22%20AND%20Haddon%29%29%20AND%20%28-mediatype:software%29) at the [Internet Archive](/source/Internet_Archive)

- Listen to an excerpt from [*The Recordings of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits*](http://nfsa.gov.au/collection/sound/sounds-australia/). This recording was added to the [National Film and Sound Archive](/source/National_Film_and_Sound_Archive)'s [Sounds of Australia registry](http://nfsa.gov.au/collection/sound/sounds-australia/complete-list/) in 2011.

- Listen to the wax cylinder collection at the [British Library](http://sounds.bl.uk/World-and-traditional-music/Ethnographic-wax-cylinders)

- [Haddon Dixon Repatriation Project](https://web.archive.org/web/20230331223824/https://www.curator.ie/the-haddon-dixon-repatriation-project//The)

- [Artist, Philosopher, Ethnologist and Activist: The Life and Work of Alfred Cort Haddon](https://www.berose.fr/article2641.html?lang=en)

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