Jean Buxton at a picnic table
53 x 50 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.19.6
Accession Number:
1998.97.571
Description:
A portrait of Oxford anthropologist Jean Buxton sitting at a picnic table set up by herself and her supervisor Godfrey Lienhardt in the shade of a large tree at Gogrial.
Lienhardt and Buxton visited each other during fieldwork in 1950 whilst he was working with the Dinka around Gogrial and she with the Mandari around Terakeka and Tali..
The table is set with a bowl of fruit, and a pipe and box of matches belonging to Lienhardt, who is the photographer.
Photographer:
Godfrey Lienhardt with Jean Buxton's camera
Date of Photo:
1950
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel Gogrial
Group:
European English
NamedPerson:
Jean Buxton
PRM Source:
Ronald Carlile Buxton via Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Acquired:
Donated 1988
Other Owners:
Jean Buxton Collection
Class:
Colonial , Food and Drink
Keyword:
Foodstuff
Activity:
Eating and Drinking
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Other Information:
This negative has been cropped at sides and bottom.
[Chris Morton 23/5/2005] In Chiefs and Strangers (Oxford, Clarendon Press 1963) Jean Buxton notes (page xi) that '...
I owe a great debt to my supervisor Dr R.
G.
Lienhardt on whose help and ideas I have drawn throughout my anthropological work.
When I arrived in the Sudan he was working with the Dinka, and came to meet me and then spent a few weeks with me in Mandari country.' [Chris Morton 24/5/2005]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 23/5/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
