Godfrey Lienhardt in Mandari
54 x 43 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.19.11
Accession Number:
1998.97.576
Description:
A portrait of the Oxford anthropologist Godfrey Lienhardt taken whilst visiting his student Jean Buxton during her fieldwork in Mandari in 1950.
The portrait shows him eating fruit at a laid table in Buxton's quarters, probably at Tali Post.
Photographer:
Jean Carlile Buxton
Date of Photo:
1950
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel ?Tali
Group:
European English
PRM Source:
Ronald Carlile Buxton via Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Acquired:
Donated 1988
Other Owners:
Jean Buxton Collection
Class:
Furnishings , Colonial
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Primary Documentation:
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]
