Charles Gabriel Seligman
British ethnologist
Died when: 66 years 270 days (800 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
Charles Gabriel Seligman FRS FRAI (24 December 1873 – 19 September 1940) was a British physician and ethnologist.His main ethnographic work described the culture of the Vedda people of Sri Lanka and the Shilluk people of the Sudan.
He was a professor at London School of Economics and was highly influential as the teacher of such notable anthropologists as Bronislaw Malinowski, E.
E.Evans-Pritchard and Meyer Fortes all of whose work overshadowed his own.Seligman's work promoted scientific racism and he was a proponent of the Hamitic hypothesis, according to which, some civilizations of Africa were thought to have been founded by Caucasoid Hamitic peoples.
Since the 1960s the Hamitic hypothesis, along with other theories of "race science", has become entirely discredited in science.
