British ethnology and anthropology

Alfred Cruikshank Haddon

1855 – 1940

Alfred Cort Haddon was a British anthropologist and ethnologist at Cambridge who led the landmark 1898 Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Strait, pioneering systematic methods in ethnology alongside W.H.R. Rivers and Charles Seligman. His fieldwork documented indigenous cosmologies, ritual practices, and material culture that formed essential comparative data for the Victorian study of myth and primitive religion.