Arthur Maurice Hocart

Career Anthropologist / Teacher / Academic

Biography Diploma student at the Pitt Rivers Museum. Did fieldwork in Solomon Islands and stayed on in Fiji, as Headmaster of a school. In 1912 he returned to Oxford and then did more fieldwork research in Samoa and Tonga before returning to England in 1914. After the war he went to Sri Lanka as Director of Archaeology. In 1929 he retired and moved back to UK where he lectured at University College, London. In 1934 he became Professor of Sociology at Fuad I University, Cairo [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 30/01/2007]

Biography References http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Maurice_Hocart / Rob Welsch 'An American Anthropologist in Melanesia' vol II p 82

Clubs & Societies Royal Anthropological Institute [& earlier manifestations] / British Association for the Advancement of Science / Folklore Society / Oxford University Anthropological Society

County Hertfordshire

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Collected around 1918

Dates active 1883-1939

Donated around 1918

English collections Pipe stopper dug up at Haileybury School

Oxford Uni College Exeter College

Oxford Uni Education Yes

Oxford Uni date 1902 - ?, 1912-?

Oxford based No

Date in Oxford 1902 -1906, 1912-?

English collection size 1

Connections Henry Balfour