Description: (British Physician and Ethnologist Known for His Detailed Ethnographical Work Races of Africa)
Charles Gabriel Seligman was a British physician and ethnologist recognized for his ethnographic studies of the Vedda people of Sri Lanka and the Shilluk people of Sudan. He held a professorship at the London School of Economics and provided guidance to prominent anthropologists such as Bronisław Malinowski, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, and Meyer Fortes. Seligman supported the contentious Hamitic hypothesis, proposing that certain African civilizations were founded by Caucasoid Hamitic peoples. However, his work from the 1920s and 1930s is now scrutinized for promoting white supremacist ideologies.