Description: (British Anthropologist and Ethnologist)
Alfred Cort Haddon was a highly influential British anthropologist and ethnologist renowned for his pioneering fieldwork on the Torres Strait Islands. His collaborative efforts with other notable scholars such as W.H.R. Rivers, C.G. Seligman, and Sidney Ray had a significant impact on the field of anthropology. Haddon's 1898 publication, "The Recordings of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits," is considered a seminal work and was later acknowledged by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.