Colonial Social Science Research Council
The Colonial Social Science Research Council (CSSRC) was a British panel established in 1944 under the Colonial Development and Welfare Act 1940 to advise the Secretary of State for the Colonies on research funding in sociology and anthropology relating to colonial development.[1]
Members
In 1949 the membership consisted of:[1]
- Alexander Carr-Saunders, Chair
- Frank Debenham
- Raymond Firth
- Harry Hodson
- Margery Perham
- Arnold Plant
- Margaret Helen Read
- Godfrey Thomson
- Ralph Lilley Turner
References
- "Notes and News". American Anthropologist. 51 (1): 167–169. 1949. doi:10.1525/aa.1949.51.1.02a00310.
Further reading
- Mills, David (2002). "British Anthropology at the End of Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Colonial Social Science Research Council, 1944-1962". Revue d'Histoire des Sciences Humaines (1/6): 161–188.
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