ABSTRACT
In the years leading up to the Second World War, anthropology in Great Britain was taught at the LSE, Oxford University, Cambridge University and UCL. Radcliffe-Brown was appointed as the first professor of social anthropology at Oxford in 1937 (Marett having been a reader there at his retirement). At Cambridge a friend of Frazer endowed the William Wyse chair, which was first held by T. C. Hodson, a retired colonial administrator in India who had been made a reader in 1926. In 1936 Hodson was succeeded by J. Hutton (1885–1968), who during his time in the Indian Civil Service from 1909 to 1936 had made a population census of and written two books on the head-hunting Naga populations (see Indian Anthropology pp. 271–277). Hutton was joined by J. Driberg (1888–1946), who had left the Colonial Service to study anthropology under Seligman and Malinowski before teaching the subject from 1932 to 1942. Evans-Pritchard also gave a number of lectures at Cambridge. The founders of anthropology in Britain died in a span of years from shortly before to shortly after the Second World War: G. Elliot Smith in 1937; J. G. Frazer in 1939; A. C. Haddon and Seligman in 1940; R. R. Marett in 1943; and J. Driberg in 1946.
