Arthur Maurice Hocart
| Arthur Maurice Hocart | |||||
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| Born | 1883 | ||||
| Died | 1939 | ||||
| Residence |
Lakeba, Fiji [1909] [and] c/o A.H. Hocart, 9 Greenlaw Avenue, Paisley [1913] 5 WaltonWell Road, Oxford [1915] | ||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
RAI Council 1931-32 Librarian
RAI Council 1932-33 Member
RAI Council 1933-34 Member
House Notes
A.M. Hocart was part-time Librarian from 1930-2
Notes From Elsewhere
Arthur Maurice Hocart (26 April 1883, Etterbeek – 9 March 1939, Cairo) was an anthropologist best known for his eccentric and often far-seeing works on Polynesia, Melanesia and Sri Lanka.
.... Beginning in 1931 Hocart served for three years as an Honorary Lecturer in Ethnology at University College London which allowed him to give classes occasionally. He applied to Cambridge once more - this time for the chair in social anthropology - but was again unsuccessful. In 1934 he moved to Cairo where he served as the Professor of Sociology, the only academic position he held in his life. Poor health dogged him and he died in 1939 after contracting an infection in the course of research in Egypt.
Publications
External Publications
The cult of the dead in Eddystone of the Solomons. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 52; 71-117, 259-305. (1922)
"The Origin of Monotheism" Folklore, Vol. 33, No. 3 (30 September 1922), pp. 282–293 Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of Ceylon (1924-36) editor with S. Paranavitana Kingship (1927)
The Progress of Man: A Short Survey of His Evolution, His Customs, and His Works (1933) Kings and Councillors: An Essay in the Comparative Anatomy of Human Society (1936)
Caste (1950)
The Northern states of Fiji (1952)
Social Origins (1954)
Le Mythe Sorcier et autres essais (1962)
The Life-giving Myth and Other Essays (1973) Imagination and Proof: Selected Essays of A. M. Hocart (1987) editor Rodney Needham
House Publications
Hocart, A.M. 1922a. ‘The Cult of the Dead in Eddystone of the Solomons, part I and II’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 52: 71-112, 259-305.
------- 1925. ‘Medicine and Witchcraft in Eddystone of the Solomons’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 55: 229-70.
------- 1931. ‘Warfare in Eddystone of the Solomon Islands’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 61: 301-24.
------- 1935. ‘The Canoe and the Bonito in Eddystone’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 65: 97-111.
------- 1937. ‘Fishing in Eddystone’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 67: 33-41.
Related Material Details
RAI Material
A94/8/140a Hocart, A.M. 28 Mar. 1936. Obit. 1939
Other Material
papers and photos in National Library of New Zealand