Hugh A. Stayt

Hugh A. Stayt
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Residence	c/o C.H. Vincent, Box 9 George, Cape Province, South Africa Wilderness, George, Cape, S. Africa [1927] c/o Sir F.W. Dyson, The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, SE10 [1929] Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, S. Africa [1931]
Occupation	armed services anthropologist
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow left 1933 last listed elected_AI 1926.11.23

Notes

House Notes

1926.10.26 nominated; proposed by A.C. Haddon, seconded by H.J.E. Peake

Notes From Elsewhere

Hugh Stayt was a young South African soldier who had been blinded during the First World War at the age of seventeen. His future wife, Evelyn Dyson, nursed his wounds in a hospital in Chelsea and shortly after their marriage in 1922 she assisted him in attaining a degree in social anthropology from Cambridge ... When Stayt embarked on fieldwork in Vendaland in the northern parts of South Africa in the mid-1920s, he had to depend almost entirely on his wife. She then helped him write the material up into a UCT doctoral thesis. He did dedicate the thesis to her, though without mentioning her by name, but the book was neither dedicated to Evelyn Dyson, nor so much as mentions her role in the field nor in the writing up process.
Like so many other anthropologists in the interwar years, Stayt had stayed for a time with the Hoernles in Johannesburg and had his manuscript, initially the UCT doctoral thesis, examined by Winifred Hoernle ... [from Pioneers of the field by Andrew Bank]

Publications

External Publications

The Bavenda, 1931