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{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name = Ethel John
| name = Lindgren later Utsi
| honorific_prefix = Dr
| honorific_suffix = MA PhD
| image = File:Lindgren_later_Utsi,_Ethel_John.jpg
| birth_date = 1905
| death_date = 1988
| address = Newnham College, Cambridge [1933]<br />Sunbourn, Harston, Cambs. [1937]<br />34 Causewayside, Fen Causeway, Cambridge [census]<br />
| occupation = anthropologist
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1933.02.21
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ordinary fellow - life
| left =
| clubs =
| societies = Royal Geographical Society<br />Royal Asiatic Society<br />Royal Central Asian Society<br />British Psychological Society<br />Peking Society of Natural History
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
RAI Council 1935-36 Member<br />RAI Council 1936-37 Member<br />RAI Council 1937-38 Member<br />RAI Council 1938-39 Hon. Editor<br />RAI Council 1939-40 Hon. Editor<br />RAI Council 1940-41 Hon. Editor<br />RAI Council 1941-42 Hon. Editor<br />RAI Council 1942-43 Hon. Editor<br />RAI Council 1943-44 Hon. Editor<br />RAI Council 1944-45 Hon. Editor<br />RAI Council 1945-46 Hon. Editor<br />RAI Council 1946-47 Hon. Editor<br />RAI Council 1947-48 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1948-49 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1949-50 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1950-51 Member<br />RAI Council 1951-52 Member<br />RAI Council 1952-53 Member<br />RAI Council 1955-56 Member<br />RAI Council 1956-57 Member<br />RAI Council 1957-58 Member<br />RAI Council 1959-60 Member<br />RAI Council 1960-61 Member
=== House Notes ===
1933.01.24 proposed by C.G. Seligman, seconded by L.C.G. Clarke <br />1937.12.14 The Council elected Dr Ethel J. Lindgren as Hon. Editor <br /><br />dog's name Kandalin, the puppy of Guekshen given to her by shamaness Olga, photo 9 May 1932 in Hailar
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Dr ETHEL JOHN LINDGREN-UTSI died at Reindeer House, Aviemore, on 23 March 1988. Born in Evanston, llinois, she was the daughter of a prosperous banker of Swedish descent. After her father's early death, her mother married the composer Henry Eichheim, who specialized in oriental music. As a result, her youth was spent travelling the Far East, and she early acquired an understanding of Chinese culture and society. At Newnham College, Cambridge, she took a first in psychology, following it in 1928-32 with fieldwork in Mongolia and Manchuria. For several months she was under virtual house arrest in Urga. There she met her first husband, the Norwegian Oscar Mamen, who accompanied her on expeditions to the remoter parts of Manchuria.<br />She visited the Reindeer Tungus (Evenki), on the northwestern border of Manchuria, during a politically tense<br />period; Japanese troops invested Harbin while she was living there. Among the Tungus she established a close<br />relationship with a female shaman, whose ritual and beliefs she studied and described in her PhD thesis, submitted<br />to Cambridge University. She also studied a neighbouring community of Russian-speaking Cossacks.<br />Because colleagues in Mongolia and the Soviet Union were persecuted by their regimes during the 1930s, 'EJ'<br />(as she was known to friends) was reluctant to publish anything that might jeopardize informants or foreign<br />scholars who had helped her; for this reason she published very little about either the Tungus or the Cossacks. Only in her last months did she make arrangements for the editing and publication of her scientific papers, which will appear posthumously<br />At the invitation of Prof K. B. Wiklund of Uppsala she visited Sweden and studied Lapp reindeer herders. A<br />traveller in the classical style, she spent months in linguistic and other preparations, and became a capable linguist<br />with a good knowledge of Russian and Swedish. During World War II she was editor in chief of the Social Survey<br />and worked at the Royal Institute of International Affairs as liaison officer to allied governments in exile. After the<br />war for a short time she lectured in the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge. She edited the<br />Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute from 1938 to 1947.<br />In 1947 she married Mikel Utsi, whom she had met in Swedish Lapland. With him in 1949 she established the<br />Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, and in 1952 reintroduced reindeer to Scotland. The herd in the Cairngorms, which Mikel managed until his death in 1979 (see his obituary in Polar Record 19(123): 630-31), occupied much of her energies in later years, and she was visiting the reindeer when she died.<br />Ethel John Lindgren was physically a most striking person, well over six feet tall and with fine auburn hair.<br />She was a good friend of the Scott Polar Research Institute, contributing many rare items to the library and<br />lecturing on the MPhil programme. Her extreme generosity to young scholars in her field was combined with<br />astringent criticism when the high standards she set herself were not followed by others. Her full stature as a<br />scholar will be appreciated when her scientific observations are eventually published. Many in Cambridge and<br />elsewhere will miss her as critic, mentor and friend.<br />Ian Whitaker
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
North-Western Manchuria and the reindeer-tungus, 1930<br /><br />The shaman dress of the Dagurs, Solons and Numinchens in NW Manchuria 1935<br /><br />The reindeer tungus of Manchuria<br /><br />Field work in social psychology<br /><br />Divination by magic drums 1936<br /><br />North Hsingan Province and its people<br /><br />Notes on the reindeer tungus of Manchuria<br /><br />An example of culture contact without conflict<br /><br />The collection and analysis of folk-lore
=== House Publications ===
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
census<br />scientific correspondence
=== Other Material ===
| first_name = Ethel John
| name = Lindgren later Utsi
| honorific_prefix = Dr
| honorific_suffix = MA PhD
| image = File:Lindgren_later_Utsi,_Ethel_John.jpg
| birth_date = 1905
| death_date = 1988
| address = Newnham College, Cambridge [1933]<br />Sunbourn, Harston, Cambs. [1937]<br />34 Causewayside, Fen Causeway, Cambridge [census]<br />
| occupation = anthropologist
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1933.02.21
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ordinary fellow - life
| left =
| clubs =
| societies = Royal Geographical Society<br />Royal Asiatic Society<br />Royal Central Asian Society<br />British Psychological Society<br />Peking Society of Natural History
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
RAI Council 1935-36 Member<br />RAI Council 1936-37 Member<br />RAI Council 1937-38 Member<br />RAI Council 1938-39 Hon. Editor<br />RAI Council 1939-40 Hon. Editor<br />RAI Council 1940-41 Hon. Editor<br />RAI Council 1941-42 Hon. Editor<br />RAI Council 1942-43 Hon. Editor<br />RAI Council 1943-44 Hon. Editor<br />RAI Council 1944-45 Hon. Editor<br />RAI Council 1945-46 Hon. Editor<br />RAI Council 1946-47 Hon. Editor<br />RAI Council 1947-48 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1948-49 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1949-50 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1950-51 Member<br />RAI Council 1951-52 Member<br />RAI Council 1952-53 Member<br />RAI Council 1955-56 Member<br />RAI Council 1956-57 Member<br />RAI Council 1957-58 Member<br />RAI Council 1959-60 Member<br />RAI Council 1960-61 Member
=== House Notes ===
1933.01.24 proposed by C.G. Seligman, seconded by L.C.G. Clarke <br />1937.12.14 The Council elected Dr Ethel J. Lindgren as Hon. Editor <br /><br />dog's name Kandalin, the puppy of Guekshen given to her by shamaness Olga, photo 9 May 1932 in Hailar
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Dr ETHEL JOHN LINDGREN-UTSI died at Reindeer House, Aviemore, on 23 March 1988. Born in Evanston, llinois, she was the daughter of a prosperous banker of Swedish descent. After her father's early death, her mother married the composer Henry Eichheim, who specialized in oriental music. As a result, her youth was spent travelling the Far East, and she early acquired an understanding of Chinese culture and society. At Newnham College, Cambridge, she took a first in psychology, following it in 1928-32 with fieldwork in Mongolia and Manchuria. For several months she was under virtual house arrest in Urga. There she met her first husband, the Norwegian Oscar Mamen, who accompanied her on expeditions to the remoter parts of Manchuria.<br />She visited the Reindeer Tungus (Evenki), on the northwestern border of Manchuria, during a politically tense<br />period; Japanese troops invested Harbin while she was living there. Among the Tungus she established a close<br />relationship with a female shaman, whose ritual and beliefs she studied and described in her PhD thesis, submitted<br />to Cambridge University. She also studied a neighbouring community of Russian-speaking Cossacks.<br />Because colleagues in Mongolia and the Soviet Union were persecuted by their regimes during the 1930s, 'EJ'<br />(as she was known to friends) was reluctant to publish anything that might jeopardize informants or foreign<br />scholars who had helped her; for this reason she published very little about either the Tungus or the Cossacks. Only in her last months did she make arrangements for the editing and publication of her scientific papers, which will appear posthumously<br />At the invitation of Prof K. B. Wiklund of Uppsala she visited Sweden and studied Lapp reindeer herders. A<br />traveller in the classical style, she spent months in linguistic and other preparations, and became a capable linguist<br />with a good knowledge of Russian and Swedish. During World War II she was editor in chief of the Social Survey<br />and worked at the Royal Institute of International Affairs as liaison officer to allied governments in exile. After the<br />war for a short time she lectured in the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge. She edited the<br />Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute from 1938 to 1947.<br />In 1947 she married Mikel Utsi, whom she had met in Swedish Lapland. With him in 1949 she established the<br />Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, and in 1952 reintroduced reindeer to Scotland. The herd in the Cairngorms, which Mikel managed until his death in 1979 (see his obituary in Polar Record 19(123): 630-31), occupied much of her energies in later years, and she was visiting the reindeer when she died.<br />Ethel John Lindgren was physically a most striking person, well over six feet tall and with fine auburn hair.<br />She was a good friend of the Scott Polar Research Institute, contributing many rare items to the library and<br />lecturing on the MPhil programme. Her extreme generosity to young scholars in her field was combined with<br />astringent criticism when the high standards she set herself were not followed by others. Her full stature as a<br />scholar will be appreciated when her scientific observations are eventually published. Many in Cambridge and<br />elsewhere will miss her as critic, mentor and friend.<br />Ian Whitaker
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
North-Western Manchuria and the reindeer-tungus, 1930<br /><br />The shaman dress of the Dagurs, Solons and Numinchens in NW Manchuria 1935<br /><br />The reindeer tungus of Manchuria<br /><br />Field work in social psychology<br /><br />Divination by magic drums 1936<br /><br />North Hsingan Province and its people<br /><br />Notes on the reindeer tungus of Manchuria<br /><br />An example of culture contact without conflict<br /><br />The collection and analysis of folk-lore
=== House Publications ===
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
census<br />scientific correspondence
=== Other Material ===
