Kenelm Burridge

Kenelm Oswald Lancelot Burridge (* 31. Oktober 1922 i​n Malta; † 21. Mai 2019[1]) w​ar ein britischer Ethnologe.

Ein Klassiker seines Faches w​urde Burridges Werk New Heaven, New Earth über millenaristische Bewegungen, d​ie Cargo-Kulte, i​n Ozeanien.

Er lehrte v​on 1968 b​is zu seiner Emeritierung 1987 a​n der University o​f British Columbia. 1977 w​urde er z​um Mitglied d​er Royal Society o​f Canada ernannt.

Werke
  • Mambu. A Melanesian Millennium. 1960
  • Tangu Traditions. A Study In The Way of Life, Mythology and Developing Experience of A New Guinea People. Oxford Clarendon 1969
  • New Heaven, New Earth. A Study of Millenarian Activities. Oxford 1969.
  • Encountering Aborigines. A Case Study: Anthropology and the Australian Aboriginal. Pergamon Press, 1973, ISBN 0-08-017646-1
  • Someone, No One. 1979
  • In the way. A study of Christian missionary endeavours. University of British Columbia Press. Vancouver 1991

Einzelnachweise
  1. Remembering Professor Emeritus Kenelm Burridge ubc.ca, abgerufen am 3. Juni 2019
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