Jack Herbert Driberg (1888–1946)

摘要

In the course of writing an obituary of Aidan Southall, my attention was recently drawn backto Jack Driberg, his first teacher in social anthropology and an important source of inspirationand encouragement for him to take the subject up professionally.1 Many anthropologists,especially younger ones, have scarcely heard of him. Information about him is widelyscattered, and he is not an easy man to write about with confidence. He was clearly aremarkable character, who never fitted easily into the moulds that others tried to cast him in,and he was also the kind of person around whom anecdotes and myths, including some of hisown production, readily accumulated.