Aidan Southall

Aidan W. Southall (1920-2009) was an anthropologist who worked in Uganda and Madagascar. From 1957 to 1961 he was Director of the Institute of Social Research and was also Chairman of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology whose syllabus hedesigned. He held visiting Professorships at University of Chicago and University California during 1961-62. He moved to Syracuse University in 1963 and to the University of Wisconsin Madison before retiring in 1991. He first worked among the Alur in 1947 and he continued visiting and writing about them in retirement.

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