Arthur Bernard Deacon (1903-1927) was a social anthropologist who carried out fieldwork on the islands of Malakula and Ambrym in what is now Vanuatu.
Deacon was born in Nikolayev, then in south Russia, where his English father worked for a shipping firm, and at the age of thirteen was sent back to finish his education in England. Deacon graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, and was awarded a grant for anthropological fieldwork in Malakula. He arrived there in January 1926 and died there on 12 March 1927 of blackwater fever.[1]
Deacon's fieldwork was edited by Camilla Wedgwood into an ethnography[2] in 1934. Wedgwood incorporated the notes of the earlier field-worker John Layard into the book without Layard's knowledge and following threats of legal action the first edition only appeared with Layard's comments. The book was drawn on by both later ethnographers[3] and present-day inhabitants of the islands, although later fieldwork by Margaret Patterson radically reinterpreted his evidence on the Ambrym marriage system.[1]
Deacon had known Margaret Gardiner, a fellow student, for more than a year before leaving Cambridge, but they only started a relationship on the evening before his departure from Cambridge.[4] Although they exchanged many letters, and arranged to meet in Australia to live as a couple, they never met again.[4] Gardiner's memoir of Deacon was published in 1984.[4]
Worksedit
A. B. Deacon, Notes on Some Islands of the New Hebrides. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 59:461–515 (1929), ed. C. Wedgwood.
A. B. Deacon, Malekula: a vanishing people in the New Hebrides, ed. C. Wedgwood (1934)
A. B. Deacon, ‘The regulation of marriage in Ambrym’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 57 (1927)
A. B. Deacon, '4 Geometrical Drawings from Malekula and Other Islands of the New Hebrides.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 64:129–175. (1934)
Referencesedit
^ ab "Deacon, (Arthur) Bernard". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/75494. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^Deacon, A. Bernard (1934). Malekula: a vanishing people in the New Hebrides.
^Larcom, J. Stocking (ed.). Following Deacon: the problem of ethnographic reanalysis, 1926–1981. pp. 175–195. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
^ abcGardiner, Margaret (1984). Footsteps on Maleluka. Salamander Press.
External linksedit
Drawing It Out (Deacon's fieldwork sketches), by Haidy Geismar, Visual Anthropology Review 2014) 97-113.[1]
^Geismar, Haidy (2014). "Drawing It Out". Journal of Visual Anthropology. 30 (2): 97–113. doi:10.1111/var.12041.
May 22, 2024
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