Colonial Social Science Research Council

The Colonial Social Science Research Council (CSSRC) was a British panel established in 1944 under the Colonial Development and Welfare Act 1940 to advise the Secretary of State for the Colonies on research funding in sociology and anthropology relating to colonial development.[1] In 1949 it was chaired by Alexander Carr-Saunders and its members consisted of Frank Debenham, Raymond Firth, Harry Hodson, Margery Perham, Arnold Plant, Margaret Helen Read, Godfrey Thomson, and Ralph Lilley Turner.[1]

References

"Notes and News". American Anthropologist. 51 (1): 167–169. 1949. doi:10.1525/aa.1949.51.1.02a00310.

Further reading

Mills, David (2002). "British Anthropology at the End of Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Colonial Social Science Research Council, 1944-1962". Revue d'Histoire des Sciences Humaines (1/6): 161–188.

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