Tom Harrisson
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Tom Harrisson
Family Name
Harrisson
Given Name
Tom
Birth Date
1911
Death Date
1976
Nationality
British
Job Title
BBC Presenter, Ornithologist, biologist, sociologist, explorer, journalist, author, film maker. Founder and Chairman of Mass-Observation
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Major Tom Harnett Harrisson, DSO OBE (26 September 1911 – 16 January 1976) was a British polymath. In the course of his life he was an ornithologist, explorer, journalist, broadcaster, soldier, guerrilla, ethnologist, museum curator, archaeologist, documentarian, film-maker, conservationist and writer. Although often described as an anthropologist, and sometimes referred to as the "Barefoot Anthropologist", his degree studies at University of Cambridge, before he left to live in Oxford, were in natural sciences. He was a founder of the social observation organisation Mass-Observation. He conducted ornithological and anthropological research in Sarawak (1932) and the New Hebrides (1933–35), spent much of his life in Borneo (mainly Sarawak) and finished up in the US, the UK and France, before dying in a road accident in Thailand. (Wikipedia)
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| Title | Alternate label | Class |
|---|---|---|
| Primitive peoples. [4] The Kelabits | Performer/Speaker | CreativeWork |
| Harrisson, Tom | Performer/Speaker | CreativeWork |
| People Today | Performer/Speaker | CreativeWork |