Emrys Lloyd Peters (1916–1987) was a British social anthropologist.

Life

Peters grew up in

Merthyr Tydfil Merthyr Tydfil (; cy, Merthyr Tudful ) is the main town in Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, Wales, administered by Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council. It is about north of Cardiff. Often called just Merthyr, it is said to be named after Tydf ...

and studied Geography and History at University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, graduating immediately before the Second World War. He served in the Royal Air Force from 1939 to 1945, primarily in

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in the Middle East and the Mediterranean. In 1945 he enrolled at

Downing College, Cambridge Downing College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge and currently has around 650 students. Founded in 1800, it was the only college to be added to Cambridge University between 1596 and 1869, and is often described as the olde ...

, to study under

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, following him to Oxford in 1947. Between 1948 and 1950 Peters conducted fieldwork among the Bedouin of Cyrenaica. Later in the 1950s and 1960s he spent further periods of fieldwork in Lebanon and Libya. Before completing his doctorate at the University of Oxford in 1951 he also studied Classical Arabic there. After graduating he briefly taught at Cambridge, and in 1952 was appointed Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester, becoming a full professor in 1968. From 1975 to 1977 he was President of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies. Peters retired in 1984, and died on 16 February 1987. The Department of Social Anthropology of the University of Manchester awards an Emrys Peters Essay Prize in his memory, from a gift made by his widow Stella.Notice in '' Anthropology Today'', 6/4 (Aug. 1990), p. 30.

Work

*Emrys L. Peters, ''The Bedouin of Cyrenaica: Studies in Personal and Corporate Power'', edited by

Jack Goody Sir John Rankine Goody (1919–2015) was an English social anthropologist. He was a prominent lecturer at Cambridge University, and was William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology from 1973 to 1984. Among his main publications were ''Death, ...

, Emanuel Marx (Cambridge University Press, 1990).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Peters, Emrys Lloyd 1916 births 1987 deaths Alumni of Downing College, Cambridge Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford Academics of the University of Manchester British anthropologists People from Merthyr Tydfil Social anthropologists 20th-century anthropologists