Jack Herbert Driberg (April 1888 – 5 February 1946) was a British

anthropologist An anthropologist is a person engaged in the practice of anthropology. Anthropology is the study of aspects of humans within past and present societies. Social anthropology, cultural anthropology and philosophical anthropology study the norms and ...

. He was a part of the Uganda Protectorate and published ''The Lango: A Nilotic Tribe of Uganda'' in 1923.

Personal life and education

Driberg was born in April 1888. He attended Lancing College. He also attended Hertford College. He died on 5 February 1946.

Professional work

Driberg became involved in the Uganda Protectorate in 1912. In 1921 he became involved in service in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. He wrote ''The Lango: A Nilotic Tribe of Uganda'' in 1923. He left

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in 1925. He moved back to

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and attended the

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. He became faculty in the

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department at the

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. In 1939 he began serving during

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''The Lango: A Nilotic Tribe of Uganda''

While in the Uganda Protectorate, Driberg lived with the Langi people in

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. In 1923, he wrote ''The Lango: A Nilotic Tribe of Uganda'' about his experience. The book is an ethnographic look at the Langi. It includes

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s and a Lango-English dictionary.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Driberg, Jack Herbert English anthropologists 1888 births 1946 deaths People educated at Lancing College British ethnologists 20th-century anthropologists Alumni of Hertford College, Oxford Uganda Protectorate people Anglo-Egyptian Sudan people Alumni of the London School of Economics Academics of the University of Cambridge

Personal life and education

Professional work

''The Lango: A Nilotic Tribe of Uganda''

Further reading

References