Robert Broom: Physician and palaeontologist, discoverer of “Mrs Ples” or the most complete Australopithecus africanus skull.
Professor Robert Broom was born on 30 November 1866 Paisley, Scotland to a poor family. He was educated as a doctor and received his degree from the University of Glasgow in 1895. In 1893 he married Mary Baird Baillie.
Broom specialized in the field of midwifery, but he was fascinated by the origin of mammals and used his medical profession to support him while he travelled the world. After traveling to Australia, he settled in South Africa in 1897.
in 1976 the slaughter of students in Soweto and Soweto leaders asked the government of South Africa to negotiate the future of the country with Nelson Mandela, Robert Sobukwe and Steve Biko. on September 12, 1977, Steve Biko was killed at a police checkpoint in Port Elizabeth. it was the twenty-third person who died under mysterious circumstances in the jails of South Africa. Steven Biko became a symbol of the black movement.
Broom was released for the first time in its study of reptiles mamiferoides. AfterRaymond Dart’s discovery of the Taung child, a juvenile australopithecine, Broom’s interest in Paleoanthropology increased. Broom’s career seemed finished and was sinking into poverty when Jan Smuts Dart wrote to explain the situation. Smuts pressuredthe South African government and managed to get a seat for Broom, in 1934, as an assistant of Paleontology at the Transvaal Museum in Pretoria.
Professor Robert Broom was born on 30 November 1866 Paisley, Scotland to a poor family. He was educated as a doctor and received his degree from the University of Glasgow in 1895. In 1893 he married Mary Baird Baillie.
Broom specialized in the field of midwifery, but he was fascinated by the origin of mammals and used his medical profession to support him while he travelled the world. After traveling to Australia, he settled in South Africa in 1897.
Max Gluckman: Social Anthropologist Born in Johannesburg in 1911
Witwatersrand and studied at Oxford, and conducted fieldwork among the peoples of South Africa (1936-1944), was appointed director of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, Zimbabwe (1941).
He taught at Oxford (1947-1949) and held the chair of social anthropology at the University of Manchester (1949).
His studies focused on the political systems of African peoples, analyzing the role of conflict in maintaining social cohesion.
Meyer Fortes: Meyer Fortes (1906-1983) was a South African-born British anthropologist, known for her work among the Tallensi and Ashanti in Ghana.
His work in the Francophone West African research and political systems were more echo around other British anthropologists, especially Max Gluckman, and influenced in some way in the development of the school that later became known as the school of Manchester social anthropology. Once removed from their field research, Fortes spent much time as a lecturer at the University of Cambridge.
His studies focused on the political systems of African peoples, analyzing the role of conflict in maintaining social cohesion.
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