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Deacon , Arthur Bernard , 1903-1927 , social anthropologist
Wedgwood , Camilla Hildegarde , 1901-1955 , anthropologist
Wedgwood , Camilla Hildegarde , 1901-1955 , anthropologist
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Bernard Deacon was born, 1903, in Nicolaiev, south Russia, where his father was the representative of a shipping firm; came to England, 1916; education: Nottingham high school, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1921-1925; conducted antropological fieldwork on the island of Malekula in the south Pacific archipelago of the New Hebrides (later Vanuatu) where he gained a working command of at least three Malekulan languages, 1926-1927; he also spent six weeks on the neighbouring island of Ambrym, 1927; died of malaria, 1927.