Photographic collections: Ladislav Holy Collection of Social Anthropology Photography
Ladislav Holy Collection of Social Anthropology Photography
Ladislav Holy was Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews when he died in April 1997 at the age of 64 years old. Ladislav conducted fieldwork first among the Berti of the Sudan during two lengthy research expeditions in 1961 and 1965, and subsequently returned on six occasions over the next 25 years. He then studied the Toka people intermittently from 1968 to 1972 during his time as Director of the Livingstone Museum in Zambia.
These photographs have been transferred from the University Library's Manuscript Collection (ms38891) - entitled the Papers of Ladislav Holy. The entire collection contains research papers on field work mainly on kinship with the Berti and Watkami in the Sudan and the Toka in Zambia; copies of court testimonies in Zambia, notebooks and card indices; papers by other anthropologists; research notes and surveys on Czech identity; correspondence; audio tapes; lectures and teaching notes; photographs, slides and contact sheets; outsize folders of kinship diagrams and maps.
Further information on the manuscript material relating to this collection can be searched for on the University's Special Collection page here.
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