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The Curl Lectureship

Royal Anthropological Institute

Description

The Council of the Royal Anthropological Institute approved the institution of a Curl Lectureship, to be awarded biennially and to alternate with the Henry Myers Lecture. The first Lecture was held in 1963 and the Lecturer will be elected by the Council of the Institute.
Preference will be given to a topic from the fields of biological anthropology, archaeology, material culture, ethnomusicology and linguistics; and the lecturer should normally be under forty years of age.

Recipients

1997 Recipient : Dr. Peter Gow.