Tom Harrisson
Major Tom Harnett Harrisson,
DSO,
OBE (26 September 1911 – 16 January 1976) was a British
polymath. In the course of his life he was an
ornithologist, explorer, journalist, broadcaster, soldier,
guerrilla,
ethnologist, museum
curator,
archaeologist,
documentarian, film-maker,
conservationist and writer. Although often described as an
anthropologist, and sometimes referred to as the "Barefoot Anthropologist", his degree studies at
University of Cambridge, before he left to live in
Oxford, were in
natural sciences. He was a founder of the social observation organisation
Mass-Observation. He conducted ornithological and anthropological research in
Sarawak (1932) and the
New Hebrides (1933–35), spent much of his life in
Borneo (mainly Sarawak) and finished up in the US, the UK and France, before dying in a road accident in
Thailand.
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