Thomas Harnett Harrisson

Thomas Harnett Harrisson, plerumque dictus Tom Harrisson (1911–1976), saepe anthropologus appellatus, fuit polymathes Britannicus, qui, antequam Oxoniam migravit, oecologiae in Universitate Cantabrigiensi studuerat. Interdum fuit actorum diurnorum scriptor, archaeologus, ethnologus, sociologus, tutor naturaae, explorator, miles, ornithologus, curator musei, pellicularum moderator, denique scriptor.

In Argentina natus est, et apud Scholam Harrovianam educatus. Investigationes ornithologicas et anthropologicas in Vanuatu fecit, multos annos in Borneo (praecipue Sarawak) habitavit, et deinde in Civitatibus Foederatis Americae, Britanniarum Regno, et Francia consedit. Socius etiam fuit Mass-Observationis^?, Britannicae pro exploratione sociali sodalitatis. Mortem per calamitatem vehicularem in Thailandia obiit.

Per secundum bellum mundanum, a mense Maio 1942 ad Iunium 1944, Harrisson fuit dux Mass-Observationis, et iudicia emissionum radiophonicarum in ephemeride The Observer proferenda scripsit.

Fuit curator Musei Sarawak ab 1947 ad 1966.

Libri

Harrisson, T. H. 1931. Birds of the Harrow District 1925–1930. Harrow School.
Harrisson, T. H. 1933. Letter to Oxford. Gloucestershire: The Hate Press
Harrisson, Tom. 1937. Savage Civilisation. Londinii: Victor Gollancz. = 1937. Savage Civilization. Novi Eboraci: Alfred A. Knopf.
Madge, Charles, et Tom Harrisson. 1937. Mass-Observation. Londinii: Frederick Muller.
Harrisson, Tom, ed. 1938. Borneo Jungle: An Account of the Oxford University Expedition of 1932. Londinii: Lindsay Drummond.
Madge, Charles, et Tom Harrisson. 1939. Britain by Mass-Observation. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Harrisson, Tom. 1943. Living Among Cannibals. Londinii: George G. Harrap.
Harrisson, Tom, ed. 1943. The Pub and the People. Londinii: Victor Gollancz.
Harrisson, Tom. 1959. World Within: A Borneo Story. Londinii: Cresset Press.
Harrisson, Tom, ed. 1959. The Peoples of Sarawak. Kuching: Sarawak Museum.
Harrisson, Tom. 1961. Britain Revisited. Londinii: Victor Gollancz.
Harrisson, Tom. 1970. The Malays of South-West Sarawak before Malaysia. Londinii: Macmillan.
Harrisson, Tom. 1976. Living through the Blitz. Londinii: Collins.

Bibliographia

Green, Timothy. 1970. The Adventurers: Four profiles of contemporary travellers. Londinii: Michael Joseph.
Truscott, Jim. N.d. Voices from Borneo: The Japanese War. (inventum Iunii 2007).
Heimann, Judith M. 1999. The Most Offending Soul Alive: Tom Harrisson and His Remarkable Life. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. ISBN 0-8248-2149-1. = 2002. Londinii: Aurum Press. ISBN 1-85410-841-7.

Nexus externi

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Biographia Alani Ioannis Marshall, socii
Biographia apud BBC 4 TV, a David Attenborough enarrata anno 2007
Judith M. Heimann, "Harrisson, Tom Harnett (1911–1976)" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography edd. H. C. G. Matthew, Brian Harrison (Oxonii: Oxford University Press, 2004) Situs venalis