Cyril Belshaw, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Cyril Belshaw

Canadian anthropologist

Date of Birth: 03-Dec-1921

Place of Birth: Sheffield, New Zealand, Canterbury Region, New Zealand

Date of Death: 20-Nov-2018

Profession: anthropologist

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Cyril Belshaw

  • Cyril Shirley Belshaw (3 December 1921 – 20 November 2018) was a New Zealand-born Canadian anthropologist, and was professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia (UBC) from 1953 until his retirement in 1987.
  • He was also the long-time editor of the journal Current Anthropology and served in a number of editorial positions.
  • He was President of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences and of its world Congress in Canada in 1984, and was largely responsible fore its reformation.
  • He is Honorary Life Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, the Pacific Science Association and the Association for the Social Anthropology of Oceania.
  • He has worked with the Canadian social Science Research Council and the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, the International Social Science Council and the International Council for Philosophy and the Humanities.
  • In the early sixties he was Director of the Institute for United Nations Fellows in Vancouver and was appointed by UN ECOSOC to a team reporting on the effectiveness of international aid in Thailand.
  • He has attended several meetings in Africa concerned with the viability of African publications.
  • In 2005 he was named World Utopian Champion by SOC.Stockholm and next yest published Choosing our Destiny: creating the Utopian world in the 21st Century. In 1979, he was accused in Switzerland of murdering his wife.
  • At his trial, it was revealed that Belshaw was engaging in an affair with another married woman.
  • He was acquitted by the all-male jury. He is the author of many articles and his other books include Changing Melanesia: the social economics of culture contact, The Great Village: the social welfare of Hanuabada, an urban community in Papua, Under the Ivi Tree: Society and Development in rural Fiji, Towers Besieged, the dilemma of the creative university, Traditional Exchange and Modern Markets, The Sorcerer's Apprentice: an anthropology of public policy.
  • He has travelled widely to meet colleagues in all continents.
  • In 2009 he published his autobiography in three volumes: Remuera: Memories of a New Zealand Boy between the Wars; Bumps on a Long Road Volumes I and II.
  • Several of his books have been reprinted recently.
  • In 2009 he extended his enterprise Webzines of Vancouver from digital publishing to print and plans to republish his out of print books, noteworthy Ph.D.
  • theses, and old classics of anthropology, during 2010.
  • He died in November 2018, shortly before his 97th birthday.

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