Abstract
Trained as a medical doctor, Seligman took part in the Torres Strait Expedition (1898–99) under the leadership of Alfred Haddon and William H. R. Rivers, an experience that determined his decision to make a career in anthropology. His wife, Brenda Zara Salaman, collaborated in Seligman's later field studies and soon began to publish anthropological essays in her own right. Together the couple made field expeditions to the Veddas of Ceylon and to the Anglo‐Egyptian Sudan. Like his mentor Rivers, Seligman was converted to diffusionism and he developed diffusionist theories of cultural development in the South Seas and Sudan.
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