Lucy Phillips Mair (1901–1986) was an eminent British anthropologist, an academic, and an ethnographer specializing in Africa and colonial administration (later renamed applied anthropology).

Biography and Major Works

Mair was born on January 28, 1901, in Banstead, Surrey, the eldest of ...

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