David Zeitlyn

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David Zeitlyn FRAI
Zeitlyn in 2005
Born	1958 (age 65–66) Cambridge, England
Occupations	Anthropologist Sociolinguist Photo Historian
Academic background
Alma mater	Wadham College, Oxford Trinity College, Cambridge London School of Economics
Thesis	Mambila Traditional Religion: Sua in Somié (1990)
Academic work
Notable works	Virtual Institute of Mambila Studies
Website	users.ox.ac.uk/~wolf2728/

David Zeitlyn FRAI (born 1958) is a British anthropologist. He is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford, and a supernumerary-Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. His research has concentrated on the Mambila people of Cameroon, endangered languages and Cameroonian photographers such as Samuel Finlak, Joseph Chila and the late Jacques Toussele. Working on anthropological archives has led him to write on the ethics of archiving fieldwork data, and he has helped revise the Association of Social Anthropologists (ASA) ethical guidelines for anthropology.^[1][2] He has worked extensively on divination especially the form known as spider divination or nggam.^[3]