Draft:David Zeitlyn

David Zeitlyn
Born1958 (age 65–66)
Cambridge, County: Cambridgeshire, England
Alma mater
Occupations
  • Anthropologist
  • Sociolinguist
  • Photo Historian
Notable work
Websitewww.mambila.info

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 ASA ethical guidelines for anthropology.