Audrey Butt Colson

Audrey Joan Butt Colson
Born
Audrey Joan Butt

(1926-03-15) 15 March 1926 (age 98)
Gloucestershire, England
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
Known forStudy of the Amerindian peoples of Guyana, Brazil and Venezuela
SpouseRobin Colson
Scientific career
FieldsSocial anthropology
ThesisSystems of belief in relation to social structure and organisation (with reference to the Carib-speaking tribes of the Guianas) (1954)

Audrey Joan Butt Colson (born 15 March 1926),[1] is a social anthropologist with a particular interest in the Amerindian peoples of Guyana, Brazil and Venezuela. She was, together with Peter Rivière, one of the pioneers of Amazonian anthropology at the University of Oxford.[2][3]

Part of the permanent endowment of the University of Oxford is a fund to support South American Amerindian Studies known as the Butt Colson Amerindian Studies Bequest.[4]

  1. ^ "Colson, Audrey Butt". Library of Congress. Retrieved 28 December 2014. Colson, Audrey, 1926-; full name: Audrey Joan Butt Colson
  2. ^ "Amazonian Anthropology". Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
  3. ^ The World Who's who of Women. Melrose Press. 1994. p. 84. ISBN 9780948875366. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
  4. ^ University Acts, Oxford University Gazette, 14 July 2005.