Thomas Harnett Harrisson

Thomas Harnett Harrisson, plerumque dictus Tom Harrisson (1911–1976), saepe anthropologus appellatus, fuit polymathes Britannicus, qui ante Oxoniam migravit ecologiae in Universitate Cantabrigiensi studuerat. Interdum fuit actorum diurnorum scriptor, archaeologus, ethnologus, sociologus, "conservationista," explorator, miles, ornithologus, musei curator, pellicularum moderator, et scriptor.

Natus in Argentina, educatus est apud Scholam Harrovianam. Investigationes ornithologicas et anthropologicasque in Vanuatu fecit, multos annos in Borneo (praecipue Sarawak) habitavit, et deinde in Civitatibus Foederatis Americae, Britanniarum Regno, et Francia consedit. Socius etiam fuit Mass-Observationis, Britannicae pro exploratione sociali sodalitatis. Mortem in ictu automobiliae in Thailandia occubuit.

Per Bellum Orbis Terrarum II, a mense Maio 1942 ad Iunium 1944, Harrisson fuit dux Mass-Observationis, et iudicia de radio pro The Observer, actorum diurno, scripsit.

Fuit curator Musei Sarawak ab 1947 ad 1966.

Libri

• Harrisson, T. H. 1931. Birds of the Harrow District 1925–1930. Harrow School.
• Harrisson, T. H. 1933. Letter to Oxford. Gloucestershire: The Hate Press
• Harrisson, Tom. 1937. Savage Civilisation. Londinii: Victor Gollancz. = 1937. Savage Civilization. Novi Eboraci: Alfred A. Knopf.
• Madge, Charles, et Tom Harrisson. 1937. Mass-Observation. Londinii: Frederick Muller.
• Harrisson, Tom, ed. 1938. Borneo Jungle: An Account of the Oxford University Expedition of 1932. Londinii: Lindsay Drummond.
• Madge, Charles, et Tom Harrisson. 1939. Britain by Mass-Observation. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
• Harrisson, Tom. 1943. Living Among Cannibals. Londinii: George G. Harrap.
• Harrisson, Tom, ed. 1943. The Pub and the People. Londinii: Victor Gollancz.
• Harrisson, Tom. 1959. World Within: A Borneo Story. Londinii: Cresset Press.
• Harrisson, Tom, ed. 1959. The Peoples of Sarawak. Kuching: Sarawak Museum.
• Harrisson, Tom. 1961. Britain Revisited. Londinii: Victor Gollancz.
• Harrisson, Tom. 1970. The Malays of South-West Sarawak before Malaysia. Londinii: Macmillan.
• Harrisson, Tom. 1976. Living through the Blitz. Londinii: Collins.

Bibliographia

• Green, Timothy. 1970. The Adventurers: Four profiles of contemporary travellers. Londinii: Michael Joseph.
• Truscott, Jim. N.d. Voices from Borneo: The Japanese War. (inventum Iunii 2007).
• Heimann, Judith M. 1999. The Most Offending Soul Alive: Tom Harrisson and His Remarkable Life. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. ISBN 0-8248-2149-1. = 2002. Londinii: Aurum Press. ISBN 1854108417.

Nexus externi

• Mass-Observatio
• Biographia Alani Ioannis Marshall, socii
• Biographia apud BBC 4 TV, a David Attenborough enarrata anno 2007
• Judith M. Heimann, "Harrisson, Tom Harnett (1911–1976)" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography edd. H. C. G. Matthew, Brian Harrison (Oxonii: Oxford University Press, 2004) Situs venalis