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Cyril Belshaw
(1921-2018)
Canadian anthropologist
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Cyril Shirley Belshaw (born December 3, 1921 in New Zealand) is an anthropologist, and was professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia (UBC) from 1953 until his retirement in 1987. He was also the long-time editor of the journal Current Anthropology and served in a number of editorial positions. He was President of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences and of its world Congress in Canada in 1984, and was largely responsible fore its reformation. He is Honorary Life Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, the Pacific Science Association and the Association for the Social Anthropology of Oceania. He has worked with the Canadian social Science Research Council and the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, the International Social Science Council and the International Council for Philosophy and the Humanities. In the early sixties he was Director of the Institute for United Nations Fellows in Vancouver and was appointed by UN ECOSOC to a team reporting on the effectiveness of international aid in Thailand. He has attended several meetings in Africa concerned with the viability of African publications. In 2005 he was named World Utopian Champion by SOC.Stockholm and next yest published Choosing our Destiny: creating the Utopian world in the 21st Century.

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3 December 1921
Waddington, New Zealand
Died
20 November 2018 (aged 96)
Zodiac Sagittarius
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