Barbara E. Ward
Barbara E. Ward (1919–1983) was a British social anthropologist and academic, who specialised in Chinese society.[1]
Life
Ward was born in 1919. She studied history at Newnham College, an all-women's college of the University of Cambridge.[2] She then attended the University of London, where she gained a diploma in education (a teaching qualification) in 1942.[3] For the next five years she taught in England and West Africa.[2] While teaching in Ghana, she became interested in social anthropology.[3] In 1949, she completed a master's degree from the London School of Economics having studied the Ewe speaking people of Ghana.[2]
In 1950, Ward moved to Hong Kong. She taught sociology at Chinese University of Hong Kong, rising to the rank of reader.[4] She spent three years studying the anthropology of the Kau Sai people. She returned many times to China and wrote about the New Territories area.[2]
During her academic career, she lectured at the University of London, Cornell University, the University of Cambridge, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.[2]
At the end of her life she was preparing a book on the boat people of Hong Kong.[4]
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References
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- 1919 births
- 1983 deaths
- British women anthropologists
- Social anthropologists
- Academics of the University of London
- Cornell University faculty
- Academics of the University of Cambridge
- Chinese University of Hong Kong faculty
- Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge
- Place of birth missing
- 20th-century British anthropologists