Hill, Polly, 1914-2005

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Book 1972

Summary: Polly Hill was a British social anthropologist of West Africa, and an Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge. Wikipedia
Gender or Sex: Female [1][2][4][5]
Born: 1914-06-14 [2][5]
Birth Place: Cambridge [5]
Died: 2005-08-21 [2][5]
Death Place: Cambridgeshire [5]; Ely [5]
Country: Great Britain [2]
Language: English [3]
Occupation: anthropologist [5]; economist [5]
Profession: Sozialanthropologin [2]
Employer: University of Cambridge [5]; University of Ghana [5]
Educated at: Newnham College [5]
Country of Education: United Kingdom [5]
Archives at: Northwestern University Archives [5]
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Biography (requires subscription) [5]
Yale LUX: Entity [5]

Sources: 1. VIAF; 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany); 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France; 4. Library of Congress; 5. Wikidata

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