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Winifred Susan Blackman
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'''Winifred Susan Blackman''' (1872-1950) was a British egyptologist, archaeologist and anthropologist. She was one of the first women to take up anthropology as a profession.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
== Family and Education ==
Blackman was born in Norwich to Rev. James Henry Blackman and Mary Anne Blackman (née Jacob). She was one of five children, and her brother [[Aylward M. Blackman]] also became a noted egyptologist. The Blackwood family later moved to Oxford.<ref name=":0">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
Blackman registered to study at the Pitt Rivers Museum from 1912 to 1915 where she took the Diploma in Anthropology at the [[University of Oxford]]. She also worked on cataloguing collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum between 1912 and 1920, and donated some objects to the museum.<ref name=":0" />
== Academic Career ==
Blackwood spent much of the 1920s and 1930s living and working in Egypt. She and her brother Aylward often collaborated together.<ref name=":1">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (2 for 1)</ref>
In 1927 she published ''The [[Fellah|Fellahin]] of Upper Egypt'', which became a standard work on the ethnography of the region.<ref name=":1" /> That same year she also began collecting ethnographic objects for the wealthy collector [[Henry Wellcome|Sir Henry Wellcome]].<ref name=":1" /> She was forced to accept stringent conditions in return for his support (including a promise not to collect anything for anyone else, including herself).<ref name=":1" /> She collected an estimated 4,000 individual items for him between 1926 and 1933.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (2 for 1)</ref>
== Selected Works ==
* 'The Magical and Ceremonial Uses of Fire' ''Folklore'' Vol. 27, No. 4 (1916), pp. 352-377
* 'The Rosary in Magic and Religion' ''Folklore'' Vol. 29, No. 4 (1918), pp. 255-280
* 'Traces in Couvade (?) in England' ''Folklore'' Vol. 29, No. 4 (1918), pp. 319-321
* <nowiki>'Some beliefs among the Egyptian peasants with regard to 'afarit''</nowiki> ''Folklore'' Vol. 35, No. 2 (1924), pp. 176-184
* ''The Fellahin of Upper Egypt: Their Religious, Social and Industrial Life To-Day with Special Reference to Survivals from Ancient Times'' (1927)
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== Family and Education ==
Blackman was born in Norwich to Rev. James Henry Blackman and Mary Anne Blackman (née Jacob). She was one of five children, and her brother [[Aylward M. Blackman]] also became a noted egyptologist. The Blackwood family later moved to Oxford.<ref name=":0">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
Blackman registered to study at the Pitt Rivers Museum from 1912 to 1915 where she took the Diploma in Anthropology at the [[University of Oxford]]. She also worked on cataloguing collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum between 1912 and 1920, and donated some objects to the museum.<ref name=":0" />
== Academic Career ==
Blackwood spent much of the 1920s and 1930s living and working in Egypt. She and her brother Aylward often collaborated together.<ref name=":1">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (2 for 1)</ref>
In 1927 she published ''The [[Fellah|Fellahin]] of Upper Egypt'', which became a standard work on the ethnography of the region.<ref name=":1" /> That same year she also began collecting ethnographic objects for the wealthy collector [[Henry Wellcome|Sir Henry Wellcome]].<ref name=":1" /> She was forced to accept stringent conditions in return for his support (including a promise not to collect anything for anyone else, including herself).<ref name=":1" /> She collected an estimated 4,000 individual items for him between 1926 and 1933.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (2 for 1)</ref>
== Selected Works ==
* 'The Magical and Ceremonial Uses of Fire' ''Folklore'' Vol. 27, No. 4 (1916), pp. 352-377
* 'The Rosary in Magic and Religion' ''Folklore'' Vol. 29, No. 4 (1918), pp. 255-280
* 'Traces in Couvade (?) in England' ''Folklore'' Vol. 29, No. 4 (1918), pp. 319-321
* <nowiki>'Some beliefs among the Egyptian peasants with regard to 'afarit''</nowiki> ''Folklore'' Vol. 35, No. 2 (1924), pp. 176-184
* ''The Fellahin of Upper Egypt: Their Religious, Social and Industrial Life To-Day with Special Reference to Survivals from Ancient Times'' (1927)
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