8-1451: Colson is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname [ edit ] Audrey Butt Colson (born 1926), British social anthropologist Bonzie Colson (born 1996), American basketball player for Maccabi Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League Charles Colson (1931–2012), U.S. counsel for Richard Nixon and (later) evangelical Christian leader; father of Emily Colson Christian Colson (born 1968), British film producer Clément Colson (1853–1939), French economist David Grant Colson (1861–1904), U.S. politician from Kentucky Elizabeth Colson (1917–2016), U.S. social anthropologist Eugène Colson ( fl. during World War II), Belgian resistance fighter Ethalinda Colson (stage name, Kathryn Adams ; 1893–1959), U.S. silent film actress F. D. Colson (died 1958), U.S. rower, rowing coach, and lawyer Gail Colson (born ?), British music manager Gary Colson (born 1934), U.S. basketball coach Greg Colson (born 1956), U.S. artist known for wall sculptures ("stickmaps", "piecharts", etc.) Guillaume-François Colson (1785–1860), French historical painter Henri Colson (1819–1900), Belgian engineer, industrialist, professor, and politician Jaime Colson (1901–1975), modernist painter of
16-480: A result of her fieldwork. The museum also holds two reels of 16mm film shot by Bassett Maguire in 1952 and a BBC recording of Akawaio music and songs made in 1961, all produced with Butt Colson's assistance. In 2012 a judge in the Demerara High Court ruled that Dr Colson could not appear as an expert witness in a land suit brought by Akawaio and Arekuna Amerindian communities because of her prior support of
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32-512: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Audrey Butt Colson Audrey Joan Butt Colson (born 15 March 1926), is a social anthropologist with a particular interest in the Amerindian peoples of Guyana, Brazil and Venezuela. She was, together with Peter Rivière , one of the pioneers of Amazonian anthropology at the University of Oxford . Part of the permanent endowment of
40-665: The Diploma in Ethnology in 1949, the B.Litt. degree in 1950, and the D.Phil. in 1955. She then spent a year in Spain to learn Spanish in preparation for further fieldwork in South America. In 1956 she lectured on South American societies at Oxford's Department of Ethnology . The South American collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum contain 310 Amerindian objects donated by Butt Colson as
48-1501: The Dominican Republic Jean Claude Gilles Colson (stage name, Bellecour; 1725–1778), French actor Jean-François Gilles Colson (1733–1803), French painter Jeff Colson (born 1957), U.S. painter and sculptor John Colson (1680–1760), British clergyman and mathematician Kevin Colson (1937–2018), Australian actor Loyd Colson (born 1947), U.S. baseball pitcher Ms Von Colson ( fl. 1984), German European Court of Justice plaintiff [see: Von Colson v Land Nordrhein-Westfalen ] Osborne Colson (1916–2006), Canadian figure skater and coach Sam Colson (born 1951), U.S. javelin thrower and Olympic competitor Sean Colson (born 1975), U.S. basketball player Sydney Colson (born 1989), U.S. basketball player Ted Colson (1881–1950), Australian bushman, pastoralist, and pioneer Fictional characters [ edit ] Zachary Colson , character from Wing Commander II Colson, son of Wulfgar, character from The Icewind Dale Trilogy [see: Wulfgar (Forgotten Realms) ] Given name [ edit ] Colson Baker (born 1990; known professionally as Machine Gun Kelly ), American rapper, singer, songwriter, and actor known as Colson Whitehead (born 1969), American novelist Colson Yankoff (born 2000), American football player See also [ edit ] Colson House ,
56-683: The University of Oxford is a fund to support South American Amerindian Studies known as the Butt Colson Amerindian Studies Bequest. Audrey Butt studied at Oxford under Edward Evans-Pritchard , and carried out fieldwork among the Akawaio people in Guyana in 1951-1952 and in 1957, later broadening her study to include other Pemon and Kapon groups in Brazil, Guyana and Venezuela. She obtained
64-610: The plaintiffs' position. In September 2013 Survival International published her report, Dug out, dried out or flooded out? Hydro Power and Mining Threats to the Indigenous Peoples of the Upper Mazaruni District, Guyana , demonstrating that the government of Guyana's plans to build hydroelectric dams on the upper Mazaruni River would flood the entire territory of the Akawaio indigenous people. Coulson Coulson
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