Jean Buxton, (1921-1971) was a diploma student at the Institute of Social Anthropology, Oxford, in 1949, and went on to do fieldwork among the Mandari of Southern Sudan. This was initially at the request of the Sudan government 1950-1952, and a brief return visit in 1958. Her fieldwork resulted in a number of publications and she gave a number of lectures, although she held no permanent post in anthropology. Her D.Phil thesis, 'The Religion of a Southern Sudan Tribe Ð the Mandari' (1957) was revised and became her final publication Religion and Healing in Mandari (Clarendon Press 1973). She died quite suddenly while the proofs of this book were going to press.
Pitt Rivers Museum