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Nigel Denis Oram (25 December 1919 - 15 September 2003),〔( Gealalogy Data, ORAM, BONSEY, BURRELL, DOBBYN, MUNRO & associated FAMILIES )〕 〔(James Griffin, "OBITUARY, Nigel Denis Oram, 25 December 1919, London, UK - 15 September 2003", ''Canberra Times'', 17 September 2003 ), by (Emeritus Professor) James Griffin University of Papua New Guinea 1968-1990, archived in "Canberra Times Death Index", THE RYERSON INDEX〕 was a British born public servant, academic, ethnologist and anthropologist specializing in the Pacific and New Guinea〔(Nigel Denis Oram interviewed by Edgar Waters Recorded on 24 March 1988 in Canberra ) National Library of Australia, Special Collections Reading Room OH ORAL TRC 2258〕 and was an acknowledged specialist in Papuan oral history.〔Michèle Julien, ''Mémoire de pierre, mémoire d'homme: tradition et archéologie en Océanie : hommage à José Garanger'' ('Stone memory, human memory: tradition and archeology in Oceania') Publications de la Sorbonne, 1 Jan 1996 - Archéologie et histoire - Océanie, p.160.〕〔Frankel, D. and Rhodes, J. W. (eds) (1994) ''Archaeology of Coastal exchange system: sites and ceramics of the Papuan Gulf'', Canberra, Division of Archaeology and Natural History, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Research Papers in Archaeology and Natrural History 25.〕 He has influenced a number of later researchers in the field of Papuan and New Guinean anthropology and history and along with Vanderwal, he also established the Prehisstory department at La Trobe University in 1976 and the Chair in Prehistory in 1980.〔(Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, Newsletter XXI June 1976 )〕 ==Early life== Oram was born at Maida Vale, London, Middlesex, England, and lived in Buckinghamshire, Sydenham, and North Yorkshire.〔 His parents were Denis Edwin Oram and Daisy Adeline Seaward.〔 his Father was an architect, but misfortunes reduced him to a clerkship in the Bank of England.〔 Oram was schooled at boarding schools - first at Gayhurst School in Buckinghamshire and was then "sent to a spartan school on the moors of northern Yorkshire", Sedbergh School. When his father died when he was 16, he won a scholarship to Oxford, but was recruited into the army in WWII.〔 During the War, Oram was an officer in the Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) and Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) and the Sixth Nigeria Regiment in West Africa. He served behind the Japanese lines in Burma with General Orde Wingate's Chindits. He commanded a reconnaissance unit of mainly Africans and Gurkhas with devocalised (non-braying) mules, then led a convoy of troops through middle India training for an foray into Malaya.〔 He met Joan Airey Bonsey, a sister in Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps en route to Africa during the war, and again in India and in 1944. They were married on 28 October 1944 at St Johns Church (Old Cathedral), in Calcutta India,〔 and then returned to Oxford to read history in 1946. He joined the British Colonial Service and was posted to Uganda in 1948. In 1951 he returned to Oxford University to undertake the 'Devonshire Course', an 18-month course in colonial history, administration and law under Marjory Perham. Returning to Uganda as colonial Secretary he had special responsibility for urban issues at the time of the Mau Mau rebellion, writing the relevant chapter for the 1952 East African Royal Commission on Land and Population and subsequently a book, "Towns in Africa". He rose to Senior Assistant Secretary in Native Affairs before returning to England in 1958.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nigel D. Oram」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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