0:00:05 Cambridge lectureship, teaching Colonial cadets; resistance from the Colonial Office
0:09:07 Difficulties of maintaining children at school in England; money difficulties; food rationing in England
0:13:19 Ursula’s impressions of Nigeria
0:17:18 Julian Huxley’s visit; K.C. Murray and African art
0:21:30 1946 Cambridge; Faculty – Glyn Daniel, Dorothy Garrod, J.H. Hutton, Grahame Clark, Charles McBurney; first meeting with Hutton; Hutton’s dog; material culture lecture; only anthropology students apart from c60 cadets, Lienhardt and Cunnison; lecture load; pattern for anthropology students was to do undergraduate degree in Cambridge, post-graduate in Oxford with Evans-Pritchard and Fortes
0:30:45 Took Evans-Pritchard’s post to lecture on Africa; Meyer Fortes; Reo Fortune;
0:36:38 Hutton’s retirement party
0:38:15 Parliamentary Commission on Basutoland ritual murder
0:45:45 Meyer Fortes’ professorship in Cambridge; staff difficulties – Ethel John Lindgren; expansion in anthropology department – new staff including Edmund Leach, Jack Goody, Ray Abrahams.
0:51:50 Audrey Richards at Newnham and later Smuts Reader; Jack Goody’s examiner; Edmund Leach; S.J. Tambiah
0:56:20 Students: Jean La Fontaine; WilliamWatson
0:59:26 Ursula’s reflections on life as an anthropologist’s wife