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Joyce was born in Camden Town in London in 1878. His father was a newspaper editor and he went on to Hertford College, Oxford where he obtained an Master of Arts
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Joyce was born in Camden Town in London in 1878. His father was a newspaper editor and he went on to Hertford College, Oxford where he obtained an Master of Arts
Hertford College.
He became an acknowledged expert on American and African Anthropology at the British Museum. He led expeditions to excavate Mayan sites in British Honduras. He wrote articles for the Encyclopedia Britannica including "Negro" which was derided in 1915 for its assumption of racial inferiority.
He was the President of both the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Anthropological section of the British Association.
In 1902 and joined the British Museum. He served as an assistant to Charles Hercules Read for whom he gathered ethnographic artefacts by collaborating with others who travelled abroad, like Emil Torday who went to the Belgian Congo.
Joyce took an increasing interest in American anthropology including a description of what is now the Totem Pole in the British Museum"s Great Court and the stories that it tells. At the end of the first World War he was awarded the Order of the British Empire for his service on the General Staff where he had risen to the rank of captain despite not joining the staff until 1916.
Before this he had written three textbooks South American Archaeology in 1912, Mexican Archaeology in 1914 and Central American Archaeology (1916).
These successes are contrasted with an earlier entry written for "Negro" in the Encyclopedia Britannica where he stated that "Mentally the negro is inferior to the white". Joyce"s description was described as ridiculous by West. East. B. Du Bois. Du Bois derided Joyce"s ethnographic description of Negros as culturally and intellectually inferior.
Despite this Joyce was still employed as an expert to lecture to British colonial administrators on "native races".
Elliott had married before and no evidence has been found of her divorce or a formal marriage ceremony with Joyce. Reporting regularly on the excavation of Mayan sites.
In 1927 Joyce published a book on Mayan art where he proposed that Mexican relief sculpture exceeded that of the quality of Egypt of Mesopotamia. He also made the claim that given that they had not discovered the potter"s wheel they had created very high quality ceramics.
Elliott, Joyce"s partner still took a great interest in anthropology even after Joyce died.
Joyce became President of the Royal Anthropological Institute in 1931 following long service since 1903 including periods as secretary and a frequent Vice-President. He was also President of the Anthropological section of the British Association in 1934. Joyce died in Wroxham in Norfolk in 1942.
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In 1927 Joyce eventually travelled abroad when he led an annual expedition team, including members of the Royal Geographic Society, to British Honduras.