Ethel J. Lindgren

Ethel J. Lindgren was an anthropologist based at Cambridge University. She was involved in the Le Play House and in the Regional Survey movement in British sociology from 1920 - 1955. Among other things she was associated with the Institute of Sociology which published the Sociological Review.^[1]

With her husband Oscar Mamen she was involved in introducing Reindeer to the Cairngorms in Scotland in 1949:

In 1952, I brought some of my Swedish mountain reindeer to Scotland as an experiment, to show that they could live and breed in these surroundings. Official difficulties which had caused delay were overcome mainly through the interest shown by the Press and the influence of the Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, an advisory and research body which my wife Ethel Lindgren and I founded in 1949. The Reindeer Company Limited was formed to finance the project and was registered in Edinburgh. The main office of both bodies is in Cambridge.[2]

Notes

^ EVANS D F T (1986) "Le Play House and the Regional Survey Movement in British Sociology 1920 - 1955", unpublished M Phil Thesis, City of Birmingham Polytechnic / CNAA [available at http://www.dfte.co.uk/ios]