11 Facts About Ralph Bulmer

Ralph Neville Hermon Bulmer was a twentieth-century ethnobiologist who worked in Papua New Guinea, particularly with the Kalam people.

Ralph Bulmer was born in Hereford, the eldest of three children of Kenneth, who worked at the National Westminster Bank, and his wife Dorothy.

Ralph Bulmer received a scholarship to study at Clare College, University of Cambridge and initially intended to study zoology but shifted to study anthropology, receiving a BA in 1953.

Ralph Bulmer received a doctoral scholarship and pursued his Ph.

Ralph Bulmer's doctorate was based on field-work in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea, where he documented the social and political life of the Kyaka-Enga people in the Baiyer Valley.

Ralph Bulmer was the Senior Lecturer of Social Anthropology at the University of Auckland from 1958 until 1967, after which he was the Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Papua New Guinea from 1968 until 1973.

Ralph Bulmer returned to the University of Auckland in the early 1970s.

In 1964, Ralph Bulmer began to study the Kalam people along with Bruce Biggs, and in 1968 he moved to Port Moresby, working as a professor of anthropology at the University of Papua New Guinea.

Ralph Bulmer was diagnosed with cancer in 1988 and died the same year.

Ralph Bulmer is best known for his collaborations with Ian Saem Majnep:.

Towards the end of his life, Ralph Bulmer considered biblical ethnoornithology, leading to the publication of The Unsolved Problems of the Birds of Leviticus.