Alexander Shand (ethnologist)

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Alexander Shand (1840–1910) was a New Zealand farmer, interpreter and ethnographer. He was born in Petone, Wellington, New Zealand in 1840.{{DNZB|title=Alexander Shand|first= Hugh|last= Stringer|id=2s16|accessdate=15 January 2012}} His views on "sentiment" influenced William McDougall's theory of instinct.{{cite book|author=George W. Stocking|title=Malinowski, Rivers, Benedict and Others: Essays on Culture and Personality|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3rIw-XaIQU0C&pg=PA29|date=5 March 1987|publisher=Univ of Wisconsin Press|isbn=978-0-299-10733-8|page=29}}