Furer haimendorf biography books
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Life Among Indian Tribes: The Autobiography of an Anthropologist
This autobiography of a well known anthropologist who spent fifty years studying tribal populations in India and Nepal traces his research among primitive food gatherers and hunters in the forests of Andra Pradesh and the equally isolated cultivators in the wooded hills of the Eastern Ghats. Führer-Haimendorf began his work among the Konyak Nagas of the Naga Hills at a time when they were still head-hunters, and was one of few scholars to observe the head hunting ritual. He later spent several years studying the large tribe of Raj Gonds in the northern districts of Hyderabad State, meticulously preserving in writing the epics and extensive mythology of their oral tradition. The book also recounts his fieldwork among such high altitude dwellers as the Sherpas.
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Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf
Professor Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf 1909-1995
Professor Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf, who died on 11 June 1995 at the age of 85, was Professor of Asian antropologi at the School of Oriental and African Studies, where he built up the largest department of anthropology in the country by the time of his retirement in 1976. He was born in Vienna on 22 June 1909. Members of his family had served the Hapsburg dynasty since the year 1273 and one of them had been a famous traveller through Egypt, Palestine and Arabia in the early sixteenth century. His father held a senior position in the Austrian Civil Service, for a time as the Governor of Sudetenland, and the future anthropologist was brought up in a cultured atmosphere where he developed a passion for the surrogate travel afforded bygd the opera and for Indian classics, such as Tagore, which he read in his early adolescence.
In 1927 he entered the Theresianische Akademie of the University of Vienn
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Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf
Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf FRAI | |
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| Born | Christopher von Fürer-Haimendorf 22 June 1909 (1909-06-22) |
| Died | 11 June 1995(1995-06-11) (aged 85) |
| Nationality | Austrian |
| Occupation | Ethnologist |
| Years active | 1943–1982 |
| Known for | Fieldwork in Northeast India and in the central region of what is now the state of Telangana and in Nepal |
| Notable work | The Chenchus, The Reddis of the Bison Hills, The Raj Gonds of Adilibad |
| Spouse | Betty Barnardo |
Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf or Christopher von Fürer-HaimendorfFRAI (22 June 1909 – 11 June 1995) was an Austrianethnologist and professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies at London. He spent forty years studying tribal cultures in Northeast India, in the central region of what is now the state of Telangana and in Nepal.[1] He was married to British ethnologist of India and Nepal,