Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf
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Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf | |
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Born | Christopher von Fürer-Haimendorf 22 June 1909 |
Died | 11 June 1995 | (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-Haimendorf
Biography
Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf was born in an Austrian
He studied
After his thesis, von Fürer-Haimendorf moved to London in order to establish contact with the main anthropologists of his time, such as
In 1938, von Fürer-Haimendorf married
Thanks to friendly government officers, which included fellow ethnologist
When the war was over von Fürer-Haimendorf was named Advisor for Tribes and
Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf lived his old age in London, where he became professor of anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies. In 1987, following the death of his wife, his health suffered a decline from which he did not recover. He died on 11 June 1995 and was buried in London.[4]
Works
Von Fürer-Haimendorf published 3,650 pages of ethnographic notes and took more than 10,000 photographs.[6] He also shot a total of over 100 hours of 16 mm documentary films, giving a glimpse on the way of life of certain little-known cultures that were poised to change irreversibly.
- Published writings:
- The Naked Nagas (1939)
- The Chenchus (1943)
- The Reddis of the Bison Hills (1945)
- The Raj Gonds of Adilibad (1948)
- The Apatanis and their neighbours (1962)
- Morals and merit (1967)[7]
- The Sherpas of Nepal (1964)
- The Bagoria Bhil (1964)[8]
- The Konyak Nagas (1969)
- Himalayan Traders: Life in Highland Nepal (1975)
- Return to the naked Nagas: an anthropologist's view of Nagaland 1936–1970 (1976)
- Tribes of India: The Struggle for Survival (1982)[9]
- Films:
- The Men Who Hunted Heads (1970)
- The land of the Gurkhas (1957)
- The land of Dolpo (1962)
Archives
The papers and photographs of Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf are held by SOAS Archives. In 2010, more than 14,000 of these images were digitised and are available online here.
See also
References
- ^ a b Turin, Mark (1997). "In Memory of Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf". Himalaya, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies. 17 (2): 1–3.
- ^ "Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von - Biographien im Austria-Forum". Austria-Forum.
- ^ Macfarlane, Alan (January 2011). "Hutton, John Henry (1885–1968)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 8 November 2013.
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- ^ "Tribes of India". cdlib.org.
- ^ Review: Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf, Life among Indian tribes: the autobiography of an anthropologist, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1990
- ^ Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf, Morals and merit: a study of values and social controls in South Asian societies
- ^ Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf, Matthias Hermanns, Die religiös-magische weltanschauung der Primitivstämme Indiens. Band I. Die Bhagoria Bhil. Franz Steiner Verlag. Wiesbaden 1964.
- ^ Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf, Tribes of India: The Struggle for Survival, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1982.
- Andre Gingrich: Konturen eines Frontwechsels: Christoph Fürer-Haimendorfs Wege vom NS-Sympathisanten zum britischen Regierungs in: Andre Gingrich; Peter Rohrbacher (Hg.), Völkerkunde zur NS-Zeit aus Wien (1938–1945): Institutionen, Biographien und Praktiken in Netzwerken (Phil.-hist. Kl., Sitzungsberichte 913; Veröffentlichungen zur Sozialanthropologie 27/3). Wien: Verlag der ÖAW 2021, S. 1583–1610. doi:10.1553/978OEAW86700
- Ralf Meßner, Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf: Die Stellung der Naturvölker in Indien und Südostasien.
- Alban von Stockhausen: Imag(in)ing the Nagas: The Pictorial Ethnography of Hans-Eberhard Kauffmann and Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf. Arnoldsche, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-89790-412-5.