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2 unusual facts about Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf


Christoph Fürer von Haimendorf

Christoph Fürer von Haimendorf, better known as Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf, (1909–1995), Austrian ethnologist

Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf

In 2010, 20,000 of these images were digitised and made available online via the SOAS Digital Library as part of a Jisc-funded project.


Kulturkreis

In America, Clyde Kluckhohn of Harvard was known to have been influenced by the same Vienna Kulturkreis scholars as Fürer-Haimendorf, and indeed, spent a year in Vienna while Fürer-Haimendorf was there.

Ursula Graham Bower

Bower never received any formal training in anthropology, but her photographs, film and two monographs on the Nagas and the Apatani establish her as a leading anthropologist, alongside her friends J.P. Mills, Bill Archer and Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf.


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