Terraced paddy fields in a Nyishi settlement
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Title:
Terraced paddy fields in a Nyishi settlement
Creator:
Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909-1995 ( Photographer )
Furer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909-1995 ( contributor )
Haimendorf, Christoph Von Fürer- (1909-1995); anthropologist ( contributor )
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[S.l.]
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English
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Photographic film: 35mm B&W negative, Eastman Kodak : Panatomic-X ( medium )

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Abstract:
These fenced-in and terraced paddy fields are in the Nyishi settlement of Lai, one day's walk south of the Apatani valley : Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf described the scene: 'Right in the village, people were working on a newly built flight of terraces, cut into a steep slope, flanking a small stream : I counted twenty-six terraces, one above the other, none of them wider than ten feet, while most of the dams were at least 5 to 6 feet high.' Although most Nyishis practised shifting cultivation, a few groups, especially those living near the Apatani valley, grew rice in terraced fields like these : In fact, Fürer-Haimendorf noted that this village had only recently changed from shifting cultivation of rice to terraced cultivation, having been taught that method by Apatanis : the structure in the foreground is a hut for someone who watches the fields during the day, and chases away animals and birds : the two longhouses in the background might contain several hearths, one for each wife in a polygynous family. ( en )
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Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf (1909-1995) was born and educated in Vienna, gaining a PhD in anthropology from the University of Vienna in 1931. A grant from the Rockefeller Foundation enabled him to study at the London School of Economics, under the anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski. In 1936, he went to the Naga Hills in northeast India for his first fieldwork; over the next four decades, he worked extensively in south & central India, northeast India and Nepal. In 1950 he was appointed Professor of Anthropology at SOAS, where he established the Department of Anthropology. During his career, he published seventeen books, most of them ethnographies of tribal cultures. He was President of the Royal Anthropological Institute (1975-77) and a pioneer in the field of visual anthropology.
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This scene was photographed on or approximate to 19450516
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Other designation of photograph: 201/9/Duta-Potin (May 1945)
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Original Container: BW Negatives Box IV
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For descriptive reference, see: PP MS 19, Diary, p. 136
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Haimendorf's reference: 201_9_Duta-Potin (May 1945), Mit
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Mai is also sometimes spelled Lai.
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BW Negatives Box IV
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Funded in the United Kingdom by JISC
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SOAS name authority for "Haimendorf, Christoph Von Fürer- (1909-1995); anthropologist" is GB/NNAF/P146323.
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VIAF (name authority) : Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909-1995 : record number 109123273

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Source Institution:
SOAS, University of London
Holding Location:
Archives and Special Collections
Rights Management:
© 1945, The Estate of Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf. The Estate is currently (2015) represented by Nicholas Haimendorf, son of Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf. ----- Creative Commons (by-nc-nd). -- This image may be used in accord with Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs.
Resource Identifier:
PP MS 19/6/APA/1034 ( SOAS manuscript number )
201_9_Duta-Potin (May 1945), Mit ( Haimendorf reference )