Sherdukpen Sat Rajas with Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf in Assam
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Sherdukpen Sat Rajas with Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf in Assam
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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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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 19440216
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Original Container: BW Negatives Box III
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Sat Rajas ('Seven Kings') is the title for the representatives of a few Sherdukpen villages who came to the plains to transact business with the government. They came on this occasion to meet J. P. Mills, Adviser to the Governor of Assam for Tribal Areas. Mills had just appointed Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf as his special officer for the Subansiri area. Fürer-Haimendorf had recently arrived from central India and would soon begin his trek to the Apatani valley, where he was both government official and ethnographer. This meeting took place at the Sherdukpen winter camp on the Belsiri River, east of Charduar in Assam. Each year Sherdukpens (and other Arunachal tribes) came to Charduar to receive annual payments from the government. Charduar was the headquarters of the Balipara Frontier Tract, which included most of the eastern districts of present-day Arunachal Pradesh, where Sherdukpens (Akas, Mijis, Monpas and Buguns) live. Charduar ('Four-Door/Gate') was one of several duars along the base of the eastern Himalayas where hill tribes came to transact business with the rulers of the plains. Many tribes received an annual payment (posa) in goods and/or cash in return for not raiding villages in the plains. For some tribes, these payments continued for several years even after 1947. Sat Rajas wear ceremonial clothes and hats influenced by eastern Bhutanese and Tibetan traditions.
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For descriptive reference, see: Mills, J.P. 'Tour note on Balipara Frontier Tract' Pam Assam A 143633 (2) p. 1
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BW Negatives Box III
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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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© 1944, 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.
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PP MS 19/6/SHERD/0039 ( Haimendorf reference )