Building an Apatani house
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Title:
Building an Apatani house
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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Language:
English
Materials:
Photographic film: 35mm B&W negative, Eastman Kodak : Panchromatic ( medium )

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Abstract:
This is probably the house that was built for Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf and his wife, Betty, a few days after their arrival in the Apatani valley : Apatani houses are built using hardwood poles and posts, bamboo floors and railings, and walls of flattened bamboo : Roofs consisted of thatch over flattened bamboo : as Fürer-Haimendorf discovered, Apatanis live in nuclear families, in narrow houses approx : 12 x 4 metres, and in compact villages, in order to use every square metre of land for wet-rice agriculture : When he complained that the house looked too narrow, he was told by his hosts that they only knew how to build narrow houses : Length, on the other hand, was up to him : thatch for the roof was abandoned by the 1970s, and since the 1990s corrugated iron sheeting has been preferred : another change is that houses are now only about 1 metre above ground, while in the 1940s they were raised up higher : Wooden or concrete steps have been substituted for the notched wooden board leading to the front porch : In other essentials, however, Apatani houses today look like those seen in this photograph. ( 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 19440315
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Other designation of photograph: 155/18/Subansiri Apa Tani
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Original Container: BW Negatives Box III
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For descriptive reference, see: PP MS 19, Diary, p. 8
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Haimendorf's reference: 155_18_Subansiri, Apa Tani
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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

Record Information

Source Institution:
SOAS, University of London
Holding Location:
Archives and Special Collections
Rights Management:
© 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.
Resource Identifier:
PP MS 19/6/APA/0013 ( SOAS manuscript number )
155_18_Subansiri, Apa Tani ( Haimendorf reference )