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- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOADI03790/00001
Notes
- Abstract:
- This man is a shaman, wearing the distinctive costume of that specialist : He holds a ritual fan made of hornbill feathers, and he wears a necklace of expensive conch-shell beads : the strap for his machete is decorated with cowrie shells, while several metal chains hang from the skewer in this hair knot : He wears large hoop earrings, a woven headdress, a special jacket and not seen here, a shaman's shawl underneath an ordinary shawl : He also wears a metal bracelet on one arm and a wrist guard with an Indian rupee coin on the other : Standing up from his typical hairknot is a small piece of split bamboo, which he will later take home and keep as a memento of the fact that he conducted this important feast : this photograph was taken as he was leading a procession through the paddy fields during an Apatani feast Murung (Feast of Merit), : Each year, several Apatani families celebrate this three-week long feast, involving mithun and cow sacrifice, public chanting by the shaman and complex gift-giving between the feast sponsor and various kin and ceremonial friends : During the procession, which takes place more than a week after the large animal sacrifice on the first day, the shaman leads a long line of young boys and men belonging to the sponsor's clan : Dressed in ceremonial finery and brandishing their machetes, they walk through the entire Apatani valley only 8 kilometres long and 4 across, visiting all nine villages and each ritual platform in each village. ( 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 19450208
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- Other designation of photograph: 187/18/Duta (February 1945)
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- Original Container: BW Negatives Box III
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- For descriptive reference, see: PP MS 19, Diary, p. 88
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- Haimendorf's reference: 187_18_Duta (February 1945), Mor
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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.
- General Note:
- 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:
- © 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/0609 ( SOAS manuscript number )
187_18_Duta (February 1945), Mor ( Haimendorf reference )
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