Apatani 'prison'
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Title:
Apatani 'prison'
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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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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No date of capture was recorded for this photograph.
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This bamboo structure, built by the owner of the Apatani house to which it is attached, was intended to prevent the escape of a prisoner held within the house : the tower serves as a 'sentry box.' The prisoner was the man’s son-in-law : the younger man had reportedly badly treated his wife and tried to send her back to her father’s house : When the son-in-law went to his father-in-law’s house and demanded that he take back his daughter, the older man seized him and kept him prisoner in his house : When this photograph was taken, the prisoner had been held for seven months : the father-in-law demanded either that he take back his wife or pay him 100 mithuns a ridiculously high number.
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Haimendorf's reference:
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Original Container: BW Negatives Box III
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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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SOAS, University of London
Holding Location:
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© 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/NYI/0106 ( Haimendorf reference )