Sentences with word «ethnologist»

Dr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the Canadian ethnologist who spent more than a decade with the Inuit during his arctic explorations, lived almost exclusively on fish and meat for 9 years.

This was the research of ethnologists in primitive societies and, above all, the hypotheses of Lucien Lévy - Bruhl concerning the structure and functioning of the «primitive mentality.»

La Patrie was Norman Tindale began working at the South Australian Museum in 1918 as an entomologist's assistant, became its full - time ethnologist in 1928 and retired in

Two decades after forging an unlikely alliance in Pol Pot's Cambodia, a French ethnologist and a former Khmer Rouge official meet again after the latter is arrested for crimes against humanity, in this drama from top French director Règis Wargnier.

King's insight into how these three very different ethnologists met the challenge of fieldwork so many years ago and her ability to get into their heads and hearts is amazing, transporting and unusually affecting.

The early ethnologist R. R. Marett is noted for his dictum that «religion is not so much thought out as danced out.»

When news broke last month of the so - called «buddha from space» — a swastika - emblazoned statue, apparently 1,000 years old, that had been carved out of a meteorite and looted by a Nazi ethnologist — the world was enthralled.

But if the statue is so important, it must represent something utterly transient and hazy (this is the impression I get when I read the complicated explanations of certain scholars; I always wonder if ethnologists» presentations are not really poetry when they base their propositions on dubious notions grasped on the run).

Modern anthropologists and ethnologists give no support to the existence, now or at any time, of a pure Aryan race.

In The Art of Flying, ethnologists Thomas Hauschild and Britta N. Heinrich have traced the origins of this desire back to our upright stance and sense of balance.

THE distinguished American botanist and Amazonian ethnologist, Darren Posey, now based at the University of Oxford, has been leading a campaign to allocate intellectual property rights to indigenous people if their folklore is helpful to modern medicine and if the plants they collect to cure ailments are exploited by Western pharmaceutical companies.

Inspired by the Smithsonian Institution exhibition «Up Where We Belong: Native Musicians In Popular Culture,» director Catherine Bainbridge begins by informing us that in 1907 the American government dispatched ethnologists to record Native American music.

Culin corresponded with Museum Director William Henry Fox; trustees Frank Babbott and William Crittenden; dealer Monif; German ethnologist and archaeologist Albert A. von leCoq; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Edward Stevens, Librarian of Pratt Institute; and M. D. C. Crawford, Women's Wear editor, concerning the purchase and provenance of these paintings.

Ergun frequently collaborates with ethnologists, often extending his artistic practice into academia.

In searching for imagery of Native American face painting, Varejão was lead to the work of 19th century portraiture artists such as George Catlin, Charles Bird King, and Henry Inman, as well as the photographer and ethnologist Edwards Curtis, who captured their subjects in full ceremonial dress.

Unruly Objects (Suite for Thérèse Rivière)(2016) takes the interned figure of ethnologist Thérèse Rivière as its starting point; her collections of toys, notebooks and drawings from Algeria's colonial era provide fertile ground for Barrada's fictional response to her fieldwork.

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, August 7 - November 1 The Cuban ethnologist Fernando Ortiz uses the word sincretismo to refer to the concept where two or more cultural grounds mesh to...

In Bone River, Leonie and her husband, Junius, are ethnologists who study skeletons...

Two decades after forging an unlikely alliance in Pol Pot's Cambodia, a French ethnologist and a former Khmer Rouge official meet again after the latter is arrested for crimes against humanity, in this drama from top French director Régis Wargnier.

When Stone and her husband meet a group of fellow scientists and intelluctuals, sexual and emotional tensions arise, and King's keen insight into the relationships between three very different ethnologists is beautifully transporting and touching.

But in 2010 I co-authored a paper with two sea ice experts and a historian / ethnologist in which we used nineteenth - century records from whaling ships hunting bowhead whales in the north Pacific and beyond, along the Arctic sea ice edge.

Since the country was closed to traditional missionaries when he crossed the border in 1933, he resourcefully dropped his missionary identity and entered Mexico as an ethnologist and educator.

The people who make it their business to study or order human society (ethnologists, politicians, political economists, etc.) do so in practice as though Social Man were wax to be molded into any shape they choose.

The relationship between the two species has been studied by psychologists, anthropologists, ethnologists and also by genetic and molecular biologists.

Anthropologists and ethnologists have uncovered much cultural evidence, from oral histories and illustrations, that ancient African artists often used ritual animal blood in their creations, generally as attempts to please or appease their deities.

Ethnologists have observed that hunter - gatherers kill men who steal wives or kill others.

INGELORE MOELLER is an ethnologist, economist and medical journalist based in Lemgo, Germany.

While there is considerably fascinating research about the human - dog interaction and the domestication of the dog, in this section I am suggestion a more metaphorical, perhaps poetic relationship than the biologist and ethnologists might be comfortable in describing.

Under various topics such as «Reason and Politics», «Genocide», «Trance», and «Totem and Fetish», individuals among which are philosophers, musicologists, ethnologists, healers or fetishists speak directly to the camera as they build a massive essay on psychiatric pathology en masse.

For his work Reason's Oxymoron (2015), an eighteen - channel video installation, Attia created an expansive video library containing interviews with philosophers, ethnologists, historians, psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, musicologists, patients, healers, fetishists, and griots.

Using a wide range of media, Piscitelli time and again operates with both the objectivity of the ethnologist and the empathetic participation of a privileged witness.

Attempting to reconstruct the album in chronological order as an ethnologist would, he noticed it did not reveal anything specific about this family, but rather expressed their banality and predictability.

The artist, working like an ethnologist, recovered this «50s album and mounted the images to create a wall of photographs.