Tschopik, Harry, 1915-1956
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- Summary
- Harry Tschopik Jr. was an American ethnologist whose researched centered on South American material culture, namely Peruvian indigenous communities. He worked to fuse a relationship between ethnology and archeology, while adhering strongly to a belief in the mission of museums to take anthropology to the public. He was a seminal figure in Peruvian ethnology having trained many of the first-generation Peruvian ethnologists, and as a scholar, he set the standard for field recordings for cultural anthropology. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Male [1][2][3][4]
- Born
- 1915 [2]
- 1915-08-23 [4]
- Birth Place
- New Orleans, La. [3]
- Died
- 1956 [2]
- 1956-11-12 [4]
- Country
- United States [2]
- Language
- English [3]
- Occupation
- ethnologist [4]
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 4. Wikidata
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