KAUFFMANN, Hans Eberhard. Mannheim 1899 — Munich 1985. German Anthropologist. After WW I his parents moved to Switzerland and he lived in Zürich until 1953. In the 1930s he organized a Swiss fascist students group. He studied anthropology under Heine-Geldern at Vienna, but made his Ph.D. 1934 at Zürich. In…
JUNGBLUT, Leonhard J. 1906 — Bombay 1979. Rev. Father, S.V.D. Dutch Catholic Missionary in India. As a young man in the 1930s member of Indore mission, worked on Bhils. Anthropological fieldwork in 1938-39. In 1962-71 Principal of St. Theresa’s High School in Bombay. Publications: A Short Bhili Grammar of Jhabua State…
JOYCE, Thomas Athol. London 4.8.1878 — Wroxham, Norfolk 3.1.1942. British Anthropologist and Archaeologist. Son of Thomas Heath Joyce (1860–1925), a newspaper editor, and Ellen Margaretha Murphy. Educated at Dulwich College. Studies at Oxford (Hertford College, M.A. 1902), then worked from 1902 in British Museum. In WW I in intelligence service…
JETTMAR, Karl Josef. Vienna 8.8.1918 — Heidelberg 28.3.2002. Austrian Anthropologist in Germany, famous Specialist of North Pakistan. Son of Rudolf Jettmar (1869–1939), an Art Nouveau painter, and Maria Mayer. Parents divorced in 1923 and he remained in Vienna with his father and three aunts, while his mother moved to Sweden. Roman…
JAGOR, Andreas Fedor. Berlin 30.11.1816 — Berlin 11.2.1900. German Anthropologist and Naturalist. Worked for Berlin Museum für Naturkunde. In 1859-61 travelled in India, South-East Asia and Pacific, then in 1873-76 and 1890-93 in Indonesia. Also collected plants. A keen photographer. His collections and photos were deposited in Berlin Museum für Völkerkunde.…
HONIGMAN, John Joseph. Bronx, New York 7.6.1914 — 4.8.1977. U.S. Anthropologist. Associate Professor (1951). Probably at University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Married, two children Publications: “Education and Career Specialization in a West Pakistan Village of Renown”, Anthropos 55, 1960, 825-840; “The Swat Pathans”, Anthropos 56, 1961, 941-946. – Edited: Handbook of Social and Cultural…
HOEK, Albertus(Bert) Wilhelmus van den. Apeldoorn, Gelderland 2.9.1951 — Mumbai 1.12.2001. Dutch Anthropologist. After school in Utrecht studied Anthropology and Philosophy at Amsterdam, then at Leiden, where B.A. 1970 and M.A. 1976. Also learned Tamil and Sanskrit (Heesterman). In 1977 further studies under L. Dumont in Paris. In various research positions,…
HITCHCOCK, John Thayer. Springfield, MA 29.6.1917 — Stoughton, Wisconsin 16.1.2001. U.S. Anthropologist. Professor in Madison. Son of Arthur Cornwall Hitchcock (1871–1949) and Ruth Harriet Thayer. B.A. 1939 Amherst College. M.A. 1941 University Chicago in English Literature. After war service as a pilot in Navy Instructor in English at Amherst College, 1946-48.…
HERSHMAN, Paul. Rochford, Cambridgeshire 17.3.1950 — Southend, Essex 8.1.1976, when 25. British Anthropologist. Fieldwork in the Punjab, 1972-73. The book is based on his unfinished Ph.D. diss. for the London School of Economics. Lecturer in Anthropology at University of Sussex. A noted chess player. Publications: Punjabi Kinship and Marriage. Ed. by…
GRAZIOSI, Paolo. Florence 2.11.1907 — Florence 24.5.1988. Italian Anthropologist and Archaeologist. Son of painter Giuseppe Graziosi (1879–1942). Studied from 1925 at Florence, graduated 1930. From 1936 taught at Università di Firenze, then as Professore di paletnologia e di antropologia in 1944-77 (ord. 1954). In 1939-53 also taught at Pisa. Participated…