Leo Viktor Frobenius (29 June 1873 – 9 August 1938) was a German self-taught ethnologist and archaeologist and a major figure in German ethnography. He...
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Frobenius is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (1849–1917), mathematician Frobenius algebra Frobenius endomorphism...
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anthropology and cultural geography, cultural diffusion, as conceptualized by Leo Frobenius in his 1897/98 publication Der westafrikanische Kulturkreis, is the...
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is an epic by the Soninke people of West Africa. It was collected by Leo Frobenius and published in 1921. An English prose translation was made by Douglas...
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remains largely unknown to Anglophone readers, excerpts from her essays "Leo Frobenius and the Problem of Civilisations", "A Civilisation's Discontent", "1943:...
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prompted by Leo Frobenius, were successfully promulgated in 1938, when legislation was enacted by the colonial authorities. Frobenius was a German ethnologist...
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(1): 21–27. doi:10.1080/00369222308734352. Kalaous, Milan (1970). "Leo Frobenius' Atlantic Theory: A Reconsideration". Paideuma: Mitteilungen zur Kulturkunde:...
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studied African mask forms in an illustrated volume by anthropologist Leo Frobenius. Primitivism continues in his work during, before and after the painting...
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acquainted with Leo Frobenius and became his faithful disciple. As a member of the Institute for Cultural Morphology founded by Frobenius and known today...
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German Inner Africa Research Expeditions (redirect from Frobenius Expeditions)
were led by the ethnologist Leo Frobenius and they are sometimes referred to as the Frobenius Expeditions. Leo Frobenius was a self-taught German ethnologist...
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sanctuary of "timeless principle", were acted upon by rite. In 1933, Leo Frobenius, discussing cave paintings in North Africa, pointed out that many of...
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ethnologist who furthered the theory of Cultural Morphology founded by Leo Frobenius. The term dema comes from the Marind people of southwest Papua and has...
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successful attack on an enemy village. According to German ethnologist Leo Frobenius, children captured by Songye slave raiders in the Central African Kasaï...
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life." That's the man who never followed his bliss. The anthropologist Leo Frobenius and his disciple Adolf Ellegard Jensen were important to Campbell's...
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Cameroon between 1910 and 1912 under the leadership of ethnographer Leo Frobenius. Frobenius carried out archaeological excavations at the ancient Yoruba city...
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the seventeenth century, and details from Africa he had obtained from Leo Frobenius. The Cantos can appear on first reading to be chaotic or structureless...
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uprising in East Africa. One of the unsuccessful expeditions was led by Leo Frobenius, a celebrated ethnographer and personal friend of Kaiser Wilhelm II...
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of Ife District – Oyo Province by J. A. McKenzie Voice of Africa by Leo Frobenius van de Port, Mattijs (2015). "Bahian white: the dispersion of Candomblé...
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Photo by Leo Frobenius of a Tiv village in August 1911...
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is synonymous with ethnic pluralism Cultural diffusion, a concept by Leo Frobenius where culture is shared between individuals Cultural diplomacy, a type...
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László Almásy—Hungarian desert researcher Hubert W. G. J. Penderel Leo Frobenius Hans Rhotert Prinz Ferdinand von Lichtenstein Mahmoud Marai (who co-discovered...
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The Frobenius Institute (Frobenius-Institut; originally: Forschungsinstitut für Kulturmorphologie) is Germany's oldest anthropological research institute...
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The Ninth German Inner Africa Research Expedition was led by Leo Frobenius to Southern Africa between August 1928 and March 1930. It visited modern-day...
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[26–32]. ISBN 0-252-01549-5. The oldest source is the tale "Rova" in: Leo Frobenius, Volksmärchen und Volksdichtungen Afrikas / Band (Vol.) III, Jena 1921:...
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a further expedition, this time with the noted German ethnographer Leo Frobenius, his assistant Hans Rhotert [de] and draughtswoman Elisabeth Pauli (later...
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Frobenius' report and his discovery of an industrious people and what some would describe as a glorious past interested W.E.B. Du Bois in Frobenius'...
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the Ife Empire had Paved flooring, even as far as modern-day Togo. Leo Frobenius, a 20th-century archeologist who visited Nigeria, also noted that the...
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doi:10.4135/9781452231648, ISBN 9780761930471, retrieved 2019-11-01 Leo Frobenius on African History, Art, and Culture: An Anthology, 2007 ISBN 1-55876-425-9...
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earliest translation of the story in English is the version recorded by Leo Frobenius, The American musicologist Maud Cuney Hare noted a "Song of Nana Miriam"...
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the Museum of Ethnology for the collections of the African explorer Leo Frobenius. During 1943 and 1944 the palace was badly damaged in the bombing of...
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