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Karl von den Steinen
Karl von den Steinen (Stadtarchiv Mülheim).
Born	Karl von den Steinen (1855-03-07)7 March 1855
Died	4 November 1929(1929-11-04) (aged 74)

Karl von den Steinen (born March 7, 1855, in Mülheim, died November 4, 1929, in Kronberg im Taunus) was a German physician (with emphasis in psychiatry), ethnologist, explorer, and author of important anthropological work, which is particularly to the study of Indian cultures of Central Brazil, and the art of the Marquesas. He laid the permanent foundations for Brazilian ethnology.^[1]

Exploration

1879-1881: A journey around the earth
1882-1883: First German International Polar Year Expedition to South Georgia
1884: The first expedition to the Xingu River region of Brazil (see Xingu Indigenous Park)
1887-1888: Second Expedition into the Xingú region (Brazil)
1897-1898: expedition to the South Sea Islands (Marquesas)

Works

Durch Central-Brasilien: Expedition zur Erforschung des Schingú im J. 1884 (Through Central-Brazil: expedition to explore the Xingú in the year 1884). Brockhaus, Leipzig 1886; Reprint: Fines Mundi, Saarbrücken 2006
Die Bakaïrí-Sprache: Wörterverzeichnis, Sätze, Sagen, Grammatik; mit Beiträgen zu einer Lautlehre der karaïbischen Grundsprache (The Bakairi language: vocabulary, sentences, stories, grammar, phonetics, with contributions to a basic language of the Caribs). Koehler, Leipzig 1892
Unter den Naturvölkern Zentral-Brasiliens (Among the primitive peoples of Central Brazil) Reiseschilderungen und Ergebnisse der zweiten Schingú-Expedition 1887–1888 (Travel accounts and results of the second Schingú Expedition 1887-1888). Geographic Verlagsbuchhandlung von Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 1894, Reprint: Fines Mundi, Saarbrücken 2006
Die Marquesaner und ihre Kunst: Studien über die Entwicklung primitiver Südseeornamentik nach eigenen Reiseergebnissen und dem Material der Museen (The Marquesas and their Art: studies on the evolution of primitive Südseeornamentik results according to travel and material of the museums), 3 volumes, Reimer, Berlin 1925–1928; Reprint: NY 1969; Reprint: Fines Mundi, Saarbrücken 2006
- Volume 1 Tattooing: a history of the island group and a comparative introduction to the Polynesian custom, 1925
- Volume 2 Plastic: with an introduction on "Material Culture" and an appendix "Ethnographic additions, 1928
- Volume 3, The library, 1928

References

^ Hermannstädter, Anita (2013), "Steinen, Karl von den", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 25, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 175–176; (full text online)

External links

Karl von den Steinen in the German National Library catalogue
Erland Nordenskjöld: Nécrologie de Karl von den Steinen. in Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 1930, Numero 22-1, Page 220-227, on persee.fr
Fines Mundi - publisher of reprints
Adorning the world: art of the Marquesas Islands, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Karl von den Steinen

v t e Xingu Indigenous Park
Xingu peoples	Aweti Ikpeng Kalapalo Kamayurá Kaiabi Kayapo Kuikuro Matipu Mehinako Nahukuá Suyá Trumai Wauja Yawalapiti Yudjá
Languages	Awetï Ikpeng (Txikão) Juruna (Yudja) Kalapalo Kamayurá Kayabi Kuikuro Matipu Mehinaku Nahukwa Suyá Trumai Waurá Yawalapití
Rituals	Huka-huka Quarup Yamurikuma
Explorers	Percy Fawcett Cândido Rondon Karl von den Steinen Villas-Bôas brothers
Rivers	Arraias River Culuene River Curisevo River Ferro River Jabotá River Ronuro River Xingu River
Films	Xingu Kaurup The Hyperwomen

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