Angelina Pollak-Eltz

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Angelina Pollak-Eltz (born April 24, 1932 in Vienna ; died July 1, 2016 there ) was an Austrian - Venezuelan anthropologist .

Life

Angelina Pollak-Eltz was born in Vienna in 1932. After attending school in Austria, she studied in the USA, Italy and Switzerland. She then moved to Venezuela, but continued to study ethnology and anthropology at the University of Vienna. She obtained her doctorate in 1964 with the dissertation African relics in the folk culture of Venezuela . Pollak-Eltz taught at the Universidad Católica André Bello (UCAB) in Caracas for thirty years . Since 2011 she has been living in Vienna again.

Her thematic focus was on anthropology, history, psychology, religion with Afro-American syncretism , umbanda , Pentecostal movement and the María Lionza cult , ethnomedicine , folk medicine and cultural history. She was u. a. Corresponding member of the Anthropological Society in Vienna .

“Today there is so much anthropology that the actual ethnology hardly finds any subjects for itself - the non-scripted peoples. But they hardly exist anymore. Members of these so-called scriptless peoples are now also studying at the university and then doing a doctorate on their scriptless people. "

- Angelina Pollak-Eltz : Interview

Fonts (selection)

Monographs:

  • African relics in the folk culture of Venezuela. Arnold Bergstraesser Institute for Cultural Studies Research, Freiburg im Breigau 1966.
  • The black family in Venezuela. (= Viennese contributions to cultural history and linguistics ; 18). Berger & Sons, Horn / Vienna 1974.
    • Spanish language edition: La familia negra en Venezuela. Monte Avila Editorial, Caracas 1976.
  • Regards sur les cultures d'origine africaine au Vénézuela. Center de Recherches Caraïbes, Ste-Marie / Université de Montréal, Montréal 1977.
  • Cultos afroamericanos. Vudu y hechicería en las America. Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas 1977.
  • Aportes indígenas a la cultura del pueblo venezolano. Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas 1978.
  • Folk medicine in Venezuela. Stiglmayr, Vienna 1982.
  • Bibliografía antropológica venezolana. Instituto de Lenguas Indígenas y Centro de Estudios Comparados de Religión, Caracas 1983.
  • Folklore y cultura en los pueblos negros de Yaracuy. Prensas Venezolanas de Ed. Arte, Caracas 1984.
  • La medicina popular in Venezuela. Academia Nacional de la Historia, Caracas 1987, ISBN 980-222125-2 .
  • Las animas milagrosas in Venezuela. Fundación Bigott, Caracas 1989.
  • Folklore y Cultura en la Península de Paria (Sucre), Venezuela. Academia Nacional de la Historia, Caracas 1990, ISBN 980-222421-9 .
  • La negritud en Venezuela. Cuadernos Lagoven, Caracas 1991.
    • English-language edition: Black culture and society in Venezuela. Lagoven, Caracas 1994, ISBN 980-259406-7 .
  • Umbanda en Venezuela. Fondo Editorial Acta Científica Venezolana, Caracas 1993, ISBN 980-620121-3 .
  • Religiones afroamericanas hoy. Editorial Planeta Venezolana, Caracas 1994, ISBN 980-271211-6 .
  • La religiosidad popular in Venezuela. San Pablo, Caracas 1994, ISBN 980-350010-4 .
  • Drum and trance. The African American Religions. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1995, ISBN 3-451-23842-X . (Again in 2003, ISBN 978-3-451-28186-0 ).
  • El pentecostalismo en America Latina entre tradición y globalización. Abya-Yala, Quito 1998, ISBN 9978-04-414-0 .
  • La esclavitud en Venezuela. Un estudio histórico-cultural. Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas 2000, ISBN 980-244219-4 .
  • with Luis Beltrán : Repertorio internacional de especialistas en la "Africanía" (estudios afro-iberoamericanos). V centenario de la Africanía (1501-1503 / 2001-2003). 2nd Edition. Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas 2001, ISBN 84-8138-433-X .
  • La medicina tradicional venezolana. Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas 2001, ISBN 980-244288-7 .
  • Estudios anthropológicos de ayer y hoy. Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas 2008, ISBN 980-244523-1 .

literature

  • Ekkehard Schröder: For Angelina Pollak-Eltz's 70th birthday. In: Curare , Volume 26, 2003, No. 1/2.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary on venezuelaysuhistoria.blogspot.de (Spanish), accessed on May 17, 2017
  2. ^ Members of the Anthropological Society in Vienna . Retrieved February 28, 2017.
  3. ↑ 5 decades of ICA: Interview with Angelina Pollak-Eltz , July 12, 2012, Erhard Stackl . Retrieved February 28, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Pollak-Eltz, Angelina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Venezuelan anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 2016
Place of death Vienna