Christian F. Feest

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Christian Feest, 2015

Christian Fenimore Feest (born July 20, 1945 in Broumov , Czechoslovakia ) is an Austrian ethnologist .

biography

Christian Feest studied at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate there in 1969 on the subject of “Virginia Algonkin 1570-1703. Ethnohistory and Historical Ethnography ”(the work is only available in typescript). He completed his habilitation in 1980 at the University of Vienna with a thesis on “ Drinking and Drunkenness in Indian North America. On the question of the social and cultural aspects of alcohol consumption ”. Against this background, he soon became a leading expert on the North American Indians .

From 1987 to 2007 he was editor of the Review of Native American Studies . He initially worked as an employee at the Museum of Ethnology in Vienna, then became Professor of Ethnology of North America at the University of Frankfurt am Main . From 2004 to 2010 he headed the Museum für Völkerkunde in Vienna and taught at the University of Vienna . Christian Feest has two brothers, Johannes Feest and Gerhard Gleich .

Works (selection)

as an author
  • Frederick Weygold. Artist and explorer of North American Indians . ZKF Publishers, Altenstadt 2017. ISBN 978-3-9818412-1-3 (together with C. Ronald Corum)
  • The power of fate, or: chance or necessity. How I came to ethnology (or it came to me) . In: Paideuma 60, pp. 7-23 (2014).
  • Animated worlds. The religions of the North American Indians . Herder, Freiburg / B. 2003, ISBN 3-451-28186-4 (Small Library of Religions; 9).
  • The Powhatan Tribes, Chelsea House, New York 1990. ISBN 0-7910-0395-7
  • The Art of War . Thames & Hudson, London 1980, ISBN 0-500-06010-X .
  • Native Arts of North America . Thames & Hudson, London 1980, ISBN 0-500-18179-9 . (2nd edition 1992)
  • The red America. North America's Indians . Europa-Verlag, Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-203-50577-0 .
as editor
  • Rainforest . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Darmstadt 2015. ISBN 978-3-8062-2799-4 (together with Christine Kron)
  • The old Mexican feather headdress . ZKF Publishers, Altenstadt 2012. ISBN 978-9811620-5-9 (together with Sabine Haag, Alfonso de Maria y Campos, Lilia Rivero Weber)
  • Indians. Native Americans. Lokschuppen, Rosenheim 2011. ISBN 978-3-00-033347-7
  • Sitting Bull and his world . Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 2009. ISBN 978-3-85497-153-5
  • Three Centuries of Woodlands Indian Art. ZKF Publishers, Altenstadt 2007. ISBN 978-3-9811620-0-4 (together with JCH King)
  • Premières Nations, Collections Royales. Réunion des Musées Nationaux - Musée du quai Branly, Paris 2007. ISBN 978-2-9151-3345-5
  • Indian Times. News from red America . Self-published, Altenstadt 2002, ISBN 3-00-009869-0 (catalog for the exhibition of the same name November 9, 2002 to August 31, 2003 Museum der Weltkulturen Frankfurt / M.)
  • Major works of ethnology (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 380). Kröner, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-520-38001-3 (together with Karl-Heinz Kohl ).
  • Cultures of the North American Indians . Könemann, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-8290-0500-8
  • Technology and Ergology in Ethnology, Vol. 1 . 4th, completely revised edition Reimer, Berlin 1999 (together with Alfred Janata).
  • Indians and Europe . Rader, Aachen 1987 (Reprint: Lincoln, NE 1999: University of Nebraska Press)

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Brief excerpts of Austrian dissertations: Humanities and social sciences , Association of Scientific Societies Austria Verlag., 1973, p. 201.
  2. ↑ Sylvia S. Kasprycki: The things of faith. Menominees and Missionaries in Cultural Dialogue, 1830-1880 LIT Verlag Münster, 2006, p. 322 (accordingly unpublished habilitation thesis).
personal data
SURNAME Feest, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Feest, Christian F.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ethnologist, professor of ethnology of North America
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Broumov