Jan Petrus Benjamin de Josselin de Jong

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JPB de Josselin de Jong (1932)

Jan Petrus Benjamin de Josselin de Jong , often cited as JPB de Josselin de Jong, (born March 13, 1886 in Leiden , † November 15, 1964 in Zeist ) was a Dutch ethnologist specializing in Indonesia .

In 1922 he was special professor for cultural anthropology at the University of Leiden and in 1935 full professor of philosophy and literature. Before that he was a curator at the Ethnographic Museum in Leiden. He is considered the father of modern Dutch ethnology, who also dealt (critically) with the ideas of Claude Lévi-Strauss on structural anthropology in the 1940s .

He also edited texts by the Black Foot Indians in North America.

He retired in 1956 and was succeeded by his nephew Patrick Edward de Josselin de Jong (1922–1999), who received his doctorate in 1951 , until his retirement in 1987 .

Fonts

  • Blackfoot texts from the southern Peigans Blackfoot reservation, Teton County, Montana. (With the help of Black-Horse-Rider, collected and published with an English translation). J. Müller, Amsterdam, 1914.
  • Lévi-Strauss's Theory on Kinship and Marriage. EJ Brill, Leiden 1952.
  • (Ed.): Unity in diversity: Indonesia as a field of anthropological study. Foris Publications, Dordrecht, Cinnaminson 1984, ISBN 90-6765-063-3 .
  • Het huidige Negerhollandsch (teksten en woordenlijst). Danish-Dutch Archaeological Expedition to the Antilles, 1922-1923. Amsterdam, 1926.
  • Les danses des Piegan. 1912. Translated from Dutch in 2004, ISBN 2-9522532-0-X .
  • De Couvade. Amsterdam, 1922.
  • JPB de Josselin de Jong et l'anthropologie structurale. Special issue on Josselin de Jong of Deshima magazine . Université de Strasbourg, publisher: Thomas Beaufils, 2009, ISBN 978-2-35410-015-5 .

literature

  • FR Effert: JPB de Josselin de Jong, curator and archaeologist. A study of his early career (1910-1935). Center of Non-Western Studies, Leiden University, Leiden 1992, ISBN 90-73782-07-4 . Also includes: Bibliography on Josselin de Jong.

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personal data
SURNAME Josselin de Jong, Jan Petrus Benjamin de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Josselin de Jong, JPB de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Suffer
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1964
Place of death Zeist