Rafael Karsten

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Rafael Karsten around 1925

Sigfrid Rafael Karsten (born August 16, 1879 in Koivulahti , Finland , † February 21, 1956 in Helsinki ) was a Finnish-Swedish sociologist , ethnologist and religious historian . Karsten was a student of Edward Westermarck . He received his doctorate in the same year as his fellow student Gunnar Landtman on The Origin of Worship (1905).

Life

Rafael Karsten went on several field research trips to the Indians of South America. He used the ethnographic material he had collected in a number of books and monographs on religious traditions in South America, in particular from Ecuador , Brazil (on the upper Amazon ), Peru and Bolivia .

Important ethnographic contributions are his works on blood revenge, war and victory celebrations among the Jivaro of eastern Ecuador ( revenge Blood, was, and victory feasts among the Jibaro Indians of eastern Ecuador , 1923) and the civilization of the South American Indians with a focus on their magic und Religion ( The Civilization of the South American Indians: with special reference to magic and religion , 1926).

Karsten also researched the religion of the Skolt seeds from Petschenga ( Petsamo in Finnish ), which at that time belonged to Finland.

Works

  • The Origin of Worship (1905)
  • Contributions to the Sociology of the Indian Tribes of Ecuador. Three essays. Subscription 1920.
  • Blood revenge, war, and victory feasts among the Jibaro Indians of eastern Ecuador / Rafael Karsten. - Washington: Gov. Print. Off., 1923
  • The Civilization of the South American Indians: with special reference to magic and religion. With a Preface by Dr. Edward Westermarck. / Rafael Karsten. - London, 1926 (Subjects: Indian mythology - South America. Indians of South America - Social life and customs.)
  • Huvudjaegare och Soldyrkare i South America. Stockholm & Helsingfors, Bokfoerlaget Natur och Kultur, 1929.
  • Ceremonial games of the South American Indians / Rafael Karsten. - Helsingfors: Akad. Buchh. [u. a.], 1930
  • Indian tribes of the Argentine and Bolivian Chaco: ethnological studies / Rafael Karsten. - Helsingfors: Akad. Buchh. [u. a.], 1932
  • Notes on South American arrow-poison / Rafael Karsten. - Helsingfors: Akad. Bokh. [u. a.], 1934
  • The head-hunters of Western Amazonas: the life and culture of the Jibaro Indians of eastern Ecuador and Peru / Rafael Karsten. - Helsingfors: Akad. Bokh. [u. a.], 1935
  • The Origins of Religion. London Kegan Paul, Trench & Co 1935
  • Kaarle Leopold Krohn: minnesteckning / Rafael Karsten. - Helsingfors, 1936
  • The ancient Peruvian Inca Empire and its culture / Rafael Karsten. - Leipzig: Brockhaus, [1949] ( Inkariket och dess culture i det forna Peru , Ger .)
  • A totalitarian state of the past: the civilization of the Inca empire in ancient Peru / Rafael Karsten. - Helsingfors: Acad. Bookstore [u. a.], 1949
  • Samefolkets religion: de nordiska lapparnas hedniska tro och kult i religionshistorisk belysning. Helsingfors, 1952
  • Some critical remarks on ethnological field-research in South America / Rafael Karsten. - Helsingfors: Akad. Bokh. [u. a.], 1954
  • The religion of the Samek: ancient beliefs and cults of the Scandinavian and Finnish Lapps / Rafael Karsten. - Leiden: Brill, 1955
  • Studies in the religion of the South-American Indians east of the Andes / Rafael Karsten. Helsinki: Soc. Scientiarum Fennica, 1964
  • The Toba Indians of the Bolivian Gran Chaco. (= Acta Academiae Aboensis. Humaniora 4) Anthropological Publications 1967

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SURNAME Karsten, Rafael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karsten, Sigfrid Rafael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish sociologist, ethnologist and historian of religion
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Koivulahti , Finland
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1956
Place of death Helsinki