Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff

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Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff (born as Erasmus Gerhard Reichel; born March 6, 1912 in Salzburg ; † May 17, 1994 in Bogotá ) was an anthropologist who researched with the Tucano Indians in north-west Amazonia ( Colombia ) for almost 30 years . He was jointly responsible for the transmission of the language and the customs and their analysis.

biography

Reichel was the son of the painter Carl Anton Reichel and his wife Hilde Konstanze Dolmatoff. He spent his childhood in the so-called Edelhof in Micheldorf in Upper Austria's Kremstal. He attended grammar school in Kremsmünster Abbey , Linz and Vienna. He then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and at the École du Louvre and the Faculté des Lettres of the Sorbonne in Paris. In 2012, Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo found out that he had been a member of the SS during his time in Austria . In 1939 Reichel emigrated to Colombia, where he changed his name to Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff. In 1941 he took part in the first ethnological field study and in 1957 together with his wife Alicia Dussán founded the first chair for anthropology in Latin America at the Universidad de Cartagena . In 1963 they founded the Department of Anthropology at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá . Reichel-Dolmatoff was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1968 and a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1976 .

A special concern of his was to make the intellectual achievements of the Indians familiar to a larger audience and to "save the dignity of the Colombian Indians".

literature

  • Life and work of the Austro-Colombian anthropologist Gerardo Reichel Dolmatoff (1912–1994) taking into account early and multicultural influences as well as national scientific factors and their international perspective (MA 18 - WI / 942/97 - Viena, Austria) Mag. Robert Foltyn, Vienna 1998
  • People of Aritama ( ISBN 0-415-33045-9 )
  • Land of the Elder Brothers ( ISBN 958-638-323-7 )
  • Recent Advances in the Archeology of the Northern Andes ( ISBN 0-917956-90-7 )
  • Rainforest Shamans: Essays on the Tukano Indians of the Northwest Amazon ( ISBN 0-9527302-4-3 )
  • Yurupari: Studies of an Amazonian Foundation Myth ( ISBN 0-945454-08-2 )
  • The Forest Within: The World-view of the Tukano Amazonian Indians ( ISBN 0-9527302-0-0 )
  • Indians of Colombia: Experience and Cognition ( ISBN 958-9138-68-3 )
  • The Shaman and the Jaguar: A Study of Narcotic Drugs Among the Indians of Colombia ( ISBN 0-87722-038-7 )
  • Amazonian Cosmos: The Sexual and Religious Symbolism of the Tukano Indians ( ISBN 0-226-70732-6 )
  • Colombia ( Ancient Peoples and Places )
  • David García-Rodriguez: On the institutionalization of anthropology in Colombia: The role of the Austrian Reichel-Dolmatoff . 2005, dissertation in history
  • Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo: Biographical Archeology: The Nazi Roots of Erasmus Reichel, life in Austria (1912-1933) . In: Memorias: Revista Digital de Historia y Arqueología desde el Caribe versión On-line ISSN  1794-8886 . 2012, n.18, pp. 1-21. ( online )
  • Gerhard Drekonja-Kornat : G. Reichel-Dolmatoff - Crecer en Europa en tiempos violentos . In: Antípoda (Universidad de los Andes), enero-April 2017, no.27.
  • Gerhard Drekonja-Kornat : Las dos vidas de Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff . In: Iberoamericana (Berlin), julio de 2017, no.65.
  • Gerhard Drekonja-Kornat : The silence of the men in Bogotá . In: Merkur (Berlin), February 2017, no.813.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo: Arqueología Biográfica: Las raíces Nazis de Erasmus Reichel, la vida en Austria (1912–1933) . In: Memorias: Revista Digital de Historia y Arqueología desde el Caribe . No. 18 , ISSN  1794-8886 , p. 1–21 ( org.co [accessed January 1, 2016]).
personal data
SURNAME Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reichel, Erasmus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Colombian anthropologist with the Tokanoan tribes in the western Amazon
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1994
Place of death Bogotá