Biblioteca Digital Curt Nimuendajú

[…] I offer the example of Curt Nimuendaju, who did an enormous amount of ethnographic fieldwork in Brazil, on many tribes taking in all aspects of their cultural and social life, during the first half of this century. He also made collections. The value he placed on material culture is evident in his published works and in these collections — even though he never studied them per se. The difficulties of travel and of the transport of these collections were made quite explicit in his correspondence. I have no doubt but that had Nimuendaju been a curator, he would have been a good one, and in large measure this would be because he would have been capable of appreciating the considerable personal effort that the making of good collections demands. […]

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