Loria, Lamberto (1855-1913)
Lamberto Loria (1855-1913), a wealthy globetrotter who became an ethnographer and self-made anthropologist, was a key figure in the history of the discipline in Italy. He took an interest in European, particularly Italian rural contexts as well as non-European cultures whose customs he strove to understand from an evolutionary perspective. During his many travels, the most important being in British New Guinea between 1888 and 1897, he collected objects for Italian museums, took many photographs and wrote several ethnographic manuscripts. This field experience influenced his comparatism and made him aware of the importance of methods of observation and ethnographic collection.
Keywords: Folklore | Museology/museography | Evolutionism | Collectors and collections | Ethnography | Christian missions | Ethnographic expeditions and missions | British colonialism | Italy | Papua New Guinea | Comparison | Melanesian studies | Trobriand | Dobu | Collections | Ethnomethodology | Notes and Queries | Paolo Mantegazza
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“From Italy to British New Guinea and Back: The Life and (Field)work of Lamberto Loria”
Fabiana Dimpflmeier, 2019
Lamberto Loria is one of the most important Italian anthropologists of the second half of the nineteenth and the early twentieth century – and now he can be counted among the founding fathers of the discipline in Italy, both in its exotic and folk branches. Traveller, collector and (...)
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“Sob o signo de Notes and Queries on Anthropology: o trabalho de campo de Lamberto Loria na Nova Guiné Britânica”
Fabiana Dimpflmeier, 2019
Mais conhecido em Itália pelo papel que desempenhou na consolidação de uma tradição etnográfica dedicada ao próprio contexto italiano, Lamberto Loria (1855-1913) tem vindo a ser descoberto pela sua observação etnográfica da Melanésia e em particular da Papua Nova Guiné (então Nova Guiné (...)
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