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The ?Auinarticle 1910 • Kaufmann, Hans & Neuse, Richard
San • Africa > Southern Africa
This account is a general source on San culture. The author, a government official stationed in the territory, has attempted to cover a wide range of culture elements and although the detail offered is slight, the number of aspects of San life gone i...Native cultures in southwest and south Africabook chapter 1934 • Lebzelter, Viktor & Neuse, Richard
San • Africa > Southern Africa
This source contains information on various aspects of the culture of several San groups, especially the !Kung and the Nogau of Epukiro. The author, who was the Curator at the Natural History Museum in Vienna, writes with a special awareness of relat...Anthropological, ethnological and ethnographic observations concerning the Heikum and Kung Bushmenarticle 1906 • Werner, H. & Neuse, Richard
San • Africa > Southern Africa
This account presents information on the physical characteristics of the Heikum San and offers additional materials on the culture of both Heikum and Kung groups. The cultural characteristics discussed include dance and music, diet, clothing, ornamen...On the religion of the Tujen of the Sining Region (Koko Nor)article 1953 • Schröder, Dominik & Neuse, Richard
Monguor • Asia > East Asia
This source, written by a missionary during his three years among the Tujen (Monguor) from 1946-1949, is a comprehensive study of Monguor religious practices and beliefs. Much of the information was obtained from two native informants. The work is di...The Marshall Islandersbook chapter 1914 • Erdland, August & Neuse, Richard
Marshallese • Oceania > Micronesia
This source is a classic example of the well organized, meticulously detailed ethnographies typical of German workers in the first part of the twentieth century. The author, a missionary, divides his study into four parts, the first of which is entit...Agriculture among the Bush Negroes of the Maroniarticle 1954 • Geijskes, D. C. & Neuse, Richard
Ndyuka • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
This article focuses on patterns and problems of agricultural and land utilization among two groups of Suriname Maroons, the Paramacca along the Maroni River, and the Ndyuka (Aucaner) mainly along the Tapanahoni River. Included is a detailed inventor...