Walter Hirschberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 161314 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Walter Hirschberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Walter |
| FAMILY NAME | Hirschberg |
| SIGNATURE | HIRSCHBERG W |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1934 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Agreeing to Disagree
The Mursi are cultivators and cattle herders who live in the Lower Omo Valley of southwestern Ethiopia and whose methods of measuring duration have so far been unaffected by contact with literate cultures. In this article it is shown how the Mursi solve the problem of relating a cycle of seasonal events to a nonintegral series of lunar months, while remaining unaware that this cycle is related, in fact, to the solar year. This analysis leads to t…
Urgeschichtliche Regenkultplätze
Literarische Besprechungen
Der Ahnencharakter des afrikanischen Schwirrholzes
The Problem of Relationship between Pygmies and Bushmen
The problem of the relationship between Pygmies and Bushmen is not yet solved. The earlier investigators contented themselves with the methods of Physical Anthropology which have predominated over all others. Father Wilhelm Schmidt, using more especially arguments based on his studies of religious history, was the pioneer of the ethnological approach. The only student to make use of linguistic evidence was Father Schebesta, who tried to establish…
Agreeing to Disagree
The Mursi are cultivators and cattle herders who live in the Lower Omo Valley of southwestern Ethiopia and whose methods of measuring duration have so far been unaffected by contact with literate cultures. In this article it is shown how the Mursi solve the problem of relating a cycle of seasonal events to a nonintegral series of lunar months, while remaining unaware that this cycle is related, in fact, to the solar year. This analysis leads to t…
Der Ahnencharakter des afrikanischen Schwirrholzes
The Problem of Relationship between Pygmies and Bushmen
The problem of the relationship between Pygmies and Bushmen is not yet solved. The earlier investigators contented themselves with the methods of Physical Anthropology which have predominated over all others. Father Wilhelm Schmidt, using more especially arguments based on his studies of religious history, was the pioneer of the ethnological approach. The only student to make use of linguistic evidence was Father Schebesta, who tried to establish…
Der Ahnencharakter des afrikanischen Schwirrholzes
Literarische Besprechungen
Urgeschichtliche Regenkultplätze
Agreeing to Disagree
The Mursi are cultivators and cattle herders who live in the Lower Omo Valley of southwestern Ethiopia and whose methods of measuring duration have so far been unaffected by contact with literate cultures. In this article it is shown how the Mursi solve the problem of relating a cycle of seasonal events to a nonintegral series of lunar months, while remaining unaware that this cycle is related, in fact, to the solar year. This analysis leads to t…
Art (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · African history and culture analysis (2 works) · Ethnology (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Anthropology (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Asian Studies and History (1 work) · Biological anthropology (1 work)