Gustaaf Verswijver

Biographic Data

ID3671561
NAMEGustaaf Verswijver
GIVEN NAMESGustaaf
FAMILY NAMEVerswijver
SIGNATUREVERSWIJVER G
AFFILIATIONSGustaaf Verswijver is Curator at the Ethnography Division of the Royal Museum for Central Africa (Tervuren, Belgium). He has conducted field research among the East African pastoralists since 1994.
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS13
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1988
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
H-INDEX1

  • Removable Hair Caps of Karamoja (Uganda)

    Gustaaf VerswijverARTICLEAfrican Arts2010Cited by: 1

    December 01 2010 Removable Hair Caps of Karamoja (Uganda) Gustaaf Verswijver Gustaaf Verswijver Gustaaf Verswijver is Curator at the Ethnography Division of the Royal Museum for Central Africa (Tervuren, Belgium). He has conducted field research among the East African pastoralists since 1994. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Gustaaf Verswijver Gustaaf Ver…

  • The vitality of Karamojong religion. Dying tradition or living faith? by Knighton, Ben

    Open AccessGustaaf VerswijverARTICLESocial Anthropology2008

  • Masterpieces from Central Africa

    Alisa Lagamma, Gustaaf Verswijver et al.ARTICLEAfrican Arts1999

  • Hidden Treasures of the Tervuren Museum

    Gustaaf VerswijverARTICLEAfrican Arts1995

    Le Musee de Tervuren (Belgique) fut cree en 1897-1898 afin de faire connaitre aux Belges non seulement le Zaire mais aussi l'Afrique. Les missions successives rapporterent divers et nombreux objets jusqu'a ce que leurs prix augmentent et que les collections se trouvent entre les mains de prives. Aujourd'hui, une exposition (« Les tresors caches du Musee de Tervuren ») montre 250 objets d'Afrique centrale. Extraits du catalogue revelant une coupe …

  • The Club-Fighters of the Amazon

    Laura Rival, Gustaaf VerswijverARTICLEMan1994Cited by: 12

    This article examines the nature of warfare among the Kaiapó Indians of central Brazil, arguing against the common portrayal of Amazonian warfare as ritualized and non-lethal. Rival and Verswijver detail the Kaiapó's strategic use of violence, including raids, ambushes, and protracted campaigns aimed at territorial expansion and the capture of women and children. They analyze the social and political factors driving these conflicts, emphasizing t…

  • Bresil Central. Chants et danses des Indiens Kaiapo

    Dale A Olsen, Laurent Aubert et al.ARTICLEEthnomusicology1991

  • Migration um zu überleben

    Open AccessGustaaf VerswijverARTICLEGeographica Helvetica1988

    In the present paper, it is shown how the Kaiapó Indians of Central Brazil traditionally managed to survive in an ecologically unfavorable habitat, and such while maintaining village populations of no less than 3000 indians. It is also shown how the more or less permanent contacts with our society have affected their traditional pattern of constant movement between a series of villages spread over a huge area

  • Chants individuels et chants collectifs chez les Kaiapó du Brésil Central

    Gustaaf VerswijverARTICLECahiers de musiques traditionnelles1988

    Il y a actuellement plus de trois milles Indiens Kaiapo etablis dans treize villages. Les Kaiapo appartiennent a la branche septentrionale du groupe linguistique Ge. Traditionnellement, les Ge du nord occupaient une vaste region au Bresil central, et ils partagent de nombreux traits sociaux et linguistiques. Les Kaiapo connaissent une panoplie de chants, mais peu d’anthropologues se sont interesses jusqu’ici a leur musique, voire meme a celle des…