Edgardo C Krebs
Biographic Data
| ID | 793203 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edgardo C Krebs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edgardo C |
| FAMILY NAME | Krebs |
| SIGNATURE | KREBS E C |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Popularizing Anthropology, Combating Racism: Alfred Métraux at The Unesco Courier
On 18 May 1945 the Swiss-born ethnographer Alfred Métraux (1902–1964) wrote the following letter to his wife, Rhoda, from Tübingen, Germany: My darling, This afternoon I have been deeply shaken by the sight of a group of Jewish girls who were coming back from one of the death factories — Auschwitz. How to describe them? Imagine corpses who had emerged from the grave. There was around these ambulating skeletons something out of this world. A woman…
Jorge Luis Borges and Alfred Métraux: Disagreements, affinities
Missing from scholarly studies of Borges' work are substantial analyses of his interest in anthropology and the way it found carefully meditated expression in his essays and fiction. The common thread was a concern with some of the central subjects of anthropological theory: the possibilities of symbols and language to represent the world, categories of thought, systems of classification and the risks of translation. Alfred Métraux arrived in Arg…
Jorge Luis Borges and Alfred Métraux: Disagreements, affinities
Missing from scholarly studies of Borges' work are substantial analyses of his interest in anthropology and the way it found carefully meditated expression in his essays and fiction. The common thread was a concern with some of the central subjects of anthropological theory: the possibilities of symbols and language to represent the world, categories of thought, systems of classification and the risks of translation. Alfred Métraux arrived in Arg…
Popularizing Anthropology, Combating Racism: Alfred Métraux at The Unesco Courier
On 18 May 1945 the Swiss-born ethnographer Alfred Métraux (1902–1964) wrote the following letter to his wife, Rhoda, from Tübingen, Germany: My darling, This afternoon I have been deeply shaken by the sight of a group of Jewish girls who were coming back from one of the death factories — Auschwitz. How to describe them? Imagine corpses who had emerged from the grave. There was around these ambulating skeletons something out of this world. A woman…
Jorge Luis Borges and Alfred Métraux: Disagreements, affinities
Missing from scholarly studies of Borges' work are substantial analyses of his interest in anthropology and the way it found carefully meditated expression in his essays and fiction. The common thread was a concern with some of the central subjects of anthropological theory: the possibilities of symbols and language to represent the world, categories of thought, systems of classification and the risks of translation. Alfred Métraux arrived in Arg…
Art (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Adversarial system (1 works) · Anarchism and Radical Politics (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Argentine historical studies (1 works) · Art history (1 works)