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Leo Frobenius
Born29 June 1873
Berlin, Germany
Died9 August 1938(1938-08-09) (aged 65)
Biganzolo, Piedmont, Italy
NationalityGerman
Scientific career
FieldsEthnology

Leo Viktor Frobenius (29 June 1873 – 9 August 1938) was a German self-taught ethnologist and archaeologist and a major figure in German ethnography.

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Leo Frobenius

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Leo Viktor Frobenius (29 June 1873 – 9 August 1938) was a German self-taught ethnologist and archaeologist and a major figure in German ethnography. He...

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Frobenius

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Frobenius is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (1849–1917), mathematician Frobenius algebra Frobenius endomorphism...

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Cultural diffusion

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anthropology and cultural geography, cultural diffusion, as conceptualized by Leo Frobenius in his 1897/98 publication Der westafrikanische Kulturkreis, is the...

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Bronze Head from Ife

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prompted by Leo Frobenius, were successfully promulgated in 1938, when legislation was enacted by the colonial authorities. Frobenius was a German ethnologist...

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Impluvium

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(1): 21–27. doi:10.1080/00369222308734352. Kalaous, Milan (1970). "Leo Frobenius' Atlantic Theory: A Reconsideration". Paideuma: Mitteilungen zur Kulturkunde:...

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Cultural enrichment

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is synonymous with ethnic pluralism Cultural diffusion, a concept by Leo Frobenius where culture is shared between individuals Cultural diplomacy, a type...

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Adolf Ellegard Jensen

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acquainted with Leo Frobenius and became his faithful disciple. As a member of the Institute for Cultural Morphology founded by Frobenius and known today...

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Sympathetic magic

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sanctuary of "timeless principle", were acted upon by rite. In 1933, Leo Frobenius, discussing cave paintings in North Africa, pointed out that many of...

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Joseph Campbell

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life." That's the man who never followed his bliss. The anthropologist Leo Frobenius and his disciple Adolf Ellegard Jensen were important to Campbell's...

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Central Powers

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uprising in East Africa. One of the unsuccessful expeditions was led by Leo Frobenius, a celebrated ethnographer and personal friend of Kaiser Wilhelm II...

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Fourth German Inner Africa Research Expedition

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Cameroon between 1910 and 1912 under the leadership of ethnographer Leo Frobenius. Frobenius carried out archaeological excavations at the ancient Yoruba city...

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Dema Deity

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ethnologist who furthered the theory of Cultural Morphology founded by Leo Frobenius. The term dema comes from the Marind people of southwest Papua and has...

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Tammari people

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and funerals. Leo Frobenius: German anthropologist and archaeologist (1873–1938) whose work is in the archives of the Institute Frobenius associated with...

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Ninth German Inner Africa Research Expedition

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The Ninth German Inner Africa Research Expedition was led by Leo Frobenius to Southern Africa between August 1928 and March 1930. It visited modern-day...

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The Cantos

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the seventeenth century, and details from Africa he had obtained from Leo Frobenius. The Cantos can appear on first reading to be chaotic or structureless...

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Little Red Riding Hood

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ISBN 0-252-01549-5. See pages 26–32 The oldest source is the tale Rova in: Leo Frobenius, Volksmärchen und Volksdichtungen Afrikas / Band III, Jena 1921: 126–129...

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Frobenius Institute

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The Frobenius Institute (Frobenius-Institut; originally: Forschungsinstitut für Kulturmorphologie) is Germany's oldest anthropological research institute...

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Human cannibalism

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successful attack on an enemy village. According to German ethnologist Leo Frobenius, children captured by Songye slave raiders in the Central African Kasaï...

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German Inner Africa Research Expeditions

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were led by the ethnologist Leo Frobenius and they are sometimes referred to as the Frobenius Expeditions. Leo Frobenius was a self-taught German ethnologist...

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Ife Empire

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the Ife Empire had Paved flooring, even as far as modern-day Togo. Leo Frobenius, a 20th-century archeologist who visited Nigeria, also noted that the...

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Mossi people

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Frobenius' report and his discovery of an industrious people and what some would describe as a glorious past interested W.E.B. Du Bois in Frobenius'...

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Diffusion of innovations

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Austrian anthropologists and geographers such as Friedrich Ratzel and Leo Frobenius. The study of diffusion of innovations took off in the subfield of rural...

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Child cannibalism

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otherwise sold to nearby cannibals for consumption. The German ethnologist Leo Frobenius recorded that young children caught in raids were "skewered on long...

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Religion in Africa

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doi:10.4135/9781452231648, ISBN 9780761930471, retrieved 2019-11-01 Leo Frobenius on African History, Art, and Culture: An Anthology, 2007 ISBN 1-55876-425-9...

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Ethnography

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Donck (c. 1618–1655) Mary Douglas (1921–2007) Raymond Firth (1901–2002) Leo Frobenius (1873–1938) Thor Heyerdahl (1914–2002) Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)...

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