Berthold Laufer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Berthold Laufer was a German anthropologist and historical geographer with an expertise in East Asian languages. The American Museum of Natural History calls him, "one of the most distinguished sinologists of his generation."
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Published Works
- Ethnology of the Mayas of southern and central British Honduras (143)
- Sino-iranica: Chinese Contributions To The History Of Civilization In Ancient Iran, With Special Reference To The History Of Cultivated Plants And Products (1922) (89)
- Archaeological investigations in the southern Cayo district, British Honduras (1931) (72)
- Roentgenologic studies of Egyptian and Peruvian mummies (1931) (43)
- Asia: The Foote Collection of Indian Prehistoric and Protohistoric Antiquities. Madras Government Museum. Catalogue raisonné. Robbert Bruce Foote (1918) (27)
- Loan-Words in Tibetan (26)
- The American plant migration. (1938) (26)
- ORIGIN OF THE WORD SHAMAN (1917) (26)
- Jade: a study in Chinese archaeology and religion (26)
- Report on the excavation of the "A" cemetery at Kish, Mesopotamia. By Ernest Mackay ; with preface by Stephen Langdon. 20 plates. Field Museum-Oxford University joint expedition. Berthold Laufer --, editor. (23)
- Origin of Tibetan Writing (22)
- Tobacco and its use in Asia (22)
- Arabic and Chinese Trade in Walrus and Narwhal Ivory (20)
- The giraffe in history and art (20)
- A Sumerian Palace and the "A" cemetery at Kish, Mesopotamia. by Ernest Mackay ; with preface by Stephen Langdon. -- Berthold Laufer --, editor. (20)
- The Name China (19)
- Methods and Principles: Culture and Ethnology. Robert H. Lowie. Douglas C. McMurtrie (1918) (18)
- The relations of the Chinese to the Philippine Islands (18)
- THE EARLY HISTORY OF FELT (1930) (17)
- Report on excavations at Jemdet Nasr, Iraq / (1931) (17)
- A correlation of the Mayan and European calendars (17)
- The American Plant Migration. Part I: The Potato (1939) (16)
- Insect-musicians and cricket champions of China (15)
- Roentgenologic studies of Egyptian and Peruvian mummies / by Roy L. Moodie -- ; Berthold Laufer --, editor. (1931) (15)
- The Si-hia language : a study in Indo-Chinese philology (14)
- Archaeological explorations in Peru. (1937) (14)
- Historical jottings on amber in Asia (11)
- Chinese Clay Figures (10)
- Melanesian shell money in Field Museum collections (10)
- Inspirational Dreams in Eastern Asia (1931) (9)
- Supplementary Notes On Walrus and Narwhal Ivory (8)
- The home of an Eastern clan (7)
- The Application of the Tibetan Sexagenary Cycle (7)
- The prehistory of aviation (7)
- Columbus and Cathay, and the Meaning of America to the Orientalist (1931) (7)
- The Vigesimal and Decimal Systems in the Ainu Numerals: With Some Remarks on Ainu Phonology (7)
- Restoration of ancient bronzes and cure of malignant patina / by Henry W. Nichols -- foreword by Berthold Laufer -- Oliver C. Farrington -- editor. (7)
- Some Fundamental Ideas of Chinese Culture (7)
- Asbestos and Salamander (6)
- Archaeology of Santa Marta, Colombia; the Tairona culture. -- / by J. Alden Mason -- (1931) (6)
- The solar year of the Mayas at Quirigua, Guatemala (1931) (6)
- Christian art in China (1939) (5)
- Ivory in China (5)
- The Story of the Pinna and the Syrian Lamb (1915) (5)
- The Tanala, a hill tribe of Madagascar, by Ralph Linton -- Marshall Field expedition to Madagascar, 1926; 35 text-figures. Berthold Laufer -- editor. (1933) (5)
- Archaic chinese jades : collected in china by A.W. Bahr, now in Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (5)
- Decorative art of New Guinea (5)
- Was Odoric of Pordenone Ever in Tibet (5)
- Multiple births among the chinese (4)
- The decorative art of the Amur tribes (3)
- A Chinese-Hebrew Manuscript, a New Source for the History of the Chinese Jews (1930) (3)
- Tobacco in New Guinea: An Epilogue (1931) (3)
- The Beginnings of Porcelain in China (3)
- The Chinese Exhibition (1918) (3)
- The Discovery of a Lost Book (3)
- Archaeology of Santa Marta, Colombia; (1940) (3)
- Hindu Achievements in Exact Science (1919) (3)
- The Eskimo Screw as a Culture-Historical Problem (1915) (3)
- The Prehistory of Television (1928) (2)
- The races of mankind: an introduction to Chauncey Keep Memorial Hall / by Henry Field -- Preface by Berthold Laufer -- Introduction by Sir Arthur Keith -- 9 plates in photogravure and 1 plan of the Hall. (1933) (2)
- : The Turquois. A Study of Its History, Mineralogy, Geology, Ethnology, Archeology, Mythology, Folklore, and Technology . Joseph E. Pogue. (1916) (2)
- On the Possible Oriental Origin of Our Word Booze (2)
- Agate, physical properties and origin / (2)
- Sex transformation and hermaphrodites in China (1920) (2)
- The Si-Hia Language (2)
- The Reindeer Once More (1920) (2)
- Confucius and his portraits (2)
- The Indian tribes of the Chicago region (2)
- The Chinese Madonna in the Field Museum. (2)
- PRELIMINARY NOTES ON EXPLORATIONS AMONG THE AMOOR TRIBES1 (1900) (2)
- The Lemon in China and Elsewhere (1934) (2)
- A THEORY OF THE ORIGIN OF CHINESE WRITING1 (1907) (2)
- The domestication of the cormorant in China and Japan / by Berthold Laufer, Curator, Department of Anthropology. 4 plates in photogravure. (1931) (2)
- Introduction of tobacco into Europe / by Berthold Laufer, Curator of Anthropology. (2)
- Decorative art of New Guinea, incised designs. Berthold Laufer, ed. (2)
- PETROGLYPHS ON THE AMOOR1 (1899) (1)
- Five Newly Discovered Bas-Reliefs of the Han Period (1)
- Origin of Our Dances of Death. (1)
- Three Etruscan painted sarcophagi / by F.B. Tarbell -- ; Berthold Laufer -- (1)
- Arabs of central Iraq (1935) (1)
- Methods in the Study of Domestications (1927) (1)
- Prehistoric man, Hall of the Stone Age of the Old World / by Henry Field, Assistant Curator of Physical Anthropology. Foreword by Berthold Laufer -- 8 plates in photogravure and 1 map. (1933) (1)
- Report on excavations at Jemdet Nasr, Iraq / by Ernest Mackay; with preface by Stephen Langdon; 18 plates. Field Museum-Oxford University joint expedition. Berthold Laufer --, editor (1931) (1)
- The Ovimbundu of Angola / by Wilfrid D. Hambly --. Frederick H. Rawson-Field Museum Ethnological Expedition to West Africa, 1929-30. 84 plates in photogravure and 1 map. Berthold Laufer -- editor. (1934) (1)
- [Book Review: Dogs of China and Japan in Nature and Art V. W. F. Collier] (1)
- The prefix a- in the Indo-Chinese Languages (1915) (1)
- Rye in the Far East and the Asiatic Origin of Our Word Series "Rye" (1934) (1)
- Japanese sword-mounts in the collections of Field Museum / by Helen C. Gunsaulus, assistant curator of Japanese ethnology, 61 plates. Berthold Laufer, Curator of Anthropology. (1)
- Insect-musicians and cricket champions of China / by Berthold Laufer, Curator of Anthropology. 12 plates in photogravure. (1)
- Chinese pottery in the Philippines, by Fay-Cooper Cole, with postscript by Berthold Laufer. George A. Dorsey -- (1)
- PRINCIPLES AND METHODS: Are We Civilized? Human Culture in Perspective. Robert H. Lowie (1930) (1)
- The Sexagenary Cycle Once More (1)
- The Introduction of Vaccination Into the Far East. (1)
- Agate : physical properties and origin, archaeology and folk-lore / By Oliver C. Farrington, Curator of Geology, [and] Berthold Laufer, Curator of Anthropology. (1)
- Asia: Catalogue of the Prehistoric Antiquities from Ādichandllūr and Perumbāir. Madras Government Museum. Alexander Rea (1918) (1)
- The American plant migration. The potato. / by Berthold Laufer, Late Curator, Dept. of Anthropology. Prepared for publication by C. Martin Wilbur, Curator, Chinese Archaeology and Ethnology. (1938) (1)
- Tobacco and its use in Asia / by Berthold Laufer, Curator of Anthropology. (1)
- Serpent worship in Africa / by Wilfrid D. Hambly, Assistant Curator of African Ethnology. 8 plates in photogravure and 1 map. Berthold Laufer, Curator, Department of Anthropology, editor. (1931) (0)
- The beginnings of porcelain in China, by Berthold Laufer... with a technical report by H.W. Nichols... Twelve plates and two text-figures... (0)
- Archaeological explorations in Peru. by A.L. Kroeber -- ; Berthold Laufer --, editor. (0)
- East And West. (1933) (0)
- Two Chinese Imperial Jades (0)
- ASIA: Indian Shipping. A History of the Sea‐Borne Trade and Maritime Activity of the Indians from the Earliest Times. Radhakumud Mookerji (1917) (0)
- Plate Armour in America (0)
- T'ang, Sung and Yüan paintings belonging to various Chinese collectors (0)
- The Chinese gateway (0)
- Totemic Traces among the Indo-Chinese (1917) (0)
- The Chinese Battle of the Fishes (With Illustration). (0)
- Confucius and His Portraits, Illustrated, (Concluded). (0)
- The decorative art of the Amur tribes / By Berthold Laufer (0)
- Korean Buddhism. History—Condition—Art (0)
- King Tsing, the Author of the Nestorian Inscription. (0)
- Noted Porcelains of Successive Dynasties (1932) (0)
- The Praying Mantis in Chinese Folklore (Illustrated). (0)
- Notes on turquois in the East (0)
- Tobacco / by B. Laufer, et al. (0)
- Chinese baskets, by Berthold Laufer. (0)
- Johann Jacob Meyer (1916) (0)
- The Jonah Legend in India. (0)
- Japan, as represented in Field Museum of Natural History / by Helen C. Gunsaulus, Assistant Curator of Japanese Ethnology. (0)
- ASIA: The Turks of Central Asia in History and at the Present Day (1919) (0)
- China and the discovery of America (1934) (0)
- Tobacco and its use in Africa / by Berthold Laufer, Wilfrid D. Hambly, and Ralph Linton; 6 plates in photogravure. (0)
- Notes on turquois in the East / by Berthold Laufer -- (0)
- The Hopewell mound group of Ohio / By Warren K. Moorehead -- 48 plates and 68 text-figures. Berthold Laufer -- (0)
- A Chinese Madonna (0)
- A Defender of the Faith and his Miracles. (1932) (0)
- Confucius and His Portraits (lllustrated). (0)
- The Stanzas of Bharata (1912) (0)
- Ethnology of Polynesia and Micronesia : Hall F (ground floor) (0)
- Chinese clay figures. By Berthold Laufer (0)
- Ivory in China / by Berthold Laufer, Curator of Anthropology. (0)
- Moccasins: Reply to Dr. Hatt (1918) (0)
- Geophagy / by Berthold Laufer, Curator, Department of Anthropology. (0)
- The “Flying Gallop” in Art (0)
- ASIA: Social Organization of the Manchus, a Study of the Manchu Clan Organization. S. M. Shirokogoroff, anthropologist of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences at Petrograd (1924) (0)
- Japanese collections : Frank W. Gunsaulus Hall / by Helen C. Gunsaulus, Assistant Curator of Japanese Ethnology (0)
- Ostrich Egg-Shell Cups from Mesopotamia. (0)
- The Jan Kleykamp Collection : Chinese and Japanese paintings (0)
- The giraffe in history and art / by Berthold Laufer, Curator of Anthropology. 9 plates in photogravure, 23 text-figures, and 1 vignette. (0)
- Fish Symbols in China (Illustrated). (0)
- Chinese Pigeon Whistles (0)
- The decorative art of the Amur tribes. Memoirs of the AMNH ; v. 7, [pt.] 1 (0)
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