Georg Pfeffer served for 1 year as lecturer and for nearly 6 years as a professor of ethnology at the Heidelberg University.
18 Facts About Georg Pfeffer
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Georg Pfeffer had done fieldwork among the Adivasis of India's central regions, and in the eastern state Odisha.
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Georg Pfeffer was a co-founder of the European Association of Social Anthropologists and had worked at various editorial positions in a few anthropological journals.
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Georg Pfeffer died at the age of 77 years after a grave illness.
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Georg Pfeffer was born on 17 January 1943 at Berlin in Germany to Karl Heinz Pfeffer and Margaret Wainman Kirby.
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Georg Pfeffer had to leave his native place because of bombing during the second world war's end.
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In 1949, the Pfeffer family shifted to Hamburg where he completed his schooling.
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When Georg Pfeffer was 16 years old, the Pfeffer family shifted to Lahore in Pakistan.
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The subjects of Georg Pfeffer's research included the study of power relations, anthropology of kinship, and anthropology of religion.
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Georg Pfeffer carried out field studies in India and Pakistan since 1968.
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Georg Pfeffer had studied the indigenous social groups and caste system of India and Pakistan.
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Georg Pfeffer had been among the people of Odisha nearly each year for a few decades.
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Peter Berger noted that Georg Pfeffer compared "worldviews and social structures" of the American, Australian and Central Indian autochthonous peoples.
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From 1993 to 1995 Georg Pfeffer was the President of the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory.
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Georg Pfeffer was interested in literature, art, music, sports, and the current political events.
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Georg Pfeffer died on 20 May 2020 at the age of 77 because of severe illness.
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Georg Pfeffer wrote 4 monographs, 93 research papers, 22 reviews, 12 serials and 13 other miscellanea.
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Some books authored by Georg Pfeffer are as follows:.