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FROM THE HEROIC LIFE TO THE EROTIC DIARY: ON THE DEATHS OF CURT NIMUENDAJÚ

Abstract

This article recovers the events that led to the mysterious death of Curt Nimuendajú (1883-1945), analysing them in light of the personal dimensions of ethnographic research and of erotic identity and subjectivity in anthropological field work.

Keywords:
Curt Nimuendajú; Ethnography; Fieldwork; Brazilian Anthropology; Ticuna Indians

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