biography
pronunciation:
[bastian]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1826–1905)
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| biography:
| Ethnologist, born in Bremen, NW Germany. He studied at Berlin, Heidelberg, Prague, Jena, and Würzburg, and travelled widely, collecting material for his ethnological studies in most continents. He is best known for his theory that variations in folk cultures could be traced back to the effects of local geographical conditions on a basic set of elementary ideas (Elementargedanken) common to mankind. |
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