biography
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Morán Bardón, César
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pronunciation:
[moran bah(r)dohn]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1882–1951)
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| biography:
| Folklorist, archaeologist, and ethnographer, born in Rosales, León, NWC Spain. He studied philosophy at the Colegio Seminario de los Agustinos in Valladolid, and got to know the ethnologico-artistic museum of the convent. He studied theology in La Vid (Burgos) and Talavera de la Reina. Later he became a professor at the Colegio de Calatrava (Salamanca), where he achieved his vocation for archaeology and ethnography, carried out research, and published most of his work. He had no specific university training for the subject, but his self-instruction was rigorous and effective. He had direct contact with the greatest national and foreign anthropologists of his time, and his library held the best books on archaeology and folklore in the principal European languages, above all in French. His own approach to the subject was methodical and well-planned, and the extent of the areas he covered depended on the form of transport available to him: his own two feet, mule, motorcycle, train, or bus. Salamanca, León and Zamora, and Portugal and Morocco were three concentric circles of interest he outlined for his research and about which he wrote. His Poesía popular salmantina, Por Tierras de León, and Por Tierras de Zamora, among others, received mixed critical reviews. |
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