biography
| name: |
Batista i Roca, Josep Maria
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pronunciation:
[bateesta ee roka]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1885–1978)
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| biography:
| Catalan historian, born in Barcelona, NE Spain. Also interested in etymology, folklore, and physical anthropology, he was a controversial figure in the contemporary history of Catalunya, his views on Catalunya's historical rights apparently coloured by his political opinions. His study of anthropology at Oxford (1919–20) and the award of a diploma in anthropology (1920), made him the first 20th-c Catalan to obtain a qualification in the subject from a European university. Prior to his return to Barcelona he made a tour of European ethnographic museums with a view to establishing later a Museo d'Etnografia de Catalunya. He taught at the University of Barcelona (1921–3), and until 1930 was president of the folklore section of the Centre Excursionista de Catalunya. |
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