HeiderKG

Career

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Heider, Karl Gustav

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II)

Born: 1935, Northampton, Mass., U.S.A.

career:

Anthropologist, educated at Harvard (B.A. 1956, M.A. 1959) and Vienna (1957-58). Instructor in Anthropology, Harvard University 1965-66 (Ph.D. 1966).¹ Assistant Professor at Brown University, Rhode Island, 1966 onwards. Attached to the Peabody Museum of Harvard Expedition as Cultural Anthropologist, making ethnographic studies in Irian (former Dutch New Guinea).

Collecting localities:

1962. W. Irian: Grand Valley of the Balim, Central Highlands.

collections:

17 nos in Herb. Leiden [L], and in Herb. Harv. Univ. Cambr. [CGE]

literature:

(1) Author of an unpublished Ph.D. thesis: ‘The Dugum Dani. A Papuan Culture in the West New Guinea Highlands’ (1965). It would be revised as a book.

	Career Collecting localities Collections Literature
	Heider, Karl Gustav
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II)
	Born: 1935, Northampton, Mass., U.S.A.
	career: Anthropologist, educated at Harvard (B.A. 1956, M.A. 1959) and Vienna (1957-58). Instructor in Anthropology, Harvard University 1965-66 (Ph.D. 1966).¹ Assistant Professor at Brown University, Rhode Island, 1966 onwards. Attached to the Peabody Museum of Harvard Expedition as Cultural Anthropologist, making ethnographic studies in Irian (former Dutch New Guinea).
	Collecting localities: 1962. W. Irian: Grand Valley of the Balim, Central Highlands.
	collections: 17 nos in Herb. Leiden [L], and in Herb. Harv. Univ. Cambr. [CGE]
	literature: (1) Author of an unpublished Ph.D. thesis: ‘The Dugum Dani. A Papuan Culture in the West New Guinea Highlands’ (1965). It would be revised as a book.