Christian Feest
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Christian Feest is an Austrian ethnologist and ethnohistorian.
Feest specialized in the Native Americans
of the Northeast
and in the Native American
anthropology of art
. He did pioneer work on European-Native American contact and on the history of museum collections.
Feest studied at the University of Vienna
in the 1960s. He started publishing articles in 1964. His 1969 dissertation was "Viginia Algonkin, 1570-1703." He worked at the Museum für Völkerkunde in Vienna and at the university. He investigated the social and cultural aspects of Native American drinking for his Habilitationsschrift, titled Trinken und Trinkgewohnheiten im indianischen Nordamerika (1980).
Feest was professor of the ethnology of indigenous America at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main from 1993 to 2004. Since then has served as director of the Museum für Völkerkunde (Museum of Ethnology) in Vienna.
He has two prominent brothers, Gerhard Gleich
and Johannes Feest
. Feest is an editor of the European Review of Native American Studies
Feest specialized in the Native Americans
Indigenous peoples of the Americas
The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans...
of the Northeast
Northeastern United States
The Northeastern United States is a region of the United States as defined by the United States Census Bureau.-Composition:The region comprises nine states: the New England states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont; and the Mid-Atlantic states of New...
and in the Native American
Indigenous peoples of the Americas
The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans...
anthropology of art
Anthropology of art
-History:Franz Boas , one of the pioneers of modern anthropology, conducted many field studies of the arts, helping create a foundation to the field.-Bibliography:...
. He did pioneer work on European-Native American contact and on the history of museum collections.
Feest studied at the University of Vienna
University of Vienna
The University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world...
in the 1960s. He started publishing articles in 1964. His 1969 dissertation was "Viginia Algonkin, 1570-1703." He worked at the Museum für Völkerkunde in Vienna and at the university. He investigated the social and cultural aspects of Native American drinking for his Habilitationsschrift, titled Trinken und Trinkgewohnheiten im indianischen Nordamerika (1980).
Feest was professor of the ethnology of indigenous America at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main from 1993 to 2004. Since then has served as director of the Museum für Völkerkunde (Museum of Ethnology) in Vienna.
He has two prominent brothers, Gerhard Gleich
Gerhard Gleich
Gerhard Gleich is an artist and professor at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna, Austria.thumb| Gerhard Gleich and his polyester sculpture...
and Johannes Feest
Johannes Feest
Johannes Feest is a penologist and sociologist of law.He studied law in Vienna and Munich and sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1974 until his retirement in 2005 he was professor of criminal law at the University of Bremen...
. Feest is an editor of the European Review of Native American Studies
Publications (selected)
in:Festschrift
- Ding, Bild, Wissen. Ergebnisse und Perspektiven nordamerikanischer Forschung in Frankfurt am Main, Cora Bender et alii, eds, Cologne: Rüdige Köppe, 2005 ( with a Feest bibliography).