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Subject:
Gerbrands, A. A (Adrianus Alexander) 1917- Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Netherlands
Date:
1990
Notes:
Adrian Gerbrands, Dutch anthropologist at the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde in Leiden, came under the tutelage of P. L. J. Vandenhoute and Frans Olbrechts early in his career in the late 1940s. His 1956 dissertation, published as Art as an element of culture, especially in Negro-Africa, has become a classic in the literature of African art and demonstrates Gerbrands' interest in ethno-aesthetics--unusual at the time. He also had a serious interest in ethnographic films, did fieldwork in New Guinea, and in 1966 was appointed professor of anthropology at Leiden University.
