Sunday, July 7, 2013

Indian Tribes of Northern Mato Grosso, Brazil


Oberg, Kalervo, Indian Tribes of Northern Mato Grosso, Brazil, Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1953.

Reviewed in American Anthropologist © 1954.

Kalervo Oberg (1901–1973) was a world-renowned anthropologist. Oberg was dedicated to fieldwork, serving as a civil servant and a teacher. He traveled the world and wrote about these experiences so others could enjoy them as well. Born to Finnish parents in British Columbia, Canada, Oberg is perhaps best known for applying the term culture shock to all people who travel abroad into new cultures and for his doctoral dissertation, The Social Economy of the Tlingit Indians of Alaska.

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