Elizabeth von Furer-Haimendorf, Betty von Fuehrer-Haimendorf, Betty Fürer-Haimendorf
Betty von Fürer-Haimendorf (1911 – 11 January 1987), born Elizabeth Barnardo, was a British ethnologist in India and Nepal. She was married to Austrian ethnologist Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf.
Early life
Elizabeth Barnardo was born in Darbhanga, British India,[1] one of the five children of Col. Frederick "Barnie" Barnardo and Violet Barnardo, of Bexhill. Her father, also born in British India, was a physician with the Indian Medical Service,[2] nephew of Irish philanthropist Thomas John Barnardo, and dean of a medical school in Calcutta before 1921.[3] Her mother died by suicide in 1942. In girlhood, Betty Barnardo was close to Patience Gray, who became a noted food writer. The two young women traveled together in central Europe in 1937.[4]
Career
Barnardo, who had trained as a nurse,[5] worked closely with her husband on documenting the tribal cultures of northern India and Nepal.[6] "No Himalayan pass was too high for her, no field site too remote," recalled a colleague in a 1987 obituary.[7] She compiled the three-volume An anthropological bibliography of South Asia (1958).[8] With her husband, she co-wrote The Reddis of the Bison hills: A study in acculturation (1945),[9] The Raj Gonds of Adilabad: A peasant culture of the Deccan (1948), and The Gonds of Andhra Pradesh: Tradition and change in an Indian tribe (1979),[10] Her diaries became an important source of her husband's 1990 memoir, Life Among Indian Tribes: the Autobiography of an Anthropologist.[11]
Personal life
In 1938, Elizabeth Barnardo married Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf. They had a son, Nicholas, born in 1946. She died in 1987, in Hyderabad.[7] The couple's papers are archived at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London.[12]
References
- ↑ An Active Life{{#if:Barnardo|, Barnardo}. Bodley Head(1963)
- ↑ Frederick Adolphus Fleming Barnardo papers (1894-1962), The National Archives.
- ↑ Dr. Frederick Barnardo. The Times(11 May 1962). Retrieved 24 October 2020.
- ↑ Fasting and Feasting: The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray{{#if:Federman|, Federman}. Chelsea Green Publishing(2017). ISBN 978-1-60358-752-5
- ↑ Betty Haimendorf: Apa Tani Films. Mandala Collections, University of Virginia. Retrieved 2020-10-24.
- ↑ Early Ethnographic Film in Britain: A Reflection on the Work of Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf. Visual Anthropology({Template:Date).
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Obituary. Anthropology Today({Template:Date).
- ↑ An anthropological bibliography of South Asia, together with a directory of recent anthropological field work. (Book, 1958) [WorldCat.org]{{#if:von Fürer-Haimendorf|, von Fürer-Haimendorf}(1958)
- ↑ The Reddis of the Bison hills: a study in acculturation{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. MacMillan(1945)
- ↑ The Gonds of Andhra Pradesh : tradition and change in an Indian tribe{{#if:Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909-1995.|, Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909-1995.}. George Allen & Unwin(1979). ISBN 0-04-301090-3
- ↑ Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf. Royal Anthropological Institute(1996). Retrieved 2020-10-24.
- ↑ Papers of Professor Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf. School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Archives, University of London; via Archives Hub.. Retrieved 2020-10-24.
External links
- "A Tribute to Christoph and Betty von Fürer-Haimendorf" (1996), a film by British anthropologist Mark Turin.
- "Betty von Furer-Haimendorf and Apatanis" (1944), a photograph of von Fürer-Haimendorf by her husband, one of several photos of her, taken 1939 to 1974, in the collection of SOAS University of London.