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Carl Sofus Lumholtz

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Carl Sofus Lumholtz (23 April 1851 – 5 May 1922) was a Norwegian explorer and ethnographer, best known for his meticulous field research and ethnographic publications on indigenous cultures of Australia and Mexico. [1]

49 relations: Adventure, American Museum of Natural History, Australia, Borneo, Botany, Carl Vilhelm Hartman, Central Kalimantan, Colugo, Cora people, Dayak people, Ethnography, Exploration, Fåberg, Field research, Flying squirrel, Girringun National Park, Herbert River ringtail possum, India, Indigenous Australians, Indigenous peoples, Indonesia, James Cook University, La Gran Chichimeca, Lowell Institute, Lumholtz's tree-kangaroo, Mexico, National Autonomous University of Mexico, North Queensland, Norway, Norwegian Geographical Society, PDF, Pima Bajo, Pinus lumholtzii, Punan Bah, Purépecha, Rarámuri, Royal Geographical Society, Royal Netherlands Geographical Society, Sanatorium, Saranac Lake, New York, Sierra Madre Occidental, Tepehuán, The Explorers Club, Theology, Tuberculosis, Union between Sweden and Norway, University of Oslo, Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition, World War I.

Adventure

An adventure is an exciting experience that is typically a bold, sometimes risky, undertaking.

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American Museum of Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as AMNH), located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, is one of the largest museums in the world.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Borneo

Borneo (Pulau Borneo) is the third largest island in the world and the largest in Asia.

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Botany

Botany, also called plant science(s), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.

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Carl Vilhelm Hartman

Carl Vilhelm Hartman (19 August 1862 – 19 June 1941), was a Swedish botanist and anthropologist.

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Central Kalimantan

Central Kalimantan (Kalimantan Tengah), is a province of Indonesia.

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Colugo

Colugos are arboreal gliding mammals found in Southeast Asia.

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Cora people

The Cora are an indigenous ethnic group of Western Central Mexico which live in the municipality El Nayar in the Mexican state of Nayarit and in a few settlements in the neighboring state of Jalisco.

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Dayak people

The Dayak or Dyak or Dayuh are the native people of Borneo.

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Ethnography

Ethnography (from Greek ἔθνος ethnos "folk, people, nation" and γράφω grapho "I write") is the systematic study of people and cultures.

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Exploration

Exploration is the act of searching for the purpose of discovery of information or resources.

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Fåberg

Fåberg is a village and former municipality in Oppland county, Norway.

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Field research

Field research or fieldwork is the collection of information outside a laboratory, library or workplace setting.

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Flying squirrel

Flying squirrels (scientifically known as Pteromyini or Petauristini) are a tribe of 50 species of squirrels in the family Sciuridae.

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Girringun National Park

Girringun National Park is a national park in Queensland, Australia, approximately southwest of Ingham, north of Townsville and northwest of Brisbane.

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Herbert River ringtail possum

The Herbert River ringtail possum (Pseudochirulus herbertensis) is a species of possum found in northeastern Queensland, Australia.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australians are the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia, descended from groups that existed in Australia and surrounding islands prior to British colonisation.

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Indigenous peoples

Indigenous peoples, also known as first peoples, aboriginal peoples or native peoples, are ethnic groups who are the pre-colonial original inhabitants of a given region, in contrast to groups that have settled, occupied or colonized the area more recently.

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Indonesia

Indonesia (or; Indonesian), officially the Republic of Indonesia (Republik Indonesia), is a transcontinental unitary sovereign state located mainly in Southeast Asia, with some territories in Oceania.

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James Cook University

James Cook University (JCU) is a public university and is the second oldest university in Queensland, Australia.

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La Gran Chichimeca

La Gran Chichimeca was a term used by the Spanish conquistadores of the 16th century to refer to an area of the northern central Mexican ''altiplano'' (plateau), a territory which today is encompassed by the modern Mexican states of Jalisco, Aguascalientes, Nayarit, Guanajuato and Zacatecas.

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Lowell Institute

The Lowell Institute is a United States educational foundation located in Boston, Massachusetts, providing both free public lectures, and also advanced lectures.

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Lumholtz's tree-kangaroo

Lumholtz's tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus lumholtzi) is a heavy-bodied tree-kangaroo found in rain forests of the Atherton Tableland Region of Queensland.

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Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

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National Autonomous University of Mexico

The National Autonomous University of Mexico (Spanish: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, - literal translation: Autonomous National University of Mexico, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico.

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North Queensland

North Queensland or the Northern Region is the northern part of the Australian state of Queensland that lies just south of Far North Queensland.

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Norway

Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary sovereign state whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard.

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Norwegian Geographical Society

The Norwegian Geographical Society (in Norwegian: Det norske geografiske Selskab) is a Norwegian learned society founded in 1889.

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PDF

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

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Pima Bajo

The Pima Bajo (Lower Pima or Mountain Pima) people reside in a mountainous region along the line between the States of Chihuahua and Sonora in northern Mexico.

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Pinus lumholtzii

Pinus lumholtzii, the Lumholtz's pine or pino triste ('sad pine' in Spanish), is a species of conifer in the Pinaceae family.

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Punan Bah

Punan Ba or Punan is an ethnic group found in Sarawak, Malaysia and in Kalimantan, Indonesia.

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Purépecha

The Purépecha or Tarascans (endonym P'urhépecha) are a group of indigenous people centered in the northwestern region of Michoacán, Mexico, mainly in the area of the cities of Cherán and Pátzcuaro.

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Rarámuri

The Rarámuri or Tarahumara are a group of Indigenous people of the Americas living in the state of Chihuahua in Mexico.

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Royal Geographical Society

The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) is the UK's learned society and professional body for geography, founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical sciences.

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Royal Netherlands Geographical Society

The Royal Dutch Geographical Society, Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap (KNAG) is an association in the Netherlands for geographers and for those connected with the field geography.

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Sanatorium

A sanatorium (also spelled sanitorium and sanitarium) is a medical facility for long-term illness, most typically associated with treatment of tuberculosis (TB) in the late-nineteenth and twentieth century before the discovery of antibiotics.

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Saranac Lake, New York

Saranac Lake is a village in the state of New York, United States.

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Sierra Madre Occidental

The Sierra Madre Occidental is a major mountain range system of the North American Cordillera, that runs northwest–southeast through Northwestern and Western Mexico, and along the Gulf of California.

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Tepehuán

The Tepehuán are an indigenous people of Mexico.

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The Explorers Club

The Explorers Club is an American-based international multidisciplinary professional society with the goal of promoting scientific exploration and field study.

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Theology

Theology is the critical study of the nature of the divine.

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Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB).

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Union between Sweden and Norway

Sweden and Norway or Sweden–Norway (Svensk-norska unionen; Den svensk-norske union), officially the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, or as the United Kingdoms, was a personal union of the separate kingdoms of Sweden and Norway under a common monarch and common foreign policy that lasted from 1814 until its amicable and peaceful dissolution in 1905.

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University of Oslo

The University of Oslo (Universitetet i Oslo), until 1939 named the Royal Frederick University (Det Kongelige Frederiks Universitet), is the oldest university in Norway, located in the Norwegian capital of Oslo.

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Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition

The Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition or shaft tomb culture refers to a set of interlocked cultural traits found in the western Mexican states of Jalisco, Nayarit, and, to a lesser extent, Colima to its south, roughly dating to the period between 300 BCE and 400 CE, although there is not wide agreement on this end-date.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sofus_Lumholtz

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