Christian Feest

Christian F. Feest ( born July 20, 1945 in Broumov, Czechoslovakia) is an Austrian anthropologist.

Biography

Christian Feest studied at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate there in 1969 on the theme " Virginia Algonquian 1570-1703. Ethnohistory and historical ethnography " (the work is only typewritten available). He habilitated in 1980 at the University of Vienna with a thesis on " Drinking and drunkenness in Indian North America. On the question of the social and cultural aspects of alcohol consumption. " Against this background, he soon became a leading expert on North American Indians.

Since 1987 he has been editor of the Review of Native American Studies. He first worked as assistant at the Museum of Ethnology in Vienna, then became professor of ethnology of North America at the University of Frankfurt am Main. From 2004 to 2010 he directed the Museum of Ethnology in Vienna and taught at the University of Vienna. Christian Feest has two brothers, Johannes Feest and Gerhard DC.

Works (selection)

• The Art of War. Thames & Hudson, London 1980, ISBN 0 - 500-06010 -X.
• Animate worlds. The religions of the American Indians. Herder, Freiburg / B. 2003, ISBN 3-451-28186-4 ( Small library of religions; 9).
• Major works of ethnology. Kröner, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-520-38001-3 (along with Karl- Heinz Kohl ).
• Native Arts of North America. Neuaufl. Thames & Hudson, London 1980, ISBN 0-500-18179-9.
• The red America. North American Indians. Europe - Verlag, Wien 1976, ISBN 3-203-50577-0.

• Indian Times. News from the red America. Self Publishing, Old Town 2002, ISBN 3-00-009869-0 ( catalog for exhibition of the same November 9, 2002 to 31 August 2003 Museum of World Cultures Frankfurt / M. ).
• Cultures of the North American Indians. Könemann, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-8290-0500-8 (along with Cora Bender).
• Technology and ergology in Ethnology, Vol 1 4, completely revised edition Reimer, Berlin 1999 (together with Alfred Janata ).