Dominik Schröder, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German ethnologist
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Place of Birth: Eiweiler, Saarland, Germany
About Dominik Schröder
- Dominik Schröder (4 September 1910 – 25 December 1974) was an ethnologist whose researches were focused mainly in the Moungor (Tu) people of Northwest China.
- He was born in Eiweiler, in the Nohfelden municipality of the Saarland.
- He worked as a missionary in China from 1938 to 1949.
- He obtained an MA from Fujen University in Beijing in 1945. He was active in the Anthropos-Institut in Fribourg, and undertook research on the Kham people, and the oral poetry of the Monguor people (???).
- He translated the chapter on Folklore from the Xikang Tújing (????:1934), a work by the Chinese scholar Rèn Naiqiáng (???) who pioneered studies on the Gesar epic.
- From 1946 to 1949 he resided among the Huzhu Monguor people.
- He returned to Europe in 1949 to pursue his studies in anthropology at both Fribourg and Frankfurt, and obtained a doctorate in 1951.
- His inaugural dissertation, "Zur Religion der Tujen des Sininggebietes (Kukunor)," published in 1953 was an important addition to a little-known field of ethnology.He was appointed professor of ethnology at Nanzan University in Nagoya in 1960, a position he held until 1969.
- While in Japan, he made several trips to Taiwan to conduct fieldwork among the shamanizing ‘poringao’ women of the aboriginal Puyuma people.
- His research notes were edited and published posthumously by Anton Quack.His particular area of research interest was the phenomenon of shamanism among the peoples of East Asia.
- He collected invaluable materials on the Gesar epic as conserved among the Monguor.
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