| LC control no. | n 88247149 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Rivet, Paul, 1876-1958 |
| Variant(s) | Rivet, P. (Paul), 1876-1958 Rivet Lajoux, Paul, 1876-1958 Lajoux, Paul Rivet, 1876-1958 |
| Associated country | France |
| Associated place | Cuenca (Ecuador) |
| Birth date | 1876-05-07 1876 |
| Death date | 1958-03-21 1958-03-25 |
| Place of birth | Wasigny (France) |
| Place of death | Paris (France) |
| Field of activity | Medicine Anthropology Ethnology--Andes Region |
| Affiliation | Musée de l'homme (Muséum national d'histoire naturelle) Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (France) |
| Profession or occupation | Ethnologists Anthropologists Physicians |
| Found in | Tsachila, 1988: t.p. (Paul Rivet) p. 8 (1876-1958) LC data base, 1-11-89 (hdg.: Rivet, Paul, 1876-1958) L'orfèvrerie précolombienne des Antilles, des Guyanes, et du Vénézuéla ... 1923: t.p. (P. Rivet) Madame Rivet, 2016 page following the title page (Paul Rivet, anthropologist, scientist, physician of the French geodesic mission in Cuenca, met Mercedes Andrade who later became his wife) Wikipedia, viewed December 13, 2016 (Paul Rivet, born in Wasigny, Ardennes, in 7 May 1876, died in 21 March 1958; was a French ethnologist trained as physician; he founded the Musée de l'Homme in 1937; in his professional work, Rivet is known for his theory that South America was originally populated in part by migrants who sailed there from Australia and Melanesia; he married Mercedes Andrade Chiriboga, a woman born in Cuenca, Ecuador) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rivet> Diccionario biográfico Ecuador website, viewed December 13, 2016 (Paul Rivet Lajoux, anthropologist, 1876-1958; son of Gustavo Rivet and María Lajoux) <http://www.diccionariobiograficoecuador.com/tomos/tomo2/r4.htm> Britannica (online), August 18, 2022 (Paul Rivet; French anthropologist; died March 25, 1958, Paris; educated as a physician, he joined a scientific expedition sent to Ecuador in 1901; at the end of the mission he remained in South America an additional 6 years, observing peoples of the high Andean valleys; upon return to Paris he became an assistant at the National Museum of Natural History) |
| Associated language | fre |
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