Gunther Wagner..

[Demallie Jr, Raymond J.]

My colleague Jason Jackson here at Indiana sent me the message below re. Gunther Wagner:

Ray DeMallie

Gunter Wagner's story is reasonably well known and his professional biography is told in a dissertation turned book written by the German historian of anthropology and ethnologist Udo Mizchek. See
Leben und Werk Gunter Wagners (1908-1952)
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/237628975
His German ethnology period preceded his Boasian linguistics and ethnology period which preceded his Malinowskian Africanist period and WWII and the post war period landed him in South African anthropology. In addition to his well known African work and his reasonably well known linguistic work on Yuchi, he also authored an ethnological dissertation on the Native American Church (Peyote Religion).