Félix Faustino Outes (July 29, 1878 – 1939) was an Argentine

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and

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Biography

Outes was born in

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, and was educated at the

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and the

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, graduating with a

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in 1899. He showed an early interest in

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, and in 1897, published ''Los

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es'', a study of the Argentine tribe of the same name. He traveled to

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to complete further studies at the École d'Anthropologie, and became a member of the

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and the

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, among others.''Argentines of Today''. Hispanic Society of America, 1920. He joined the

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in 1903, and worked there until 1911.Félix Faustino Outes
Biografiasyvidas.com Outes taught as Professor of Ethnology, Anthropology and Archeology at the

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,Felix Faustino Outes
in ebiografias.com and most of his seminal publications date from this era. He joined the

as Professor of Human Geography in 1914, and in 1930, was appointed Chair of the Archaeology Department. He founded the Geographic Investigations Institute in 1917, and directed the Anthropology and Ethnography Museum of Buenos Aires between 1930 and 1938. He was one of the founders of Argentine Society of Anthropology. Felix Faustino Outes died in 1939, at 61.

Works

*''Contribución al estudio de la etnología argentina'' (1897–98) *''La edad de piedra en la Patagonia'' (1905) *''Las viejas razas argentinas'' (1910) *''Los aborígenes del la República Argentina'' (1910) ; Collaborations * ''

Los restos indígenas de Pichilemu ''Los Restos Indígenas de Pichilemu'' (''The Indigenous Remains of Pichilemu'') was a 1908 book published by Chilean historian José Toribio Medina José Toribio Medina Zavala (; October 21, 1852 - December 11, 1930) was a Chilean bibliographer ...

'' by

José Toribio Medina José Toribio Medina Zavala (; October 21, 1852 - December 11, 1930) was a Chilean bibliographer, prolific writer, and historian. He is renowned for his study of colonial literature in Chile, printing in Spanish America and large bibliographies su ...

(1908)

References

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