# Jan Pouwer

> Jan Pouwer was a Dutch anthropologist with a thorough grounding in his profession in terms of fieldwork and theory. He studied Indology and Ethnology at Leiden University under the renowned Jan Petrus Benjamin de Josselin de Jong. He worked as a ‘government anthropologist’ and conducted extensive fieldwork in Netherlands New Guinea, 1951-62. He subsequently served as Professor of Anthropology at Amsterdam, Wellington (N.Z./Aotearoa) and Nijmegen Universities, 1962-87.

*Dutch anthropologist (1924-2010)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** Netherlands
- **Born:** 1924-09-21
- **Died:** 2010-04-21
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Jan Pouwer was a Dutch anthropologist with a thorough grounding in his profession in terms of fieldwork and theory. He studied Indology and Ethnology at Leiden University under the renowned Jan Petrus Benjamin de Josselin de Jong. He worked as a ‘government anthropologist’ and conducted extensive fieldwork in Netherlands New Guinea, 1951-62. He subsequently served as Professor of Anthropology at Amsterdam, Wellington (N.Z./Aotearoa) and Nijmegen Universities, 1962-87.

## Fame
- **Fame score:** 32.1
- **Momentum:** 15.0

## Sources
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- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2333234)

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