Guido Boggiani

Italian anthropologist and artist (1861-1902) · Italy · On the map · Academics · Died at 40

Guido Boggiani (1861-1902) was an Italian painter, draftsman, photographer, and ethnologist who in 1887 traveled through the interior of Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay to document the lives of Indians in the region. Now hailed as a "pioneer of fieldwork" in Italian ethnology, he was ritually killed by natives in 1902.

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