Berthold Laufer (11 de outubro de 1874 – 13 de setembro de 1934) foi um antropólogo e geógrafo historiador especializado em línguas asiáticas orientais. O Museu Americano de História Natural chamou-o "um dos mais distintos sinólogos da sua geração".
Trabalhou em etnologia no Museu Americano de História Natural (1904–1906), foi professor de antropologia e línguas asiáticas orientais na Universidade Columbia (1905–1907) e passou o resto da carreira no Field Museum em Chicago.obituário do Journal of the American Oriental Society 55.4 (1934): 349-362 Foi presidente da Sociedade de História da Ciência em 1932.
Lista de obras
Escritas em inglês 1899 Ethnological work on the island of Sakhalin 1899 Petroglyphs on the Amoor 1900 Preliminary notes on explorations among the Amoor tribes 1902 The decorative art of the Amur tribes, Volume 7, Part 1 1905 Historical jottings on amber in Asia 1906 The Bird-Chariot in China and Europe 1907 A Plea for the Study of the History of Medicine and Natural Sciences 1907 A theory of the origin of Chinese writing 1907 Note on the introduction of the groundnut into China 1907 The introduction of maize into eastern Asia 1907 The relations of the Chinese to the Philippine Islands 1907 W. W. Newell and the lyrics of Li-T'ai-Po 1908 Origin of Our Dances of Death 1908 The Jonah legend in India 1911 Chinese grave-sculptures of the Han period 1911 Jade 1911 King Tsing, the Author of the Nestorian Inscription 1912 Chinese pottery in the Philippines 1911 The Introduction of Vaccination Into the Far East 1912 Fish Symbols in China (Illustrated) 1912 Foreword to "Catalogue of a selection of art objects from the Freer collection exhibited in the new building of the National museum, April 15 to June 15, 1912" 1912 The Chinese Madonna in the Field Museum 1913 Descriptive account of the collection of Chinese, Tibetan, Mongol, and Japanese books in the Newberry Library 1913 Remarks on "Some aspects of North American Archaeology" by Roland B. Dixon (pp.573-574 of American Anthropologist vol.15 Issue 4 1913 Notes on Turquois In The East 1913 The Application of the Tibetan Sexagenary Cycle 1913 The Chinese Battle of the Fishes (With Illustration) 1913 The Praying Mantis in Chinese Folklore (Illustrated) 1914 Bird divination among the Tibetans (notes on document Pelliot no 3530, with a study of Tibetan phonology of the ninth century) 1914 Chinese clay figures 1914 Some Fundamental Ideas of Chinese Culture 1915 The diamond 1915 The Eskimo Screw as a Culture-Historical Problem 1915 The Story of the Pinna and the Syrian Lamb 1915 Two Chinese Imperial Jades 1916 Burkhan 1916 Cardan's Suspension in China 1916 Loan-words in Tibetan 1916 The Nichols Mo-So Manuscript 1917 Concerning the History of Finger-Prints 1917 Moccasins 1917 Origin of the Word Shaman 1917 Religious and artistic thought in ancient China 1917 The Beginnings of Porcelain in China, 1917 1917 The language of the Yüe-chi or Indo-Scythians 1917 The reindeer and its domestication 1917 The Vigesimal and Decimal Systems in the Ainu Numerals: With Some Remarks on Ainu Phonology 1917 Totemic Traces among the Indo-Chinese 1918 Origin of Tibetan Writing 1918 The Chinese Exhibition 1919 Coca and betel-chewing: A query 1919 Sino-Iranica; Chinese contributions to the history of civilization in ancient Iran, with special reference to the history of cultivated plants and products 1920 Multiple Births among the Chinese 1920 The reindeer once more 1920 Sex transformation and hermaphrodites in China 1922 Archaic Chinese bronzes: of the Shang, Chou and Han periods, in the collections of Mr. Parish-Watson 1922 Preface to "Japanese collections : Frank W. Gunsaulus Hall" by Helen C. Gunsaulus 1922 The Chinese gateway 1923 Use of Human Skulls and bones in Tibet 1924 Introduction of tobacco into Europe 1924 Tobacco and its use in Asia 1925 Chinese Baskets 1925 Ivory in China 1926 Ostrich Egg-Shell Cups from Mesopotamia 1927 Agate, archaeology and folklore 1927 Insect-Musicians and Cricket Champions of China 1928 The Giraffe in History and Art 1928 The prehistory of aviation 1928 The prehistory of television 1930 A Chinese-Hebrew Manuscript, a new Source for the History of the Chinese Jews 1930 Geophagy 1930 The early history of felt 1930 Tobacco and its use in Africa 1931 Columbus and Cathay, and the Meaning of America to the Orientalist 1931 Paper and Printing in Ancient China 1931 The domestication of the cormorant in China and Japan 1931 Tobacco in New Guinea 1932 A Defender of the Faith and his Miracles 1932 Sino-American Points of Contact 1933 East and West 1933 ''Preface to "The races of mankind: an introduction to Chauncey Keep Memorial Hall" 1933 The Jehol pagoda model(Field Museum News Vol.4 April 1933 No.4 p.1) 1933 Turtle Island 1934 Chinese Muhammadan bronzes 1934 Etruscans (Field Museum News Vol.5 January 1934 No.1 p.2) 1934 Rare Chinese brush-holder (Field Museum News Vol.5 June 1934 No.6 p.4) 1934 The Chinese imperial gold collection 1934 The Lemon in China and Elsewhere 1934 The Noria or Persian Wheel 1934 The Swing in China 1935 Rye in the Far East and the Asiatic Origin of Our Word Series "Rye" 1938 The American plant migration. The potato 1939 Christian art in China
Escritas em francês 1905 Anneaux nasaux en Chine 1916 The Si-hia language: A Study in Indo-Chinese Philology 1917 La Mandragore 1918 Malabathron 1922 Sanskrit Karketana
Escritas em alemão 1898 Blumen, die unter den Tritten von Menschen hervorsprossen 1898 Über eine Gattung mongolischer Volkslieder und ihre Verwandtschaft mit türkischen Liedern 1898-1899 Ueber das va zur. Ein Beitrag zur Phonetik der tibetischen Sprache: part 1part 2part 3 1908 Skizze der manjurischen Literatur 1907 Zur Geschichte der Brille
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