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The Polish Ethnologist Who Saved Ainu Heritage. Germanic-American Anthropologists Dominance (Anthropology Observation VI 181 - 212)

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  Zakopane Southern Poland Note 181 - Germanic-American Linguists Dominance Old Cemetery at Pęksowy Brzyzek   (The Cemetery of Distinguished People) Zakopane Poland Bronisław Piłsudski  a Polish ethnologist  most famous for his pioneering research on the language and culture of the   Ainu   people.  Bronisław researched the Ainu people after he was exiled by Tsar Alexander III of Russia to the Far East.   'Piłsudski  and Ainu heritage' is a fascinating subject I came across while visiting Zakopane which relate me to  Germanic/Jewish American linguists/anthropologists dominance of what's been around us over the last half-century (including Grace and Blust hypothetical Austronesian linguistic claims for Taiwan).  # Robert Blust # George William Grace # Joseph Harold Greenberg # Melville Jean Herskovits # Franz Uri Boas Franz Uri Boas (July 9, 1858 – December 21, 1942) was a German-American anthropologist and ethnomusicologis...