Buell Quain

Infobox Person
name = Buell Quain


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birth_name = Buell Halvor Quain
birth_date = birth date|1912|5|31|df=y
birth_place = Bismarck, North Dakota, USA
death_date = death date and age|1939|8|2|1912|5|31|df=y
death_place = Brazil
death_cause = Suicide
nationality = flagicon|USA American
alma_mater = Columbia University
occupation = Ethnologist

Buell Halvor Quain (31 May 1912 – 2 August 1939) was an American Ethnologist who, after graduating from Columbia University, worked with native peoples in Fiji [cite web|url=http://www.anthropologising.ca/fidji/admin.htm|title=The Effects of Limited Anthropological Theory on Problems of Fijian Administration|accessdate=2008-06-18|date=2002-03-27|author=Cyril Belshaw|publisher=Anthropologising.ca] and Brazil. [cite web|url=http://www.brazzil.com/p119jan03.htm|title=White Chief's Gone|accessdate=2008-06-18|date=2003-01-19|author=Elma Lia Nascimento|publisher=Brazzil.com] He published a total of four books, three of them posthumously.

The mysteries surrounding his death by suicide was the subject of Brazilian author Bernardo Carvalho's 2002 novel "Nine Nights". [cite web|url=http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/books/article.html?in_article_id=76617&in_page_id=28|title=Nine Nights|accessdate=2008-06-18|publisher=Metro.co.uk]

Bibliography

*"The Iroquois"
*"The Flight of the Chiefs" - 1942
*"The Trumai Indians of Central Brazil" - 1955 (with Robert Francis Murphy)
*"Fijian Village" - 1970

References

External links

* [http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/pqrst/quain_bell.html Minnesota State University]