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Paul Rivet
Paul Rivet (7 May 1876, Wasigny, Ardennes – 21 March 1958) was a French ethnologist; he founded the Musée de l'Homme in 1937. In his professional work, Rivet is known for his theory that South America was originally populated in part by migrants who sailed there from Australia and Melanesia. He got married with Mercedes Andrade Chiriboga, a woman born in Cuenca, Ecuador.
Early life and education.
Paul Rivet was born in Wasigny, Ardennes in 1876. He attended local schools and
and not answer them. It was in this context that anthropologists began turning to genetics as a basis for any understanding of biological variation.
Later career: academic anthropology Linguistics.
Boas also contributed greatly to the foundation of linguistics as a science in the United States. He published many descriptive studies of Native American languages, and wrote on theoretical difficulties in classifying languages, and laid out a research program for studying the relations between language and culture which his students such as Edward Sapir, Paul Rivet, and Alfred Kroeber followed.