Hallet, Jean-Pierre, 1927-2004
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Name (Latin)
Hallet, Jean-Pierre, 1927-2004
Other forms of name
Hallet, Jean Pierre, 1927-
Date of birth
1927-08-04
Date of death
2004
Associated country
Belgium
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Rwanda
United States
Field of activity
Art, African
Mbuti (African people)
Pygmies
Occupation
Art, African--Collectors and collecting
Ethnologists
Linguists
Philanthropists
Agriculturists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- His Congo kitabu, 1965.
- OCLC, Mar. 13, 2014(hdgs.: Hallet, Jean Pierre, 1927- ; Hallet, Jean Pierre; Hallet, Jean-Pierre; usage: Jean-Pierre Hallet)
- Pygmy Fund website, letter by Marc and Bernard Hallet, Feb. 18, 2004, viewed Mar. 13, 2014(Jean-Pierre Hallet, founder and president of The Pygmy Fund; d. Jan. 1, 2004, leukemia; accompanying obituary by Don Heyneman: d. age 76; africanist, ethnologist, sociologist, humanitarian, agronomist, naturalist, explorer, photographer, author, African art authority, adventurer; best known as authority on African pygmies and in particular the Ituri Forest Efé clan of the Bambuti pygmies; father, artist André Hallet, lived along northern shore of Lake Kivu in Ruanda-Urundi; Hallet lived there until age 6; studied agronomy and sociology at the Univ. of Brussels, 1945-46, and the Sorbonne, 1947-48; joined the Ministry for Colonies as agronomist in Belgian Congo, 1948-1958; compiled dictionary of the pygmy language, unpublished; lived and worked with 17 tribes of East and Central Africa, learning languages and traditions of each; had a home in Kisenyi, present-day Rwanda; home in Malibu, Cal., store and gallery for African art in Santa Monica)