作者: Hugo Charteris

Alfred Métraux (5 November 1902 – 11 April 1963) was a Swiss anthropologist, ethnologist and human rights leader, noted for his pioneering contributions to South American ethnohistory and the examination of African culture in Haiti. Métraux studied with several prominent European anthropologists. He was director of the ethnological institute at the University of Tucumán, Argentina (1928-34), and, following an expedition to Easter Island (1934-35), joined the Bishop Museum, Honolulu. From 1941-45 he was a member of the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., and from 1946 to 1962 held posts with the United Nations and the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). For the latter he engaged in studies in the Amazon (1947-48) and Haiti (1949-50).