A group of Bhutanese Buddhist dignitaries visited the Division of Anthropology to see some tangkas (Buddhist paintings) and sculptures in the Museum collections.
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The primary function of the Objects Conservation Laboratory in the Division of Anthropology is to ensure the preservation of the collections for the future. The conservators‘ main activities include examination, documentation, treatment and preventive care, supported by research and education.
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November, 2019. The American Museum of Natural History welcomed six representatives from the Tohono O’odham Nation.
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Microbiome Monday is back as our curators explore the ecology and life cycle of the killer microbe Legionella.
a double whammy as diseases: they incapacitate an element
Lerner-Gray Postdoctoral Research Fellow
SISALv3: a global speleothem stable isotope and trace element
The Division of Anthropology is concerned with all aspects of human behavior, past, present, and with an eye to the future.
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Dr. Ian Tattersall is Curator Emeritus of Biological Anthropology. He carried out both primatological and paleontological fieldwork in Madagascar, Vietnam, Surinam, Yemen and Mauritius. His current research interest lies in systematics within the genus Homo and in the origin of modern human cognition.
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Out of Dr. Whiteley’s research on the relationship between matrilineal kinship, Hopi ritual sodalities, and the Orayvi Split grew an interest in two mirrored kinship systems of the "Crow-Omaha" type.
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Dr. Laurel Kendall is Curator of Asian Ethnology and Chair of the Anthropology Division. Her long acquaintance with South Korean life began in 1970 as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer where a chance encounter with female shamans led her to subsequent anthropological fieldwork. In 2007 the International Society for Shamanic research gave Kendall a lifetime achievement award.
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