The American Museum of History, Division of Anthropology welcomed a delegation of master craftsmen and native experts from the Sakha Republic in the Russian Federation. The group had come to New York to attend and perform during the annual United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York.
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Learn how scientists linked an asteroid to the extinction of dinosaurs, with astrophysicist Jackie Faherty.
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This section presents objects from the Textile Collection, as well as Mexico and Central America Virtual Hall, The Buddha Project, Tibetan Paintings, Ethnographic Collections from the most significant Museum expeditions.
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The swerving traffic and the bright lights of New York City can sometimes be suffocating for a small island girl like myself. Moving from the island of Maui to the island of Manhattan for a college…
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The creation of Vietnam: Journeys of Body, Mind, and Spirit (AMNH 2003) marked the beginning of a new journey: the first major collaboration between a Vietnamese museum and an American museum on an exhibition of Vietnamese cultures.
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Climate change to me is hurricane Sandy, the most brutal storm I’ve ever had to endure. I studied climate change and it was an abstract concept happening all over the world that I wanted to stop, u…
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Collections Management personnel work to preserve over 500,000 anthropological objects by providing them with stable environments, modern storage facilities, and by building computerized databases of the information associated with the objects.
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After a tragedy the soul always seeks only the light. Weary of darkness, it wobbles on and tries to take flight. That is the beauty of life. We continue on. We carry forward. We never really die. O…
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In collaboration with the Curator of Invertebrate Zoology Dr. Ward Wheeler, Dr. Whiteley has been studying historical relationships among languages, beginning with Uto-Aztecan languages of Middle and North America, using genetic methods developed in the field of evolutionary biology.
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Authors: Jennifer Beckmann, Charles S. Spencer, Elsa M. RedmondOver the past three decades, Dr. Charles Spencer and Dr. Elsa Redmond have completed archaeological field projects in the Tehuacán Val…
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