Results for "Anthropology"
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Update: New Round of Scientists on the Flickr Commons
- Date: March 8, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: As promised, we just uploaded a new batch of over twenty photographs from our Science Service collection to the Smithsonian Flickr Commons. This week is heavy on the anthropology, archeology, and psychology, with a dabble of astronomy and engineering thrown in. The photos include such gems as: Drs.
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Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Diana Baird N’Diaye
- Date: August 9, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Folklorist, visual artist, and curator, Dr. Diana Baird N’Diaye, Smithsonian’s Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, is a honorary professor at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and researches anthropology, folklore, fashion (dress), and visual art in Africa, the Caribbean, and the U.S. #Groundbreaker
- SI History Bibliography
List of Anthropological Publications of Charles Rau, 1859-1882
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Laura L. McKie
- Date: April 24, 2019
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Laura L. McKie, Assistant Director for Education, 1987–2001, planned, coordinated, and conducted educational activities at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. She began her career with the museum as a docent in 1969, and in 1971, she was hired as an Anthropology Education Specialist . #Groundbreaker
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William Henry Holmes (1846-1933) Renaissance Man
- Date: January 24, 2017
- Description: First hired by the Smithsonian in 1871, topographical illustrator William Henry Holmes was well known for paintings that were described as "orgies of pure color." His knowledge of geology, archaeology, anthropology, and ethnology made him a master in the scientific documentation of landscapes. His achievements included important publications on Native American cultures in
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Matthew Williams Stirling
- Date: April 4, 2017
- Description: [view in Spanish]Matthew Stirling's career in anthropology and archaeology was spent almost entirely at the Smithsonian Institution. Geographically, it spanned from New Guinea to the Americas, and his contributions to scholarship were equally as broad. Educated at the University of California at Berkeley and The George Washington University, he was both an active field worker
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T. Dale Stewart (1901-1997) Anthropologist/Painter
- Date: January 31, 2017
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9794,size=300,left][edan-image:id=siris_sic_8415,size=300,left]Physical anthropologist T. Dale Stewart was known as the "Head" Curator of the Department of Anthropology, not only because he was in charge, but also because of his special expertise in skulls. His interest in heads also extended to his hobby of portrait painting. Stewart, whose
Ruth Murray Underhill: Woman of the People
- Date: March 21, 2013
- Creator: Tad Bennicoff
- Description: The life of Ruth Murray Underhill, an Anthropologist, who worked with Native American tribes throughout the Southwest.
- Blog Post
William Stimpson and the Golden Age of American Natural History
- Date: July 17, 2018
- Description: Ron Vasile teaches AP U.S. History, U.S. History and Anthropology at Lockport Township High School in Lockport, Illinois.We bring to you the story of a dedicated naturalist turned museum pioneer.
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Jesse Walter Fewkes
- Date: April 4, 2017
- Description: [view in Spanish][edan-image:id=siris_arc_290975,size=200,left]Born in Newton, Massachusetts, his scientific career is divided into two distinct research fields and time periods. The first deals with marine zoology and the last with anthropology. Fewkes received a Ph.D. in marine zoology from Harvard in 1877, and was curator of lower invertebrates at the Museum of Comparative
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Henry's Science Gallery
- Date: May 1, 2012
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.