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Table of Contents

Foreword / John W. McCarter
Acknowledgments / Stephen E. Nash and Gary M. Feinman
Introduction: A glorious foundation: 109 years of anthropology at the Field Museum of Natural History / Stephen E. Nash and Gary M. Feinman
Part 1. A context for Field Museum anthropology
1. A natural history of man: reflections on anthropology, museums, and science / Don D. Fowler
2. The role of museums in American anthropology / Donald Collier and Harry S. Tschopik, Jr.
3. Creating field anthropology: why remembering matters / David R. Wilcox
4. "In Re: Founding of the Field Museum" / Edward Everett Ayer
5. The Department of Anthropology of the Field Columbian Museum - a review of six years / George A. Dorsey
6. A chronicle of Field Museum anthropology / Warren Haskin, Stephen E. Nash, and Sarah Coleman.
Part 2. A selection of curators
Interchapter / Stephen E. Nash and Gary M. Feinman
7. George Amos Dorsey: a curator and his comrades / Tristan Almazan and Sarah Coleman
8. Albert Buell Lewis: realizing George Amos Dorsey's vision / Robert L. Welsch
9. Berthold Laufer / Bennet Bronson
10. Henry Field, collections, and exhibit development, 1926-1941 / Ed Yastrow and Stephen E. Nash
11. A tale of two Thompsons: the contributions of Edward H. Thompson and J. Eric S. Thompson to anthropology at the Field Musem / Donald McVicker
12. Wilfrid D. Hambly and Sub-Saharan Africa research at the Field Museum, 1928-1953 / Raymond Codrington
13. Paul Sidney Martin / Stephen E. Nash
14. Recollections of the Department of Anthropology in the Mid-Twentieth Century / Elaine Bluhm Herold
15. Donald Collier: a curator's life / John E. Staller
16. My life with exhibits at the Field Museum, 1941-1976 / Donald Collier
17. The legacy of James W. VanStone in museum and arctic anthropology / Jessica M. Rooney and Chapurukha M. Kusimba
Part 3. Present and future challenges
18. The changing role of the curator / Jonathan Haas
19. Information management in the Department of Anthropology: history and prospects / Dorren Martin-Ross and William K. Barnett
20. A foundation for the future of Field Museum anthropology / Stephen E. Nash and Gary M. Feinman
Part 4. Appendices.

Edition Notes

Published in
Chicago, Ill
Series
Fieldiana -- new ser., no. 36, Publication -- 1525, Publication (Field Museum of Natural History) -- 1525.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
572.05
Library of Congress
GN2 .F4 new ser. no. 36

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 336 p. :
Number of pages
336

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL7020957M
Internet Archive
curatorscollecti36fiel
OCLC/WorldCat
53355592, 53355592

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL16076235W

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