Curators, collections, and contexts
Subtitle: anthropology at the Field Museum
By: Stephen E. Nash and Gary M. Feinman, editors.
Contributors: Nash, Stephen Edward, 1964-; Feinman, Gary M.; Field Museum of Natural History.
Series: Fieldiana -- new ser., no. 36; Publication -- 1525; Publication (Field Museum of Natural History) -- 1525.
Publisher: Field Museum of Natural History
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Number of pages: 336
Subjects: Field Museum of Natural History. Dept. of Anthropology -- History.; Anthropological museums and collections -- Illinois -- Chicago.; Anthropology -- Research -- Illinois -- Chicago.; Anthropology -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / John W. McCarter; title: Acknowledgments / Stephen E. Nash and Gary M. Feinman; title: Introduction: A glorious foundation: 109 years of anthropology at the Field Museum of Natural History / Stephen E. Nash and Gary M. Feinman; title: Part 1. A context for Field Museum anthropology; title: 1. A natural history of man: reflections on anthropology, museums, and science / Don D. Fowler; title: 2. The role of museums in American anthropology / Donald Collier and Harry S. Tschopik, Jr.; title: 3. Creating field anthropology: why remembering matters / David R. Wilcox; title: 4. "In Re: Founding of the Field Museum" / Edward Everett Ayer; title: 5. The Department of Anthropology of the Field Columbian Museum - a review of six years / George A. Dorsey; title: 6. A chronicle of Field Museum anthropology / Warren Haskin, Stephen E. Nash, and Sarah Coleman.; title: Part 2. A selection of curators; title: Interchapter / Stephen E. Nash and Gary M. Feinman; title: 7. George Amos Dorsey: a curator and his comrades / Tristan Almazan and Sarah Coleman; title: 8. Albert Buell Lewis: realizing George Amos Dorsey's vision / Robert L. Welsch; title: 9. Berthold Laufer / Bennet Bronson; title: 10. Henry Field, collections, and exhibit development, 1926-1941 / Ed Yastrow and Stephen E. Nash; title: 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; title: 12. Wilfrid D. Hambly and Sub-Saharan Africa research at the Field Museum, 1928-1953 / Raymond Codrington; title: 13. Paul Sidney Martin / Stephen E. Nash; title: 14. Recollections of the Department of Anthropology in the Mid-Twentieth Century / Elaine Bluhm Herold; title: 15. Donald Collier: a curator's life / John E. Staller; title: 16. My life with exhibits at the Field Museum, 1941-1976 / Donald Collier; title: 17. The legacy of James W. VanStone in museum and arctic anthropology / Jessica M. Rooney and Chapurukha M. Kusimba; title: Part 3. Present and future challenges; title: 18. The changing role of the curator / Jonathan Haas; title: 19. Information management in the Department of Anthropology: history and prospects / Dorren Martin-Ross and William K. Barnett; title: 20. A foundation for the future of Field Museum anthropology / Stephen E. Nash and Gary M. Feinman; title: Part 4. Appendices.