All the World is Here

Date: 

Wednesday, December 6, 2017, 6:00pm

Location: 

Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge

The 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago was the first American fair to feature anthropology. The new discipline had its own building, supervised by Frederic Putnam, director of Harvard University’s Peabody Museum. It competed, however, with another anthropology display organized by the Smithsonian Institution. Ira Jacknis will discuss how these exhibits offered competing versions of cultural reality, and he will trace anthropological display innovations that have become standard museum practice.

Lecture. Free and open to the public. Presented by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology.

 

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