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Home » Anthropology

Tag: Anthropology

Posted inMusic

Chicago saxophonist Dave Rempis builds an intentional community in jazz

by Peter Margasak March 15, 2018August 18, 2021

Dave Rempis organizes concerts, mentors young musicians, and connects players from across the States and abroad—modeling the commitment and generosity that keep the jazz scene viable.

Jerri Zbiral and Alan Teller with their 130 found photos
Posted inArts & Culture

How a mysterious box of photos sent an Evanston couple halfway around the world

by Aimee Levitt August 27, 2014August 18, 2021

For a quarter century, Jerri Zbiral and Alan Teller have been trying to figure out the identity of the photographer behind images from 1940s India.

Chaka Khan; Jake Austen
Posted inFilm

Artist on Artist: Chaka Khan talks to Jake Austen of the Goblins

by Jake Austen August 5, 2014August 18, 2021

Chaka Khan talks to Jake Austen of the Goblins and Chic-a-Go-Go.

Emily Graslie is the Field Museum’s first-ever chief curiosity correspondent.
Posted inArts & Culture

How Emily Graslie went from YouTube science star to full-time at the Field Museum

by Janet Potter January 27, 2014August 18, 2021

A 20-year-old aspiring artist visited a zoological museum. Four years later, Emily Graslie is working at the Field Museum.

Posted inArts & Culture

What we learned at the Chicago Humanities Festival 2013

by Steve Bogira, Aimee Levitt, Janet Potter, Connie Vaughn and Sam Worley November 13, 2013August 19, 2021

What we learned at the Chicago Humanities Festival: Robots, pigs, Bambi, and more

Posted inBlogs

When man met mammoth and painted it (part one)

by Aimee Levitt March 15, 2013August 19, 2021

A preview of the Field Museum’s Lascaux cave paintings exhibit

Posted inBlogs

Jean Rouch in Chicago: An interview with Judy Hoffman and Gordon Quinn of Kartemquin Films, part three

by Ben Sachs January 23, 2013August 18, 2021

The concluding segment of an interview with two noted Chicago documentarians about the influential French ethnographer and filmmaker.

Posted inBlogs

Jean Rouch in Chicago: An interview with Judy Hoffman and Gordon Quinn of Kartemquin Films, part one

by Ben Sachs January 18, 2013August 18, 2021

Talking with some of Chicago’s most esteemed documentarians about the great French ethnographer and filmmaker

Posted inBlogs

3/18 — Free Talk on Women and Conservation

by Sam Worley March 16, 2010August 19, 2021

Dr. Alaka Wali presents the lecture “Women on the Front Line For Conservation” on Thu 3/18 at 7 PM at the Hopleaf Bar.

Posted inBlogs

Seeing a museum again for the first time

by Harold Henderson July 16, 2007August 19, 2021

What exactly is the Museum of Science and Industry teaching us?

Posted inBlogs

Reform anthropology while it’s still legal

by Harold Henderson October 6, 2006August 19, 2021

What’s in your toolbox?

Posted inBlogs

“Pissing while”

by Harold Henderson August 29, 2006August 19, 2021

Keeping time without clocks.

Posted inBlogs

Why marriage may be on the way out

by Harold Henderson July 1, 2006August 19, 2021

Ask an anthropologist for the real story on marriage sometime. It won’t offer aid and comfort to anyone much.

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