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Cultural Understanding
March 31st, 2011
ECCo collaborated with three Energy Action Network sites in Roseland to identify what “green” means to residents and to become demonstration sites for climate action.
March 28th, 2011
ECCo's Urban Anthropology Team presents key findings from recent study of the Pilsen neighborhood.
March 21st, 2011
ECCo's Urban Anthropology Team receives Environmental Justice Award.
March 11th, 2011
Javanese masks are worn by actors in traditional dance dramas known as wayang topeng. Such performances are held at night and last for at least several hours.
March 11th, 2011
The Java village at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago was a reconstruction of a village from West Java, complete except for the lack of lush tropical vegetation. One hundred twenty dancers, musicians, and ordinary rural people from West and Central Java called the village home for about nine months in Chicago.
March 11th, 2011
ECCo anthropologists advise development of regional climate action strategy.
March 09th, 2011
The Field Museum supports inaugural Chicago Southland Green Drinks
March 09th, 2011
ECCo staff present at 4th biennial Wild Things: A Chicago Wilderness Conference for People and Nature.
March 02nd, 2011
While the acquisition of new collections for the Museum still involves obtaining actual objects, our collecting also involves much more than just this.
March 02nd, 2011
The Museum’s ethnographic materials from Polynesia number nearly 8,000 objects and represent almost every island group in the region.