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Ethnography
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
Scanning electron microscopy provides clear pictures of small structures. Energy dispersive X-ray spectorscopy allows the elemental composition of the structures to be quantified.
March 11th, 2011
ECCo anthropologists advise development of regional climate action strategy.
March 09th, 2011
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) allows conservators to determine which molecular structures are present in a material. From this information they can often determine which material was used to construct an object.
March 09th, 2011
Portable XRF analyzers make it possible to find the elemental composition of museum objects without taking samples.
March 07th, 2011
Examining a polychrome wooden statue using computed tomography and XRF leads to insight into how it was made and how it is deteriorating.
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.