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Ethnography
February 21st, 2011
The Museums's Latin American collections include fine textiles from highland Peru and Bolivia and from Guatemala.
February 04th, 2011
ECCo Engages Communities in the Chicago Climate Action Plan.
January 17th, 2011
The Field Museum has a collection of about 80 Javanese Masks from the World's Columbian Exposition 1893. The masks were worn by actors in traditional dance dramas known in the Indonesian language as wayang topeng.
January 17th, 2011
The Chicago metropolitan region harbors a wealth of cultural and natural assets. More than 360,000 acres of natural areas thrive among millions of people.
January 17th, 2011
Community stories tell about environmentally-friendly practices
January 17th, 2011
In addition to the generous donation to The Field Museum of the artifacts in the collection, the Boone family also donated money to finance student internships each year: the Boone Scholars Internships for East Asian Studies.
January 17th, 2011
Maijuna receive firsthand the results of their region’s inventory.
January 14th, 2011
Since its founding, The Field Museum has devoted considerable attention to the Native peoples of North America. The result is a series of collections of striking depth, strong in recent history and contemporary culture. Staff collaborate actively with Native American groups, who come regularly to visit and study the collections of their nations.
January 12th, 2011
The real objects and other kinds of information relating to life, customs, and traditions around the globe that are acquired and safeguarded by museums are much more than just "scientific evidence" suitable for academic research.Anthropology collections acquired at different times and in different places can also serve as genuine material witness to the reality of human diversity, past and present.Equally important, anthropology collections of "things" combined with carefully documented information on their manufacture, use, and human meanings can also serve as authentic historical benchmarks
January 12th, 2011
The Field Museum Department of Anthropology has a long history of research and institutional collaboration with a wide variety of Asian groups. The Field Museum Department of Anthropology has a long history of research and institutional collaboration with a wide variety of Asian groups. Berthold Laufer (1874-1934), curator of Asian Anthropology from 1908 to 1934, was a pioneer in the study of Asian cultures. Today, Curator Gary Feinman currrently directs a collaborative research project in China that explores the emergence of early complex societies in the Shandong region.