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A Yale-educated Renaissance man, S. Dillon Ripley was a "courtly, determined, hugely ambitious, energetic, funny, and colorful ornithologist, conservationist, and cultural standard-bearer" who led the Smithsonian Institution for twenty years, during its greatest period of growth. During his watch, from 1964 to 1984, the SI added eight new museums and seven new research centers and began publication of the Smithsonian magazine. It was Ripley's vision that transformed "the nation's attic" from a dusty archive to a vibrant educational and cultural institution, just as he had transformed Yale's Peabody museum before it. Prior to his career at the SI, and running parallel with it for the rest of his life, was Ripley's work as an ornithologist, begun in New Guinea in the 1930s, continued through his PhD from Harvard in 1943, and culminating in his landmark thirty-year project documenting the bird life of India. His lifelong passion for ornithology led him to positions of leadership in worldwide nature conservation. In the midst of these endeavors he was recruited in 1944 to the Office of Strategic Services, a Yalie club at the outset that became the forerunner of the modern CIA. Posted to Ceylon, he recruited and ran agents who reported from and infiltrated Japanese-held Southeast Asia. Roger D. Stone worked with Ripley on the board of the World Wildlife Fund. He has access to the Ripley family's archives and photos, as well as to the voluminous archives at the Smithsonian and the National Archives, and to over forty hours of transcribed interviews, conducted with Ripley at the Smithsonian.

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The advent of Franz Boas on the North American scene irrevocably redirected the course of Americanist anthropology. This volume documents the revolutionary character of the theoretical and methodological standpoint introduced by Boas and his first generation of students, among whom linguist Edward Sapir was among the most distinguished. Virtually all of the classic Boasians were at least part-time linguists alongside their ethnological work. During the crucial transitional period beginning with the founding of the Bureau of American Ethnology in 1879, there were as many continuities as discont

Boas, Franz --- Anthropology --- Anthropologie --- History --- Histoire --- Boas, Franz, --- Smithsonian Institution. --- History. --- Primitive societies --- Human beings --- Boaz, Franz, --- Bureau of American Ethnology (Smithsonian Institution) --- United States. --- Museum of Natural History (U.S.). --- Social sciences

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Science --- Science. --- Smithsonian Institution. --- Natural science --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Muʼassasat Smīthsūniyān --- Smitsonovskiĭ institut --- Смитсоновский институт --- RBdigital eMagazine. --- Freer Gallery of Art --- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution) --- Smithsonian Institution --- Périodiques. --- History. --- Smithsonian --- Natural sciences --- United States. --- Universidad Sergio Arboleda. --- USA --- Universität --- Bogotá --- 1984 --- -Muʼassasat Smīthsūniyān --- Universidad Sergio Arboleda --- Culture --- USA.

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The first American national museum designed and run by indigenous peoples, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC opened in 2004. It represents both the United States as a singular nation and the myriad indigenous nations within its borders. Constructed with materials closely connected to Native communities across the continent, the museum contains more than 800,000 objects and three permanent galleries and routinely holds workshops and seminar series.

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African Americans --- Black history --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Museums. --- History. --- National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.) --- United States. --- Smithsonian Institution. --- Black people --- African Americans history --- history