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Henry Field (anthropologist)

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277:, in 1952. In Coconut Grove he ran Field Research Projects, a publisher of scientific and educational materials. His third wife, Julia Allen Field was a lion trainer, zoo director, and environmental planner in Columbia. Field's two daughters are Mariana Field Hoppin, of New York, and Juliana Field, of Framingham, Massachusetts. He died in 247:
and to be a member of the Special Intelligence Unit of the White House to direct a top-secret "M" ("M" for migration) project. The President believed that refugee migration and re-settlement in areas where they would be given asylum and be able to thrive would be one of the biggest issues of the
208:. Field supervised the creation of two permanent exhibitions. The "Hall of Prehistoric Man" had nine full-size dioramas of early life augmented by artifacts collected by Field. The "Hall of the Races of Mankind" had over 100 full sized sculptures of different races by the renowned sculptor 284:
The Special Collections department of the University of Miami library holds 35 boxes of the papers of Henry Field relating to the "M" project and several archaeology expeditions. In 2004-2005 The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University put on an exhibition titled
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post-war era. He wanted Field to look at under-populated areas in North Africa and the Middle East as possible sites for their resettlement. Over 600 studies were produced. Complete sets are held in several libraries including the
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at Harvard University from 1950 to 1969. He was a member of the University of California African Expedition (1947–48), and the Peabody Museum- Harvard Expedition to the Near East and Pakistan. He moved to
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in Chicago as assistant curator of physical anthropology. Field's first participation in an expedition was in the University of Oxford/Field Museum excavation of
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In 1941, just before America's entry into the Second World War, Field was asked to be the "Anthropologist to the President" by president
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Redman, Samuel J. Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums, Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2016.
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In 1934, Field was promoted to Head Curator of physical anthropology. One important acquisition Field made for the Museum was "
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After being awarded his first degree, Field moved back to Chicago in 1926 to begin working for the
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Henry Field is commemorated in the scientific name of a Middle Eastern viper,
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Beginning in the late 1920s the Field Museum began planning for the upcoming
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Arabs of Central Iraq, Their History, Ethnology and Physical Characteristics
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Contributions to the anthropology of the Faiyum, Sinai, Sudan Kenya
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The Races of Mankind. An introduction to Chauncey Keep Memorial Hall
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PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT'S Office Files, 1933–1945 Part 5
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Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011).
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An Anthropological Reconnaissance in West Pakistan, 1955
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Captain Marshall Field Expedition to Western Europe
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Contributions to the Anthropology of the Soviet Union
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Index

Chicago
Coral Gables, Florida
American
Oxford
Anthropology
Field Museum of Natural History
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
University of Miami
Henry Balfour
R.R. Marett
anthropologist
archaeologist
Chicago
Marshall Field
Barbour Lathrop
Algernon Burnaby
Baggrave Hall
Sunningdale
Eton
Oxford
Field Museum of Natural History
Kish
Chicago World's Fair
Malvina Hoffman
Magdalenian Girl
anthropometric
Marsh Arabs
Shammar bedouins
Kurds
Roosevelt

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