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Wenner-Gren’s “Image Library” is a vast repository illustrating how anthropologists wish to be seen ‘in the field’, including (in some cases) wishing not be seen but having to take a picture to appease their funder.
Here is “Peter Cahn on the left with his "bride," an Omnilife consumer (Omnilife is a pyramid selling scheme) at the birthday party for the daughter of a distributor of vitamin supplements.”
Webinar on Anthropology Funding Opportunities in Indonesia
Wenner-Gren Foundation collaborates with BRIN, introducing funding opportunities for Indonesian anthropology research, including fellowships and project support.
The Wenner-Gren Foundation, in collaboration with the Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities BRIN, is hosting a webinar on 9 January 2024 to discuss funding opportunities for Indonesian anthropologists and related researchers. The Foundation’s president, Danilyn Rutherford, will detail Wenner-Gren’s mission, history, and support programs, which include funding for individual and…
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The Many Faces of Fred Eggan
Fred Eggan was a mainstay of the Chicago anthropology department. He started at Chicago as an undergraduate in 1923 and stayed there until 1964, when he retired as a professor. He is mostly remembered as an Americanist who was a disciple of A.R. Radcliffe-Brown when Brown was at Chicago. There are a few pictures of him on the Internet but none of them have been collated before as they are here we are making history folks.
A young Fred Eggan via the Wenner-Gren foundation. This page of the foundation’s website is actually a great source of images of anthropologists.
Eggan as a Guggenheim fellow. He received the award in 1953 and this picture perhaps is from that period.
“Fred Eggan on the right, with Melvin Mednick and three Maranao (Moslems) near Lake Lauao, Mindanao, 1960s.” via American Ethnologist
a mature Eggan via his NAS obit
An elderly, statesmanlike Eggan via the Chicago Photographic Archive
The elder Eggan, via the Chicago Library’s note on his papers
