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How the first female anthropologists found freedom far from home
by Boyd TonkinTuesday, 02 March 2021
To the ends of the earth: Frances LarsonGemma Clarke
Beatrice Blackwood had lived in a clifftop village between surf and jungle on Bougainville Island, part of the Solomon archipelago in the South Pacific. She hunted, fished and grew crops with local people as she studied their social and sexual lives; she joined the men on risky forays into other communities “that had never seen a white person before, but she never recorded any animosity from them”. Later, in 1936, she relocated to the remote interior of New Guinea.
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Following a University report that indicated the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology houses the remains of formerly enslaved people within its collections, anthropology scholars and curator advocates called on Harvard to promote conversations regarding museumsâ roles in perpetuating racism.
At the end of January, University President Lawrence S. Bacow announced the results of a Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology review, which found that the museumâs collections include the remains of 15 individuals of African descent who were likely alive during the time of slavery in the United States.
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and chair of the presidential initiative on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery, a University-wide effort to examine the legacy of slavery at Harvard, responded to Bacowâs announcement in a note to Radcliffe staff.
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An 18th century biscuit made to commemorate the philanthropy of a pair of conjoined twins has been sold for £100 at auction.
Biddenden Cakes were a rectangle hard biscuit moulded with an image of Mary and Eliza Chulkhurst â known as the Biddenden Maids.
The twins were born in the village of Biddenden in Kent in 1100 and lived until the age of 34.
Weâve sold quite a few pieces of wedding cake from the Charles and Diana wedding of 1981 for as much as £1,000 and we are no strangers to selling quirky collectables
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A Biddenden Cake with an image of Mary and Eliza Chulkhurst (Dominic Winter Auctioneers)
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An 18th century biscuit made to commemorate the philanthropy of a pair of conjoined twins has been sold for £100 at auction.
Biddenden Cakes were a rectangle hard biscuit moulded with an image of Mary and Eliza Chulkhurst – known as the Biddenden Maids.
The twins were born in the village of Biddenden in Kent in 1100 and lived until the age of 34.