"Anthropologists in the making": Building bridges of cross-cultural understanding

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'Anthropologists in the making' is a summer program, in which children learn to embrace and celebrate aspects of culture unique and different from their own and also learn to identify common threads that connect human societies to one another. Some of the events organized under this program are discussed like decoding Egyptian hieroglyphs, and identifying symbols in Buddhist paintings.

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Moving the museum's ethnographic collections: a conservation approach

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The protection of items in the ethnographic items in the collection of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania during a move is described. The collection was being moved from a basement to a state-of-the-art storage facility which would protect the items from environmental damage.

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Hand that remember: an ethnographic approach to everyday cooking

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The task of cooking under conditions of modernity in our ethnographic knowledge about everyday cooking by ordinary people, trying a new recipe by reading a book or trying to get a healthy meal on the table after work is discussed

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