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Richard Kurin

Anthropology

#1421

World Rank

#1861

Historical Rank

#647

USA Rank

Cultural Anthropology

#145

World Rank

#182

Historical Rank

#80

USA Rank

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PhD Anthropology University of Chicago
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According to Wikipedia, Richard Kurin , an American cultural anthropologist, museum official and author, is the Acting Provost and Under Secretary for Museums and Research at the Smithsonian Institution. He is a key member of the senior team managing the world's largest museum and research complex with 6,500 employees and a $1.4 billion annual budget, caring for more than 139 million specimens, artifacts and artworks, working in 145 countries around the globe, hosting some 30 million visitors a year, and reaching hundreds of millions online and through the Smithsonian's educational programs and media outreach. Kurin is particularly responsible for all of the national museums, scholarly and scientific research centers, and programs spanning science, history, art and culture.

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Richard Kurin's Published Works

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Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display (1991) (987)
Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage in the 2003 UNESCO Convention: a critical appraisal (2004) (313)
Safeguarding intangible cultural heritage: key factors in implementing the 2003 convention. (2007) (99)
Reflections of a Culture Broker: A View from the Smithsonian (1997) (46)
Museums and Intangible Heritage: Culture Dead or Alive? (2004) (33)
The structure of blessedness at a Muslim shrine in Pakistan (1983) (19)
From Smithsonian's America To America's Smithsonian (1997) (18)
Indigenous Agronomics and Agricultural Development in the Indus Basin (1983) (18)
8. Morality, Personhood, and the Exemplary Life: Popular Conceptions of Muslims in Paradise (1984) (10)
Islamization in Pakistan: A View from the Countryside (1985) (8)
The Silk Road Festival: Connecting Cultures (2002) (7)
UNESCO Votes New Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention (2003) (7)
Tangible Progress: A Response to “Safeguarding the Intangible” by Michael F. Brown (2012) (4)
The Smithsonian's History of America in 101 Objects (2013) (4)
The Silk Road: The Making of a Global Cultural Economy (2014) (3)
Patterns of Solidarity in a Punjabi Muslim Village (1985) (2)
U.S. Consideration of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention (2016) (2)
The Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Museological Perspective (2014) (2)
Sharing, Crossing, and Subsuming Museum Boundaries: Current Directions (2007) (1)
Elephants and Their Ivory: Zoos and Museums (2018) (1)
Song of Hope: The Green Revolution in a Panjab Village . By Murray J. Leaf. New Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers University Press, 1984. xvi, 281 pp. Photographs, Bibliography, Index. $28. (1985) (1)
Commentary: The Smithsonian Goes Cable (2007) (1)
Pakistan: The Vanguar of the Islamic Revolution: The Jama'at-I Islami of Pakistan (1999) (0)
Public folklore: Pursuing cultural democracy in the 21st century (2002) (0)
Aditi: The Living Arts of India: Reply to Seneviratne (1987) (0)
Time has come today (1999) (0)
The 1991 Festival of American Folklife@@@1991 Festival of American Folklife (1992) (0)
The Political and Cultural Stakes (2007) (0)
Wanted: Culture--Dead or Alive? The Smithsonian's Festival on the Mall (2014) (0)
A Victoria Conversation: Stephen Weil and “Museums Matter” (2007) (0)
Producing Anthropology: Culture of, by, and for the People (2015) (0)
Akbar S. Ahmed. Pukhtun Economy and Society: Traditional Structure and Economic Development in a Tribal Society. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, Ltd., 1980. Maps, plates, appendix, glossary, bibliography, index, xvi + 406 pp. $35.00 (1982) (0)

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