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10, 2007 Austrian researcher visits State Historical Society-Archives PIERRE, S.D. -- The State Archives of the South Dakota State Historical Society at the Cultural Heritage Center was recently visited by Professor Christian Feest, director of the Museum of Ethnology in Vienna, Austria. Feest was doing research at the State Archives for an exhibit entitled, “The Life and Times of Sitting Bull." The new exhibit is based on an earlier version prepared by Feest and his students at the University of Frankfurt in 1999 at the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt. The exhibition places Sitting Bull's life, achievements, and legacy in the context of Lakota, American, and world history. "The Life and Times of Sitting Bull" will open in Bremen, Germany, in December 2008, before being shown in Paris and Vienna, possibly a major American city on the East Coast, and – in a reduced version – at the North Dakota Heritage Center in Bismarck. “South Dakota history has gone global,” noted Chelle Somsen, State Archivist for the South Dakota State Historical Society. “Researchers from around the world are travelling to the Cultural Heritage Center in search of South Dakota’s history.” Feest received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Vienna. From 1963 to 1993 he served as curator of the North and Middle American collections and of the photographic archives of the Museum of Ethnology in Vienna, and also taught anthropology at the University of Vienna between 1975 and 1993. From 1993 to 2004 he was professor of anthropology at the University of Frankfurt, was a visiting professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago in 2003, and in 2004 became director of the Museum of Ethnology in Vienna. His research and writings focus on material culture, the anthropology of art, visual representation, the ethnohistory of eastern North America (including contemporary issues), and the history of anthropology (including that of ethnographic collecting). He is the author of more than 200 essays and several books. The State Archives is open Monday through Friday and the first Saturday of each month from 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. You can contact the archives by phone at (605) 773-3804 or by email at archref@state.sd.us |
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