Adrienne L. Kaeppler Explained

Adrienne L. Kaeppler
Birth Date:26 July 1935
Birth Place:Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
Death Place:Washington, D.C., U.S.
Known For:Research on Tonga and Captain Cook
Occupation:Curator of Oceanic Ethnology at the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution.

Adrienne Lois Kaeppler (July 26, 1935 – March 5, 2022) was an American anthropologist, curator of oceanic ethnology at the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.[1] She served as the President of the International Council on Traditional Music between 2005 and 2013.[2] Her research focused on the interrelationships between social structure and the arts, including dance, music, and the visual arts, especially in Tonga and Hawaii.[3] She was considered to be an expert on Tongan dance, and the voyages of the 18th-century explorer James Cook.

Career

Her research focused on material culture and the visual and performing arts in their cultural contexts, including traditional social and political structures and modern cultural identity.

Kaeppler attended the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and received her Masters and PhD from the University of Hawaii. In the 1970s, she was an anthropologist at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii. She has taught anthropology, ethnomusicology, anthropology of dance, and art history at the University of Hawaii;[4] the University of Maryland, College Park; the Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland; Johns Hopkins University; and the University of California, Los Angeles. She was also a member of the State Council on Hawaiian Heritage. In 1998, she worked in Tonga at the Tongan National Museum, setting up a special exhibition on the 80th birthday of King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV.[5] In 2004, she was vice-president of the International Council for Traditional Music, and she was elected as President in 2005, taking over from Krister Malm.[6] She was a curator and anthropologist at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution.[7]

Personal life

Kaeppler was a majorette for her high school band, played violin in high school orchestra, and studied voice at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music.[8]

Kaeppler died on March 5, 2022, at the age of 86.[9] [10]

Awards

In 1978, Kaeppler was honored by the YWCA as a leading female scientist whose work increased the understanding of native cultures.[11]

Kaeppler was also lauded for the book James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific (published in 2009). The work was recognized with the 2010 First International Tribal Art Book Prize, organized by Tribal Art magazine in partnership with Sotheby's Paris Headquarters,[12] and in April 2010, it was named Book of the Month by Hodern House in Australia.[13]

In 2010, Kaeppler delivered a Smithsonian Secretary's Distinguished Research Lecture Award, which "recognizes a scholar’s sustained achievement in research, longstanding investment in the Smithsonian, and outstanding contribution to a field, as well as his or her ability to communicate research to a non-specialist audience."[14]

Publications

Selected writing

Editing

References

Notes and References

  1. News: Easter Island. December 28, 2001. The News-Times. Miller, Robert.
  2. Book: Dance structures: Perspectives on the analysis of human movement. Akademiai Kiado. Budapest. Kaeppler, Adrienne L.. Dunin, Elsie Ivancich. Elsie Ivancich Dunin. 2007. 978-963-05-8542-2.
  3. Sperlich, Tobias. Embodied inter-cultural dialogues: The biography of a Samoan necklace in Cologne. Journal of the Polynesian Society. 2006.
  4. News: The Lure and Harmony of the Hula. September 22, 1979. Kriegsman, Alan. The Washington Post.
  5. Web site: Book celebrates art of Polynesia. staradvertiser.com. Arcayna, Nancy. October 24, 2010. December 24, 2010.
  6. Web site: Report and projects (2005–2006). Giurchescu, Anca . Anca Giurchescu. 2006. December 24, 2010. International Council for Traditional Music.
  7. Web site: Regional meeting on the convention for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage. December 2004. Kazan. UNESCO.
  8. About the Contributors . The World of Music . 2019 . 2019 . 8 . 2 . 107–108 . 26828545.
  9. News: Adrienne L. Kaeppler 1935–2022 – an inspiring journey of discovery into Tongan culture, art, society . 7 March 2022 . Matangi . 7 March 2022.
  10. Web site: The life and legacy of Adrienne Kaeppler . RNZ . 12 March 2022 . 13 March 2022.
  11. Web site: Leader Luncheon Honorees 1977–1979. YWCA. December 23, 2010.
  12. Web site: James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific. Pacific Arts Association. December 23, 2010. December 24, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20110727161758/http://www.pacificarts.org/node/395. July 27, 2011. dead.
  13. Anthropolog: Awards (page 6). Spring 2010. December 23, 2010 . . Smithsonian Institution.
  14. Web site: Smithsonian Department of Anthropology. December 23, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20110202182639/http://anthropology.si.edu/. 2 February 2011 . live.

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