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2019-03-01T18:45:15.000Z
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Video Title:
The 111th Material Culture Forum: Doug Herman
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The 111th Material Culture Forum's topic is "The Art and Science of Celestial Navigation Across the Smithsonian Universe." In this segment, Doug Herman, Senior Geographer, National Museum of American Indian, speaks on "The Art of Oceanic Celestial Navigation". Doug specializes in the cultural knowledge of Hawai‘i and Pacific Islands. As a member of the Polynesian Voyaging Society, he crewed on their famous canoe Hōkūleʻa for a leg of their World Wide Voyage. He holds a PhD and MA, Geography, and Certificate, Urban and Regional Planning, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa; AB, Comparative Religion modified with Geography, Dartmouth College. Since 1988, the Smithsonian Institution Material Culture Forum has been organizing quarterly meetings that offer staff with opportunities to interact with their colleagues in other disciplines, to share information about their fields, to think about different directions in their research, to develop new collaborative projects, or, to just learn. The Forum considers topics from the vast world of objects that the Smithsonian collects, preserves, studies, and presents. The Forum is welcome to all, including members of the outside academic community. This meeting was recorded in the Rasmuson Theater of the National Museum of the American Indian on February 27, 2019.
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8 min 22 sec
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