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Article: Object lessons in living culture Science museum's retiring ethnology curator became a link to American Indians.(Spotlight)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- December 8, 2005
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Byline: Mary Voelz Chandler, Rocky Mountain News
When Joyce Herold was growing up in Texas, the daughter of an immigrant from Czechoslovakia, she thought of herself as "an other."
The otherness of culture, a "different" ingredient in the purported American melting pot, has since led her to take an expansive look at the world around her in a career studying objects and the people who made, used and treasured them.
"I was deeply aware of culture and society, including the qualities and strengths of different peoples," said Herold, who for more than 30 years has explored worlds as varied as the Hmong, the Jicarilla Apache, the Cheyenne and ...