October 27, 2004: Headlines: COS - Ghana: Museums: Ames Daily Tribune: The exhibit "Iowa in Ghana," now on display at the African American Historical Museum and Cultural Center of Iowa in Cedar Rapids, pays tribute to the work of the late D. Michael Warren. Warren, an RPCV, anthropologist and leading Africanist scholar, taught at Iowa State University from 1972 until his death in 1997.
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October 27, 2004: Headlines: COS - Ghana: Museums: Ames Daily Tribune: The exhibit "Iowa in Ghana," now on display at the African American Historical Museum and Cultural Center of Iowa in Cedar Rapids, pays tribute to the work of the late D. Michael Warren. Warren, an RPCV, anthropologist and leading Africanist scholar, taught at Iowa State University from 1972 until his death in 1997.
The exhibit "Iowa in Ghana," now on display at the African American Historical Museum and Cultural Center of Iowa in Cedar Rapids, pays tribute to the work of the late D. Michael Warren. Warren, an RPCV, anthropologist and leading Africanist scholar, taught at Iowa State University from 1972 until his death in 1997.
The exhibit "Iowa in Ghana," now on display at the African American Historical Museum and Cultural Center of Iowa in Cedar Rapids, pays tribute to the work of the late D. Michael Warren. Warren, an RPCV, anthropologist and leading Africanist scholar, taught at Iowa State University from 1972 until his death in 1997.
The exhibit "Iowa in Ghana," now on display at the African American Historical Museum and Cultural Center of Iowa in Cedar Rapids, pays tribute to the work of the late D. Michael Warren.
Warren, an anthropologist and leading Africanist scholar, taught at Iowa State University from 1972 until his death in 1997.
"He was one of the lynchpins of the (anthropology) department," said David Gradwohl, an ISU professor emeritus of anthropology. "He was highly regarded by students."
"Students from all disciplines traveled to Africa to do research projects with him," he said.
Warren first went to Ghana in the mid 1960s as a science teacher in the Peace Corps. He returned to conduct his dissertation research on the medical practices among the Bono of Techiman.
The internationally respected anthropologist was especially interested in indigenous knowledge and rural development in Africa which led him to study the art, culture and the rural economy in Ghana and Nigeria.
The exhibit features 140 photographs of the Bono of Techiman taken by Warren. Also displayed are artifacts, including kente cloth, ritual and domestic clothing, jewelry and one of Warren's chieftaincy stools.
"Iowa in Ghana" can be seen at the Cedar Rapids museum through March 7, 2005. For more information, call (319) 862-2101. The Warren Collection, donated to the University of Iowa Libraries by Mary and Medina Warren, his widow and daughter, includes 4,229 books, 3,738 slides and 107 videos.
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