Roland W. Force’s scientific contributions

... Although living among the people about whom he wrote anticipated the approach to fieldwork that only became a norm in anthropology by the early twentieth century, Semper's undisguised affinity toward the Palauans also strengthened his claim to knowing them (Kuklick 2011). While adoption functioned to enhance status in Palau, the author framed this action more in domestic than ethnological terms (Barnett 1979;Force and Force 1972). When a local leader and his wife placed Semper under their protection, the leader's wife called him "son" and he in turn referred to her as "my mother" (Semper 1873, p. 67). ...

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Racializing Pacific Islanders: Jewish Facial Features, Popular Anthropology, and the German Colonization of the Palau Islands, 1873–1925

... In 1971, Adrienne visited the collection in the Museum für Völkerkunde, discovering that the curators knew not where the objects had come from, neither their original source nor immediate source, and the name Ashton Lever meant nothing to them. So she, armed with a volume reproducing three notebooks of detailed watercolour sketches by Sarah Stone of items in London's Leverian Museum (Force and Force 1968), set about sorting out and redocumenting the artefacts in the collection, which substantially enhanced their value and thus the reputation of the Museum. For Adrienne "detective work" was not just fun, it was essential to getting the story right and then disseminating it. ...

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Celebrating Adrienne L. Kaeppler (1935–2022)

... Other sources for the Fuller collection included gifts, exchanges, sales in private homes, antique shops and auction homes, and the selling up of the inventories from small provincial museums in England and Scotland. These sources included thirty-five individual collections (Force and Force 1971). ...

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Simpson 2010 - Captain A.W.F. Fuller's Contribution to The Field Museum's Easter Island Collection