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...National Geographic (another will appear in the October issue). Most important to scholars, though, is the fact that Beckwith and Fisher are making the collection available to researchers--a priceless ethnographic archive that will endure no matter what happens to the tribes. Beckwith and Fisher, says art historian Christine Mullen Kreamer of the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, "are making valuable contributions to the visual anthropology of Africa...
...truth, say scholars, is that it won't make much difference in the end. The pressures on traditional African ceremonies are inexorable. Many ethnologists believe these changes are, in fact, part of the natural life cycle of such rituals. "African traditions are not vanishing," says Mullen Kreamer of the National Museum of Natural History. "They are changing. Even ceremonies that have been performed for hundreds of years have changed throughout the centuries as people adapt to new stimuli and new ideas." Still, there is a poignancy in Beckwith and Fisher's images, a sense that we are seeing some...
...Mullen was born in Hingham, Mass., and attended Bowdoin College...
Before his retirement in 1984, Mullen had spent 15 years as director of the Harvard Cooperative Society and also worked as a director of purchasing for Harvard...
...addition to serving on the board of directors at the COOP, Mullen was a member of the advisory board to the Barnstable Conservation Federation...