New Exhibition at the Penn Museum Offers Intimate Look at Homelessness and Addiction in Urban America December 5, 2009 through May 2010 Anthropologist Philippe Bourgois and photographer-ethnographer Jeff Schonberg spent more than a decade among a community of heroin injectors and crack smokers who survive on the streets of San Francisco's former industrial neighborhoods. Their extensive research formed the subject of a provocative new book, Righteous Dopefiend (University of California Press, Berkeley, 2009), and now, a new exhibition. Righteous Dopefiend: Homelessness, Addiction, and Poverty in Urban America, opens Saturday, December 5, 2009 at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia and More...

Penn Museum's Free Holiday Family CelebrationSunday December 6, 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm Grab your "Passport" and get into the spirit of the holiday season Sunday, December 6th, 1:00 to 4:00 pm, with the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology's 14th annual FREE Peace Around the World family afternoon. All visitors receive Museum "passports" with itineraries to visit ten countries via ten International Classroom speakers and explore holiday traditions in countries around the world. The day also features holiday choir music by children and adults, Maya storytelling, face painting, balloon art, international family crafts, free treats for children, and More...

Landscapes of Movement originates from the premise that trails, paths, and roads are the physical manifestation of human movement through the landscape and are central to an understanding of that movement. The study of these features connects with many intellectual domains, engaging history, geography, environmental studies, and, in particular, anthropology and archaeology. These diverse fields together provide not only a better understanding of infrastructure but also of social, political, and economic organization, cultural expressions of patterned movement, and the ways in which trails, paths, and roads reflect a culture's traditional knowledge, worldview, memory, and identity. The contributors to Landscapes of Movement document these routes across different times and cultures, from those made by hunter-gatherers in the Great Basin of North More...