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= Albert_Jenks =
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Albert Ernest Jenks (1869-1953) was an American anthropologist and a
professor at the University of Minnesota. He was known for his work in
historical anthropological studies on rice cultivation, the
development of hominids, and his identification of the skeletal
remains of Minnesota Woman, 8,000-year old human remains found near
Pelican Rapids, Minnesota. He joined the United States Bureau of
Ethnology in 1901 and served in the U.S. colonial government of the
Philippines from 1902 to 1905. In this capacity, he was involved in
the exhibition of Bontoc Igorot people at the 1904 Louisiana Universal
Exposition in St. Louis (St. Louis World's Fair). The collection of
Bontoc objects that he assembled for the Exposition was purchased by
the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He joined the
faculty of the University of Minnesota in 1906 as a member of the
Department of Sociology. He was promoted to full professor in 1907 and
served as chair of the sociology department from 1915 until 1918. In
1918, he was a founder of the Department of Anthropology at the
University of Minnesota and he served as the chair of that department
until his retirement in 1936.
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