Weeks, John M.

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Head, Library, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
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John M. Weeks served as Head of the Museum Library at University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology from 1997 until 2015, in which role he was Penn Libraries’ subject specialist for anthropology and archaeology. He held a BA, MA, and PhD in anthropology and an MLS in librarianship.
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  • Publication
    The Daniel Garrison Brinton Collection
    (2000-01-01) Weeks, John M.
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    Machu Picchu
    (2013-01-01) Weeks, John
    Suggested readings for the Penn Alumni Travel trip to Machu Picchu. See the Library Guide for this bibliography here.
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    The library of Daniel Garrison Brinton
    (University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.) Weeks; Weeks, John M.
    This book includes an introductory essay and item-by-item catalog for the personal library of Daniel Garrison Brinton. First a professor of Ethnology and Anthropology at the Academy of Natural Sciences, then later Penn’s first Professor of Archaeology and Linguistics, Brinton (1837-1899) is considered one of the fathers of American anthropology. He built a substantial personal library of over 4000 items, mainly focused on the languages and culture of indigenous peoples of North and Central America. It included several early-modern manuscripts, modern transcriptions, and early printed books from the estate of ethnologist and linguistic scholar, Carl Hermann Berendt (1817-1878), and from the Mayanist, Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg (1814-1874). After his death, Brinton’s library passed to the Penn Museum for the creation of the Penn Museum Library in 1900.