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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,Jenks, Albert Ernest (1936) Pleistocene Man in Minnesota: A Fossil HomoSapiens. Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press. and his identification of the skeletal remains of Minnesota Woman, 8,000-year old human remains found near Pelican Rapids, Minnesota."Minnesota Man: A Response to a Review by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka," American Anthropologist 40 (2): 328-336. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1525/aa.1938.40.2.02a00290/pdf 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 people at the 1904 Louisiana Universal Exposition in St. Louis (St. Louis World's Fair).Jenks, Albert Ernest (1905). The Bontoc Igorot. Manila: Bureau of Public Printing. The collection of Bontoc objects that he assembled for the Exposition was purchased by the American Museum of Natural History in New York.Brady, Tim (2008). Primitive Thinking. Minnesota Alumni Magazine http://www.minnesotaalumni.org/s/1118/content.aspx?sid=1118&gid=1&pgid=1096 (accessed 30 April 2013) 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.University of Minnesota Department of Anthropology. Academic Anthropology http://anthropology.umn.edu/labs/wlnaa/history/academic.html (accessed 30 April 2013)
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