Bulletin / Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology

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Prominent among the publication efforts of the Smithsonian Institution as
well as within the Libraries' collections are the works of the Bureau of
American Ethnology (BAE). Established by Congress within the Smithsonian
Institution in 1879, the Bureau of American Ethnology (initially the Bureau
of Ethnology) was given the responsibility to conduct "anthropologic
researches among the North American Indians" (Bureau of Ethnology, 1st Ann.
Rep., xi) at a time when change was occurring very rapidly. The effort that
followed lasted nearly a century and played a defining role in the
development of American anthropology as a discipline.
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