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Kris L. Hardin (March 7, 1953 – August 21, 2012), anthropologist and writer, was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. She carried out an extensive anthropological study in the Kono district of Sierra Leone.〔 Hardin was born in Fresno, California, daughter of Douglas and Eleanor Hardin.〔(Obituary ) Michael Katakis Web site. Accessed September 24, 2014〕 She was awarded a PhD in anthropology from Indiana University, a Fulbright scholarship, a Rockefeller scholarship, and a fellowship by the Smithsonian Institution.〔 Following completion of her formal study, she spent several years doing fieldwork amongst the Kono people of Kainkordu, a Chiefdom of Sierra Leone in the Kono District. Upon her return from Sierra Leone, she met, and later married, writer and photographer Michael Katakis, with whom she spent 25 years collaborating on projects throughout the world. Together, they produced exhibitions and books derived from their work.〔(Kris Hardin, Michael Katakis donate work to Britain ) SFGATE, January 8, 2011. Accessed September 24, 2014.〕〔 In 2009 the results of their activities, comprising thousands of pages of field notes and photographs,〔(The Agony Column Live with Rick Kleffel ) August 20, 2011. Accessed September 24, 2014.〕 were presented to the British Library. Interviews were held which included a joint interview with Katakis and Hardin and two individual life story interviews. An exhibition, 'Michael Katakis Photographs', was held in the British Library, which featured photographs from the projects 'The Vietnam Veterans Memorial', 'Troubled Land: 12 Days Across America' (a portrait of the US in the days after the September 11 attacks) and 'A Time and Place Before War', which documented life in Sierra Leone before the outbreak of Sierra Leone Civil War in 1991).〔(Michael Katakis and Kris Hardin Recordings. ) Accessed September 24, 2014.〕 Hardin was a painter who produced work in oil and watercolor.〔 In 1999 she was elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and in 2011 she was presented to Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth.〔 Hardin died on August 21, 2012 as a result of brain tumor.〔 == Bibliography == * ''The Aesthetics of Action: Continuity and Change in a West African Town'',1993 by Kris L. Hardin with photographs by Michael Katakis, 1993, Washington, DC.: Smithsonian Institution Press. * ''African Material Culture'', 1996, Mary Jo Arnoldi, Christraud M. Geary, Kris L. Hardin (editors), Bloomington: Indiana University Press. * ''Photographs & words'', 2011, by Michael Katakis with additional text and materials by Kris L. Hardin), London, England: The British Library. * ''A Time and Place Before War: Images and Reflections from a West African Town'', Photographs by Michael Katakis, Introduction by Kris Hardin, Ph.D., 2002, Bozeman, Montana: Sapere Press. * ''The Vietnam Veterans Memorial'', 1988, Photographs by Michael Katakis, Essay by Kris L. Hardin, Ph.D., New York: Crown Publishers Inc. * ''Expedition'', "Representing Africa: Whose Story Counts?", 1993, by Kris L Hardin Ph.D. with photographs by Michael Katakis, The University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Volume 35, No.3, 1993. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kris L. Hardin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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