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Rockville, MD, United States
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Fall 2023 Art and Antiques
Many years of Private Estate and collections from the greater Washington, DC area are being offered, currently, most items from Georgetown University Professor?s collection, and from Dr. Bruce Tapper.
Bruce Elliot Tapper is a social anthropologist, journalist, writer, and editor. He has published numerous articles on Telugu society and culture in Andhra Pradesh, and shadow puppets as a form of entertainment. He lived in a small village called Aripaka, close to Visakhapatnam, from 1970-72 to research the social structure and religious customs of the farmers and various other occupational communities in the village.
Tapper taught social anthropology at the University of Adelaide, South Australia in 1976-77. He then returned to the United States, where he became a seminar associate of the Southern Asian Institute, Columbia University, New York City. After obtaining an M.Sc. in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1980, he moved to Washington, D.C., where he became a writer, reporter, researcher and editor. He was an editor at the Smithsonian Associates Program in the early 1980s and then had a career as an editor at the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art, the American Occupational Therapy Association, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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