Adrienne L. Kaeppler

Adrienne Lois Kaeppler (July 26, 1935 – March 5, 2022) was an American

Kaeppler was a majorette for her high school band, played violin in high school orchestra, and studied voice at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music.[8]

Kaeppler died on March 5, 2022, at the age of 86.^[9][10]

Awards

In 1978, Kaeppler was honored by the YWCA as a leading female scientist whose work increased the understanding of native cultures.^[11]

Kaeppler was also lauded for the book James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific (published in 2009). The work was recognized with the 2010 First International Tribal Art Book Prize, organized by Tribal Art magazine in partnership with Sotheby's Paris Headquarters,^[12] and in April 2010, it was named Book of the Month by Hodern House in Australia.^[13]

In 2010, Kaeppler delivered a Smithsonian Secretary's Distinguished Research Lecture Award, which "recognizes a scholar’s sustained achievement in research, longstanding investment in the Smithsonian, and outstanding contribution to a field, as well as his or her ability to communicate research to a non-specialist audience."^[14]

Publications

Selected writing

• The structure of Tongan dance (doctoral dissertation). Honolulu: Anthropology Department, University of Hawaii. 1967.
• Kaeppler, Adrienne L. (1971). "Tongan dance: a study in cultural change".
  JSTOR 849801
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• Kaeppler, Adrienne L. (1971). "Aesthetics of Tongan Dance". Ethnomusicology. 15 (2). Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University: 175–185.
  JSTOR 850464
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• Kaeppler, Adrienne L. (March 1974). "Cook Voyage Provenance of the 'Artificial Curiosities' of Bullock's Museum".
  JSTOR 2800037
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• ""L'Aigle" and HMS "Blonde": The Use of History in the Study of Ethnography". Hawaiian Journal of History. 12. Hawaii Historical Society: 28–44. 1978.
  hdl:10524/620
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• Poetry in Motion: Studies in Tongan Dance, 1993
• Hula Pahu.
  ISBN 978-0-930897-55-0
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• Polynesian and Micronesian sections of Oceanic Art, published in French, German, and English, 1993–1997
• From the Stone Age to the Space Age in 200 Years: Tongan Art and Society on the Eve of the Millennium, 1999
• Kaeppler, Adrienne L. (2001). "Dance and the concept of style".
  JSTOR 1519630
  .
• The Pacific Arts of Polynesia and Micronesia, Oxford University Press, 2008
• Fleck, Robert (2009). James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific. Thames & Hudson Ltd.
  ISBN 978-0-500-51516-7
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• Polynesia: The Mark and Carolyn Blackburn Collection of Polynesian Art. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaiʻi Press. 2010.
  ISBN 978-1-883-52838-6
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• Holophusicon--the Leverian Museum : an eighteenth-century English institution of science, curiosity, and art. Altenstadt, Germany Honolulu, HI: ZKF Publishers Distributed in the United States by Bishop Museum Press. 2011.
  ISBN 978-3-9811620-4-2
  .