Adrienne L. Kaeppler | |
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| Born | July 26, 1935 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Died | March 5, 2022 (aged 86) Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Occupation | Curator of Oceanic Ethnology at the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution. |
| Known for | Research on Tonga and Captain Cook |
Adrienne Lois Kaeppler (July 26, 1935 – March 5, 2022) was an American anthropologist, curator of oceanic ethnology at the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.[1] She served as the President of the International Council on Traditional Music between 2005 and 2013.[2] Her research focused on the interrelationships between social structure and the arts, including dance, music, and the visual arts, especially in Tonga and Hawaii.[3] She was considered to be an expert on Tongan dance, and the voyages of the 18th-century explorer James Cook.
- ^ Miller, Robert (December 28, 2001). "Easter Island". The News-Times.
- ^ Kaeppler, Adrienne L.; Dunin, Elsie Ivancich, eds. (2007). Dance structures: Perspectives on the analysis of human movement. Budapest: Akademiai Kiado. ISBN 978-963-05-8542-2.
- ^ Sperlich, Tobias (2006). "Embodied inter-cultural dialogues: The biography of a Samoan necklace in Cologne" (PDF). Journal of the Polynesian Society.