Wilton S Dillon: 2 books
Smithsonian Stories
Chronicle of a Golden Age, 1964-1984
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Why is the Smithsonian more than the "Nation's Attic?" Or more than a museum complex? As Wilton S. Dillon shows, the Smithsonian came to be the institution we know today under the twenty-year leadership of "Sun King" S. Dillon Ripley.Ripley aspired to reinvent the Smithsonian as...
Gifts and Nations
The Obligation to Give, Receive and Repay
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
What can men in industrial nations learn from their "primitive" contemporaries, and the habits of earlier civilizations? This book by acclaimed cultural anthropologist Wilton S. Dillon suggests that modern political, religious, and scientific communities--and alliances--would be enhanced...