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Rose Yavneh Taylor is an anthropologist, art historian, researcher and author.
She specialises in socio-cultural and visual anthropology, contemporary Native American art, material and visual culture. 

She is the Curator for the North America collection at the British Museum.
She held a research fellowship at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C.; worked with the illustrations, archives and economic botany collections of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew for 2 years and was previously the Project Curator of The Endangered Material Knowledge Programme at the British Museum.


Her first book, 365 Days Past the Traffic Lights, helping young people to cope with grief, was published in 2019.
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PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC INTERESTS​

  • Indigenous rights

  • Visual and material culture

  • Native North American contemporary art

  • Museum anthropology and professional museum work

  • Art, art history, anthropology of art

  • Ethnobotany

  • Intersection of social and environmental anthropology

  • Political and diaspora identities

  • Urban ethnography

  • Environmental sustainability

  • Women’s empowerment

  • Current affairs and politics

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