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	Author:	Boas, Franz, 1858-1942	Requires cookie*
	Title:	Franz Boas Papers
	Dates:	1862-1942
	Abstract:	This collection has the potential to be rich for students of attitudes toward race in the United States. Among the many topics covered are the study and teaching of anthropology, ethnography, linguistics, progressive social causes, and the expulsion of European scholars under German national socialism.
	Call #:	Mss.B.B61
	Extent:	59 Linear Feet
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	Subjects:	Albumen prints \| Andrews, H.A. \| Anthropologists -- United States. \| Anthropology -- Research -- United States \| Anthropology -- United States -- History. \| Anthropology -- United States. \| Anthropology, ethnography, fieldwork \| Arctic Indians \| Beckwith, Martha Warren, 1871-1959 \| Boas, Ernst P. (Ernst Philip), 1891-1955 \| Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 \| Bogoras, Waldemar, 1865-1936 \| Bowditch, Charles P. (Charles Pickering), 1842-1921 \| Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934 \| Bumpus, Hermon Carey, 1862-1943 \| Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947 \| Cabinet cards \| Cattell, James McKeen, 1860-1944 \| Chávez, Ezequiel Adeodato, 1868-1946 \| Crane, M. E. \| Dixon , Roland Burrage, 1875-1934 \| Engerrand, George C., 1877-1961 \| Ethnology -- North America \| Fackenthal, Frank Diehl, 1883-1968 \| Franchtenberg, Leo Joachim, 1883-1930 \| Gelatin silver prints \| Germanistic Society of America \| Gordon, George Byron, 1911- \| Heye, George G. (George Gustav), 1874-1957 \| Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956 \| Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933 \| Hrdlicka, Ales, 1869-1943 \| Indians of North America -- British Columbia \| Indians of North America -- Ethnology \| Indians of North America -- Languages \| Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast \| Indians of North America -- Nunavut \| Inuit \| Jewish scientists \| Jochelson, Waldemar, 1855-1937 \| Keppel, Frederick P. (Frederick Paul), 1875-1943 \| Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960 \| Kwakiutl Indians \| Laufer , Berthold, 1874-1934 \| Maps \| McGee, W. J., 1853-1912 \| Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938 \| Negatives \| Northwest Coast Indians \| Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1875-1941 \| Photomechanical prints \| Postcards \| Race, race relations, racism \| Radin, Paul, 1883-1959 \| Refugees, Political \| Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 \| Sargent, H. E. \| Scientists, Refugee \| Seler, Eduard \| Sketches. \| Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform \| Socialists -- United States \| Steinen, Karl von den, 1855-1929 \| Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958 \| Teit, James Alexander, 1864-1922 \| Tlingit Indians \| Tozzer, Alfred M. -- (Alfred Marston), -- 1877-1954. \| Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947 \| Woodbridge, Frederick James Eugene, 1867-1940

	Author:	Hymes, Dell H.	Requires cookie*
	Title:	Dell H. Hymes Papers
	Dates:	1885-2006
	Abstract:	The following materials may be of interest to scholars of African American history: Baugh, John. Manuscript Materials. n.d. 5 folders (Approximately 105 pages). Typed materials of Baugh, a former student of Hymes, concerning African American language dialects--standard African American English and African American vernacular English. Includes several research proposals: "Black English Style Shifting," "Formal Refinement of the Notion for Rules within the Labovian Variable Paradigm," "Linguistic Characteristics of Afro-American Ethnicity Detection: Targets for the Acquisition of Standard English," "The Social Stratification of Black and Hispanic English;" and, a survey which was published in the Annual Review of Anthropology (1983): "A survey of Afro-American English."
	Call #:	Mss.Ms.Coll.55
	Extent:	ca. 176 Linear Feet
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	Subjects:	Aberle, David F., 1918- \| American Academy of Arts and Sciences \| American Anthropological Association \| American Association of Applied Linguistics \| American Folklore Society \| Anthropologists -- United States. \| Anthropology, ethnography, fieldwork \| Austerlitz, Robert, 1923-1994 \| Basso, Keith, 1940- \| Baugh, John \| Bauman, Richard \| Ben-Amos, Dan \| Bennett, Ruth S. \| Bernstein, Basil \| Bright, William, 1928-2006 \| Burke, Kenneth,1897-1993 \| Cambridge University Press \| Cathlamet dialect \| Cazden, Courtney, 1925- \| Chinookan languages \| Chomsky, Noam \| Cowgill, George L. \| Creole dialects \| Diamond, Stanley \| Douglas, Mary, 1921- \| Dozier, Edward, 1916-1971 \| Driver, Harold \| Duranti, Alessandro, 1950- \| Durbin, Marshall \| Dyk, Walter, 1899-1972 \| Embree, Lester \| Fought, John. \| Frake, Charles O. \| French, David H. \| Friedrich , Paul \| Fromm, Erich,1900-1980 \| Goffman, Erving \| Goodenough, Ward Hunt \| Gregorian, Vartan, 1934- \| Grimshaw, Allen D. \| Gumperz, John J. (John Joseph), 1922-2013 \| Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 \| Harris, Marvin, 1927-2001 \| Harris, Zellig S. (Zellig Sabbettai), 1909-1992 \| Hiz, Henry T. \| Hockett, Charles, 1916- \| Hoenigswald, Henry M., 1915-20 \| Hoijer, Harry, 1904-1976 \| Hymes, Dell H. \| Indians of North America -- Ethnology \| Indians of North America -- Languages \| Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast \| Indians of North America -- Oregon \| Irvine, Judith. \| Jacobs, Melville, 1902-1971 \| Jakobson, Roman, 1896-1982 \| Koerner, E.F. Konrad, \| Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960 \| Kroeber, Theodora \| Labov, William, 1927- \| Language in Society \| Language, linguistics \| Languages, Mixed \| Lévi-Strauss, Claude \| Linguistic Society of America. \| Linguistics \| Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn \| Martin, Paul S., 1899-1974 \| McDermott, Ray \| Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 \| Mintz, Sidney Wilfred \| Mouton Publishers \| Nader, Laura, 1930- \| Neustupny, Jiri \| Nida, Eugene A. \| Philips, Susan U. \| Pidgin languages \| Race, race relations, racism \| Ramsey, Jarold \| Rigsby, Bruce Joseph \| Sankoff, Gillian \| Sapir, J. David \| Sapir, Philip \| Schneider, David M., 1918-1995 \| Scholte, Bob, 1902-1983 \| Sebeok, Thomas A., 1920-2001 \| Shahaptian languages \| Sherzer, Joel. \| Shuy, Roger W. \| Silverstein, Michael \| Snyder, Gary, 1930- \| Social Science Research Council. Institute in Law and Social Relations \| Stocking, George W. \| Sturtevant, William C. \| Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 \| Szwed, John F. \| Tax, Sol, 1907-1995 \| Tedlock, Dennis, 1939- \| Toelken, Barre, 1935- \| University of Pennsylvania Press \| University of Pennsylvania-Annenberg School of Communication \| University of Pennsylvania-Department of Anthropology \| University of Pennsylvania-Department of Folklore & Folklife \| University of Pennsylvania-Department of Linguistics \| University of Pennsylvania-Department of Sociology \| University of Pennsylvania-Graduate School of Education \| University of Pennsylvania. \| Voegelin, C.F. (Charles Freder \| Wallace, Anthony F. C., 1923-2015 \| Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research \| Worth, Sol, 1922-1977

	Author:	Montagu, Ashley, 1905-1999	Requires cookie*
	Title:	Ashley Montagu Papers, 1927-1999
	Dates:	1927-1999
	Abstract:	Scholars of African American history will find much useful information on the subject of race in this collection.
	Call #:	Mss.Ms.Coll.109
	Extent:	57 Linear Feet
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	Subjects:	Abbie, Andrew Arthur, 1905-1976 \| Anthropology \| Anthropology, ethnography, fieldwork \| Askenasy, Hans \| Benton, William, 1900-1973 \| Biology, genetics, eugenics \| Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 \| Briffault, Robert \| Buhler, Charlotte Malachowski, 1893-1974 \| Carpenter, Edmund, 1922-2011 \| Clark, Wilfrid E. Le Gros (Wilfrid Edward Le Gros), 1895-1971 \| Dobzhansky, Theodosius Grigorievich, 1900-1975 \| Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 \| Eisler, Riane Tennenhaus \| Elkin, A. P. (Adolphus Peter), 1891-1979 \| Evans, Bergen, 1904-1978 \| Freeman, Derek \| Fromm, Erich,1900-1980 \| Gender \| Goldstein, Marcus S. (Marcus Solomon), 1906-1997 \| Gould, Stephen Jay \| Keith, Arthur, Sir, 1866-1955 \| Kluckhohn, Clyde, 1905-1960 \| La Barre, Weston, 1911-1996 \| Matson, Floyd W. \| McLuhan, Marshall, 1911-1980 \| Meade, Margaret, 1901-1978 \| Montagu, Ashley, 1905-1999 \| Oakley, Kenneth Page \| Race, race relations, racism \| Race. \| Sarton, George, 1884-1956 \| Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform \| Social inequality \| Sorokin, Pitirim Aleksandrovich, 1889-1968 \| Yerkes, Robert Mearns, 1876-1956

	Author:	Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1875-1941	Requires cookie*
	Title:	Elsie Clews Parsons Papers
	Dates:	1880-1980
	Abstract:	Of particular interest to scholars of African American history is Parson's research in folklore. Parson produced three major monographs on African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans: Folk-Lore from the Cape Verde Islands (1923), Folk-Lore of the Sea Islands, S.C. (1924), and Folk-Lore of the Antilles, French and English (3 volumes, 1933-1943). Materials which may be of interest in the collection include: correspondence (e.g. with Melville Herskovits, Anson Phelps Stokes, and Franz Boas); several manuscripts -- "Arabic elements in Negro Folk Tales," "Folklore from Georgia," 1934, "Negro Folklore" (5 folders), "Old signs in Alabama" and "Spirituals in Alabama," "Provenience of certain Negro folk-tales" (6 folders) in Series III; and research notes on African American folklore (Series IV).
	Call #:	Mss.Ms.Coll.29
	Extent:	38.25 Linear Feet
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	Subjects:	American Anthropological Association \| American Folklore Society \| Anthropology, ethnography, fieldwork \| Balch, Ernesto \| Beals, Ralph L. (Ralph Leon), 1901-1985 \| Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1848 \| Birth control. \| Blacks -- Jamaica -- Folklore \| Boardman, Ruth \| Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 \| Bourne, Randolph \| Bovey, Charles \| Brice, Kirkpatrick \| Bunzel, Ruth Leah, 1898-1990 \| Camody, Mary \| Cole, Fay-Cooper, 1881-1961 \| Culture, community, organizations \| Day, Clarence \| Eastman, Max, 1883-1969 \| Eggan, Fred, 1906-1991 \| Feminism. \| Fitz, Reginald \| Folklore \| Folklore -- Jamaica \| Galton, Francis, Sir, 1822-1911 \| Gelatin silver prints \| Goddard, Pliny Earle, 1869-1928 \| Goldenweiser, Alexander, 1880-1940 \| Greece -- Description and travel -- 20th century \| Hackett, Francis \| Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving), 1892-1974 \| Hare, Peter \| Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963 \| Hopi Indians \| Hughes, Larry \| Illustrations. \| Indians of Central America \| Indians of Mexico \| Indians of North America -- Arizona \| Indians of North America -- British Columbia \| Indians of North America -- New Mexico \| Indians of South America -- Ecuador \| Isleta Indians \| Johnson, Alvin \| Kidder, Alfred Vincent, 1885-1963 \| Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960 \| Kwakiutl Indians \| La Farge, G. Grant \| La Farge, Oliver, 1901-1963 \| Law, George \| Lewis, Margaret \| Looking Elk, Albert \| Lowie, Robert Harry, 1883-1957 \| Luhan, Mabel Dodge \| Nitrate negatives \| Opler, Morris Edward, 1907-1996 \| Pacificism \| Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1875-1941 \| Parsons, John E. \| Peace movements -- 20th century \| Phillipine Islands -- Description and travel -- 20th century \| Pueblo Indians \| Quechua Indians \| Redfield, Robert, 1897-1958 \| Reichard, Gladys Amanda, 1893-1955 \| Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 \| Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 \| Sketches. \| Southwest Indians \| Spier, Leslie \| Stephen, Alexander M. \| Taft, William Howard, 1857-193 \| Taos Indians \| Tewa Indians \| Thompson, Stith \| Titiev, Morris \| True, Clara \| University of California, Berkeley. Anthropology Department. \| Watercolors \| White, Leslie A. \| World War, 1914-1918 \| Young, George \| Zuni Indians

	Author:	Snyderman, George Simon, 1908-2000	Requires cookie*
	Title:	George S. Snyderman Papers
	Dates:	1758-1995
	Abstract:	This collection contains at least one item which may be of interest to students of African American history: Frobenius, Leo. "Early African Culture as an Indication of Present Negro Potentialities." n.d. 9 pages. The cultures of the people of Africa vary greatly across the African continent. The paper examines the differences and commonalities of various historical African cultures and their effect on the "potentialities of present-day Negroes in Africa and America."
	Call #:	Mss.Ms.Coll.51
	Extent:	3 Linear Feet
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	Subjects:	Africa \| Akwesasne Counselor Organization \| Allegany Reservation (N.Y.) \| Anthropology, ethnography, fieldwork \| Cayuga Indians \| Culture, community, organizations \| Delaware Indians \| Ethnohistory \| Ettawageshik, Fred, 1896-1969 \| Gelatin silver prints \| Haudenosaunee \| Indians of North America -- New York (State) \| Iowa -- Maps \| Iroquois Indians \| Iroquois Indians -- Dwellings \| Iroquois dance \| Maps. \| Missouri -- Maps \| Mohawk Indians -- Social life and customs \| Ohio -- Maps \| Oneida Indians -- Wisconsin \| Parrish, John \| Phillips, John \| Photographic prints -- Color \| Photographs \| Postcards \| Seneca Indians -- Missions \| Seneca Indians -- New York (State) \| Seneca Indians -- Religion \| Seneca Indians -- Social life and customs \| Seneca masks \| Snyderman, George Simon, 1908-2000 \| Society of Friends -- Missions \| Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 \| Wampum

	Author:	Willis, William Shedrick,1921-	Requires cookie*
	Title:	William Shedrick Willis papers, [ca. 1940-1983]
	Dates:	Circa 1940-1983
	Abstract:	In addition to providing insight into the life of an African American scholar during the civil rights era, this collection may afford students of African American history useful information in a number of areas of interest. Of special note are the lecture materials on the courses Willis taught in anthropology, history of anthropology, and African American studies, while at SMU and at summer sessions at Columbia University during the 1960s-1970s.
	Call #:	Mss.Ms.Coll.30
	Extent:	13 Linear Feet
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	Subjects:	Abolition, emancipation, freedom \| African Americans -- Study and teaching \| Anthropology \| Anthropology -- History \| Anthropology, ethnography, fieldwork \| Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1848 \| Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 \| Civil rights \| Columbia University -- Faculty. \| Columbia University -- Students. \| Culture, community, organizations \| Herzog, George, 1901-1983 \| Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960 \| Labor, industrialization \| Linton, Ralph, 1893-1953 \| Mahon,, J.K. \| Mintz, Sidney Wilfred \| Plantations \| Race, race relations, racism \| Reconstruction \| Religion, religious organizations \| Segregation \| Slaves, slavery, slave trade \| Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform \| Southern Methodist University -- Faculty. \| Steward, Julian Haynes, 1902-1972 \| Strong, William Duncan, 1899-1 \| Sturtevant, William C. \| Wagley, Charles \| Weltfish, Gene \| White, Leslie A., 1900-1972 \| White, Leslie A., 1900-1975. \| Willis, William Shedrick,1921-

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	Title:	American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society [ACLS Collection]
	Dates:	1853, 1882-1959
	Abstract:	There are at least two items in this collection which may be of interest to scholars of African American history: Hurston, Zora Neale. " The Florida Expedition (#46)." n.d. 3 pages. Brief report by a student of Franz Boas on fieldwork in Florida studying African American folklore, story-telling, religion, and common-held beliefs. Hurston notes that "the bulk of the population now spends its leisure in motion picture theatres or with the phonograph and its blues." King, Louis E. " Negro life in a rural community (#49)." Circa 1931. 166 pages. Anthropological dissertation study of African American life in a rural community during the years 1927-1931. The work is divided into several sections: Background, Family Life, Breadwinning and Shelter, Education, Activities of the Group, Leaving Home, and Comparing Life in Different Rural Communities..
	Call #:	Mss.497.3.B63c
	Extent:	80 Linear Feet
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	Subjects:	'Nak'waxda'xw \| 'Namgis \| Achumawi language \| African Americans -- Florida \| African Americans -- Folklore \| African Americans -- West Virginia \| Airplanes \| American ginseng \| Anishinaabe \| Anthropology, ethnography, fieldwork \| Ants -- Folklore \| Athapascan languages \| Atsugewi language \| Autobiography \| Awa'etłala \| Babies -- Care \| Banister, John, Jr. \| Baptists -- North Carolina -- History \| Basket making \| Bears \| Bella Coola Indians \| Bella Coola language \| Benin -- History \| Betrothal \| Birds -- Folklore \| Cats -- Folklore \| Chatino language \| Chehalis language \| Cherokee Indians -- Economic conditions \| Cherokee Indians -- Education \| Cherokee Indians -- Fishing \| Cherokee Indians -- Folklore \| Cherokee Indians -- Funeral customs and rites \| Cherokee Indians -- Games \| Cherokee Indians -- Government relations \| Cherokee Indians -- History \| Cherokee Indians -- Land tenure \| Cherokee Indians -- Marriage customs and rites \| Cherokee Indians -- Material culture \| Cherokee Indians -- Medicine \| Cherokee Indians -- Military service \| Cherokee Indians -- Music \| Cherokee Indians -- Politics and government \| Cherokee Indians -- Religion \| Cherokee Indians -- Rites and ceremonies \| Cherokee Indians -- Social life and customs \| Cherokee Indians -- Violence against -- Tennessee \| Cherokee dance \| Cherokee language \| Child care \| Children -- Death \| Chimakum language \| Chinese language \| Chiricahua language \| Christianity -- Africa \| Chukchi -- History \| Clothing and dress -- Middle East \| Comox Indians \| Corn -- Folklore \| Creation -- Mythology \| Cree language \| Culture, community, organizations \| Cyanotypes \| DEnaxdax \| Da'naxda'xw \| Dakota language \| Dictionaries. \| Dogs -- Folklore \| Drawings. \| Dzawada'enuxw \| Ethnographic texts \| Ethnology -- Africa \| Ethnology -- Russia \| Ethnology -- United States \| Face painting \| Fairs -- North Carolina \| Field notes. \| Fijians -- Social life and customs \| Fire -- Folklore \| Folk music -- Puerto Rico \| Folklore \| Folklore -- Africa \| Folklore -- British Columbia \| Folklore -- Florida \| Folklore -- Uganda \| Gelatin silver prints \| Geological Survey of Canada. \| Ghost stories \| Ghosts -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia \| Gop'inuxw \| Gourds \| Group portraits \| Gusgimukw \| Gwasala \| Ha'xwamis \| Haida Indians \| Haida language \| Haudenosaunee \| Heiltsuk Indians \| Hoijer, Harry, 1904-1976 \| Hopi language \| Hupa language \| Hymns \| Illustrations. \| Imprisonment -- North Carolina \| Indians of North America -- Alaska \| Indians of North America -- British Columbia \| Indians of North America -- Languages \| Inuktitut language \| Jenness, Diamond, 1886-1969 \| Jews, Ethiopian \| Kalapuya language \| Kalibala, Ernest B. \| Kalispel language \| Kathlamet language \| Kidder, Alfred Vincent, 1885-1963 \| Kootenai language \| Koskimo \| Kwagu'ł \| Kwakiutl language \| Kwikwasutinuxw \| Laguna dialect \| Lillooet language \| Linguistics \| Ma'amtagila \| Makah Indians \| Mamalilikala \| Mandan language \| Maps. \| Mayan languages \| Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938 \| Milky Way -- Folklore \| Mooney, James, 1861-1921 \| Mukasa, Ham, 1871-1956 \| Nahuatl language \| Nass language \| Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- North Carolina \| Navajo language \| Nez Percé language \| Nitinat language \| Nootka Indians \| Nootka language \| North Carolina \| Northwest Coast Indians \| Ntlakyapamuk language \| Nuu-chah-nulth \| Nuxalk Indians \| Ojibwe people \| Omens \| Oowekeeno Indians \| Owls -- Folklore \| Philadelphia (Pa.) \| Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Description and travel \| Photographs \| Photomechanical prints \| Plantations \| Pleiades -- Folklore \| Pomo language \| Powwows \| Quileute Indians \| Quileute language \| Rabbits -- Folklore \| Religion, religious organizations \| Salish Indians \| Salishan languages \| Sarsi Indians \| Sarsi language \| Sermons \| Shasta language \| Sioux Nation \| Sketches. \| Slip files \| Smallpox -- United States -- History \| Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform \| Social psychology \| Sound recordings \| Sturtevant, Edgar Howard, 1875-1952 \| Swearing \| Tarahumara language \| Tarascan language \| Tlingit Indians \| Tlingit language \| Tolowa language \| Trail of Tears, 1838-1839 \| Tsetsaut Indians \| Tsimshian language \| Tsuut'ina language \| Tunica language \| Turtles -- Folklore \| Twi (African people) \| Tłatłasikwala \| United States -- Emigration and immigration. \| United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.) \| Volga River Region (Russia) -- History \| Wailaki language \| Warren, John \| Watercolors \| Winnebago language \| Wintu language \| Witches -- Folklore \| Word lists \| World War I \| World War, 1939-1945 \| Wuikinuxv \| Xuyalas \| Yana language \| Zapotec language \| Ławit'sis