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1Author:  Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1875-1941Requires 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 
2Author:  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