| | Author: | Babcock, Barbara A., 1943- and Nancy J. Parezo | | | | | Babcock teaches in the Department of English, University of Arizona. Parezo teaches in American Indian Studies and Anthropology, University of Arizona | |
| | | Title: | Women Anthropologists and the Native American Southwest, 1880-1945
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1986 | | | | Extent: | 28 leaves | | | | Abstract: | Brief biographical discussions of over 30 women who worked in the southwestern United States between 1880 and 1945. It was published as "The leading edge: Women anthropologists in the native American Southwest, 1880-1945," El Palacio 92 (1986) | | | | Source: | Women Anthropologists and the Native American Southwest, 1880-1945 (301.092 B11w) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Bachman, John, 1790-1874 | | | | | Natural historian, clergyman, monogenist | |
| | | Title: | Letters to John Audubon, Samuel Morton, and John Torrey
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | Circa 1836-1854 | | | | Extent: | 16 letters | | | | Abstract: | The Bachman correspondence includes letters to John Audubon, Samuel G. Morton, and John Torrey, almost exclusively on natural history. Included in the Morton correspondence (B M843) is a letter of 17 March 1837 discussing Indian craniology. | | | | Source: | John James Audubon Papers (B Au25) Samuel George Morton Papers (B M843) John Torrey Papers (B T63.1) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| | Author: | Bandelier, Adolf F., 1840-1914 | | | | | Archaeologist, historian. American Museum of Natural History, 1903-1914; lecturer, American archaeology, Columbia University, 1904-1914. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Adolf Bandelier and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 20 June 1905 - 7 January 1910 | | | | Extent: | 11 letters | | | | Abstract: | 11 letters (8 to Boas, 3 to Bandelier). Employment at Columbia; personal. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Barbeau, Charles Marius, 1883-1969 | | | | | Anthropologist. Anthropologist, National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, 1911-1948, consultant, 1948-1969; professor, Loyola University, 1945-1955, emeritus professor, 1955-1969; lecturer, Montreal University; co-editor, Journal of American Folklore, 1916-1969 | |
| | | Title: | Arthur Greenwood. Time Stone Farm
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1948 | | | | Extent: | 392 leaves | | | | Abstract: | Indian captivities material, compiled by Barbeau | | | | Source: | Time Stone Farm (016.9701 G842b) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | |
| | Author: | Barbeau, Charles Marius, 1883-1969 | | | | | Anthropologist. Anthropologist, National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, 1911-1948, consultant, 1948-1969; professor, Loyola University, 1945-1955, emeritus professor, 1955-1969; lecturer, Montreal University; co-editor, Journal of American Folklore, 1916-1969 | |
| | | Title: | Calendar of Indian Captivities and Allied Documents
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1954 | | | | Extent: | Approximately 400 leaves | | | | Abstract: | Indian captivities material. Typed. | | | | Source: | Calendar of Indian Captivities and Allied Documents (016.9701 B235) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | |
| | Author: | Barbeau, Charles Marius, 1883-1969 | | | | | Anthropologist. Anthropologist, National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, 1911-1948, consultant, 1948-1969; professor, Loyola University, 1945-1955, emeritus professor, 1955-1969; lecturer, Montreal University; co-editor, Journal of American Folklore, 1916-1969 | |
| | | Title: | Carrier Notes (Hagwilgate)
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | Hagwilgate | | | | Dates: | 1921 | | | | Extent: | 7 leaves | | | | Abstract: | Linguistic material | | | | Source: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages (497.3 B63c, Na4) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Linguistics and philology | |
| | Author: | Barbeau, Charles Marius, 1883-1969 | | | | | Anthropologist. Anthropologist, National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, 1911-1948, consultant, 1948-1969; professor, Loyola University, 1945-1955, emeritus professor, 1955-1969; lecturer, Montreal University; co-editor, Journal of American Folklore, 1916-1969 | |
| | | Title: | Catalogue of Indian songs
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1911-1920 | | | | Extent: | 170 leaves | | | | Abstract: | Catalogue of Indian songs collected by the National Museum of Canada. Iroquois, Huron, Cayuga, Ojibwa, etc. Typed. | | | | Source: | Catalogue of Indian Songs (497.2 C16) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Folklore, mythology, religion | |
| | Author: | Barbeau, Charles Marius, 1883-1969 | | | | | Anthropologist. Anthropologist, National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, 1911-1948, consultant, 1948-1969; professor, Loyola University, 1945-1955, emeritus professor, 1955-1969; lecturer, Montreal University; co-editor, Journal of American Folklore, 1916-1969 | |
| | | Title: | Cayuga Dialect of Iroquois
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | Iroquois | | | | Dates: | 1964 | | | | Extent: | 82 leaves | | | | Abstract: | Linguistic material | | | | Source: | Cayuga Dialect of Iroquois (497.2 B235c) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Linguistics and philology | |
| | Author: | Barbeau, Charles Marius, 1883-1969 | | | | | Anthropologist. Anthropologist, National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, 1911-1948, consultant, 1948-1969; professor, Loyola University, 1945-1955, emeritus professor, 1955-1969; lecturer, Montreal University; co-editor, Journal of American Folklore, 1916-1969 | |
| | | Title: | Checklist of American Indian antiquities found in European institutions
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Photostat | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1950 | | | | Extent: | 197 leaves | | | | Abstract: |
none
| | | | Source: | Checklist of American Indian antiquities found in European institutions (016.9701 B235c) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | |
| | Author: | Barbeau, Charles Marius, 1883-1969 | | | | | Anthropologist. Anthropologist, National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, 1911-1948, consultant, 1948-1969; professor, Loyola University, 1945-1955, emeritus professor, 1955-1969; lecturer, Montreal University; co-editor, Journal of American Folklore, 1916-1969 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Charles Barbeau and Elisabeth Tooker
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1964-1967 | | | | Extent: | 1 folder | | | | Abstract: |
none
| | | | Source: | Elisabeth Tooker Papers (Ms. Coll. 84) | | | | |
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| | Author: | Barbeau, Charles Marius, 1883-1969 | | | | | Anthropologist. Anthropologist, National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, 1911-1948, consultant, 1948-1969; professor, Loyola University, 1945-1955, emeritus professor, 1955-1969; lecturer, Montreal University; co-editor, Journal of American Folklore, 1916-1969 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Charles Barbeau and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 12 February 1914 - 5 August 1940 | | | | Extent: | 108 letters | | | | Abstract: | 108 letters. (70 to Boas, 38 to Barbeau) + 8 letters to/from W. H. Clawson, L. Gouin, H. Andrews, B. C. Edel, A. Boulet, J. Tache, J. C. Brooks. French-Can. folklore; American Folklore Society; Journal of American Folklore; fieldwork; publications. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| | Author: | Barbeau, Charles Marius, 1883-1969 | | | | | Anthropologist. Anthropologist, National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, 1911-1948, consultant, 1948-1969; professor, Loyola University, 1945-1955, emeritus professor, 1955-1969; lecturer, Montreal University; co-editor, Journal of American Folklore, 1916-1969 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Charles Barbeau and J. Alden Mason
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 27 January 1941 - 15 July 1954 | | | | Extent: | 18 letters | | | | Abstract: | 16 letters (8 to Mason, 8 to Barbeau) + 2 letters to Frank Speck, Paul Fejos. American Anthropology; museum collections; Northwest coast material culture. | | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| | Author: | Barbeau, Charles Marius, 1883-1969 | | | | | Anthropologist. Anthropologist, National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, 1911-1948, consultant, 1948-1969; professor, Loyola University, 1945-1955, emeritus professor, 1955-1969; lecturer, Montreal University; co-editor, Journal of American Folklore, 1916-1969 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Charles Barbeau and Paul A. W. Wallace
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1920-1958 | | | | Extent: | 1 folder | | | | Abstract: | Folklore; American Folklore Society; Journal of American Folklore; fieldwork; publications; preparing article for Journal - Mr. Ahenakew, Mr. Etter; compliments on "Mountain Cloud"; reprint of "Get Up and Bar the Door"; research; APS; Huron-Wyandot linguistics; grants for Huron-Wyandot research; archives; employment; personal | | | | Source: | Wallace Family Papers, Subcollection II, Paul A. W. Wallace Papers (Ms. Coll. 64) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Barbeau, Charles Marius, 1883-1969 | | | | | Anthropologist. Anthropologist, National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, 1911-1948, consultant, 1948-1969; professor, Loyola University, 1945-1955, emeritus professor, 1955-1969; lecturer, Montreal University; co-editor, Journal of American Folklore, 1916-1969 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Charles Barbeau and William Fenton
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1939-1967 | | | | Extent: | 1 folder | | | | Abstract: | Seneca suicides/poisonous plants; language work; Christmas carol of Pere Brebeut; statement in connection with application for a grant-in-aid for Huron-Wyandot research; financial grants; Iroquois-Wyandot linguistic work; fieldwork discussion; Six Nations; museums; "International Fold Music Council Programme of Fourteenth Annual Conference", 3 September 1961; article "Marius Barbeau Dies in Canada; Leading Collector of Folk Songs"; personal. See also: Bridges, Marjorie Lismer and Series III: "Iroquois Suicides" and "Iroquois Suicide: A Study in the Stability of a Culture Pattern" | | | | Source: | William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Archaeology, prehistory | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Barbeau, Charles Marius, 1883-1969 | | | | | Anthropologist. Anthropologist, National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, 1911-1948, consultant, 1948-1969; professor, Loyola University, 1945-1955, emeritus professor, 1955-1969; lecturer, Montreal University; co-editor, Journal of American Folklore, 1916-1969 | |
| | | Title: | Frank Deering Collection of Indian Captivities
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1950-1953 | | | | Extent: | 3 volumes (51 leaves, 27 leaves, 364 leaves) | | | | Abstract: | Indian captivities material. | | | | Source: | Frank Deering Collection of Indian Captivities (016.9701 D365bb) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | |
| | Author: | Barbeau, Charles Marius, 1883-1969 | | | | | Anthropologist. Anthropologist, National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, 1911-1948, consultant, 1948-1969; professor, Loyola University, 1945-1955, emeritus professor, 1955-1969; lecturer, Montreal University; co-editor, Journal of American Folklore, 1916-1969 | |
| | | Title: | The Gwenhout of Alaska
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1960 | | | | Extent: | 664 leaves | | | | Abstract: |
none
| | | | Source: | American Philosophical Society. Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (497.3 Am4) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | |
| | Author: | Barbeau, Charles Marius, 1883-1969 | | | | | Anthropologist. Anthropologist, National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, 1911-1948, consultant, 1948-1969; professor, Loyola University, 1945-1955, emeritus professor, 1955-1969; lecturer, Montreal University; co-editor, Journal of American Folklore, 1916-1969 | |
| | | Title: | Haida Carvers in Argillite
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | n.d. | | | | Extent: | 530 leaves | | | | Abstract: |
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| | | | Source: | Haida Carvers in Argillite (970.6 B23h) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | |
| | Author: | Barbeau, Charles Marius, 1883-1969 | | | | | Anthropologist. Anthropologist, National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, 1911-1948, consultant, 1948-1969; professor, Loyola University, 1945-1955, emeritus professor, 1955-1969; lecturer, Montreal University; co-editor, Journal of American Folklore, 1916-1969 | |
| | | Title: | Huron Word List
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | Huron | | | | Dates: | Circa 1952 | | | | Extent: | 108 leaves | | | | Abstract: | Linguistic material | | | | Source: | Huron Word List (497.2 B235w) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Linguistics and philology | |
| | Author: | Barbeau, Charles Marius, 1883-1969 | | | | | Anthropologist. Anthropologist, National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, 1911-1948, consultant, 1948-1969; professor, Loyola University, 1945-1955, emeritus professor, 1955-1969; lecturer, Montreal University; co-editor, Journal of American Folklore, 1916-1969 | |
| | | Title: | Huron-Wyandot Traditional Narratives
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | Huron-Wyandot | | | | Dates: | n.d. | | | | Extent: | 416 leaves | | | | Abstract: | Linguistic material | | | | Source: | Huron-Wyandot Traditional Narratives (497.2 B235w.2) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | |
| | Author: | Barbeau, Charles Marius, 1883-1969 | | | | | Anthropologist. Anthropologist, National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, 1911-1948, consultant, 1948-1969; professor, Loyola University, 1945-1955, emeritus professor, 1955-1969; lecturer, Montreal University; co-editor, Journal of American Folklore, 1916-1969 | |
| | | Title: | Letters to Alfred Hallowell
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1945, 1947 | | | | Extent: | 2 letters | | | | Abstract: | Bear ceremonialism; publications | | | | Source: | Alfred Irving Hallowell Papers (Ms. Coll. 26) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Folklore, mythology, religion | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| | Author: | Barbeau, Charles Marius, 1883-1969 | | | | | Anthropologist. Anthropologist, National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, 1911-1948, consultant, 1948-1969; professor, Loyola University, 1945-1955, emeritus professor, 1955-1969; lecturer, Montreal University; co-editor, Journal of American Folklore, 1916-1969 | |
| | | Title: | Letters to Frank G. Speck
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1926, 1945 | | | | Extent: | 2 letters | | | | Abstract: | Thank you for sending a piece of silver from grave, believes it could have been made in Quebec City between 1800-1830 | | | | Source: | Frank Gouldsmith Speck Papers (Ms. Coll. 126) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | |
| | Author: | Barbeau, Charles Marius, 1883-1969 | | | | | Anthropologist. Anthropologist, National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, 1911-1948, consultant, 1948-1969; professor, Loyola University, 1945-1955, emeritus professor, 1955-1969; lecturer, Montreal University; co-editor, Journal of American Folklore, 1916-1969 | |
| | | Title: | Mohawk and Cayuga Grammatical Material at Six Nations Reserve
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | Mohawk | Cayuga | | | | Dates: | 1949, 1958 | | | | Extent: | 2 volumes (146 leaves, 49 leaves) | | | | Abstract: | Linguistic material. Includes analysis, from Mohawk materials, of the Indian vocabularies appended to the account of Jacques Cartier's first and second voyages. | | | | Source: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages (497.3 B63c, I1a.1) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Linguistics and philology | |
| | Author: | Barbeau, Charles Marius, 1883-1969 | | | | | Anthropologist. Anthropologist, National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, 1911-1948, consultant, 1948-1969; professor, Loyola University, 1945-1955, emeritus professor, 1955-1969; lecturer, Montreal University; co-editor, Journal of American Folklore, 1916-1969 | |
| | | Title: | Notes on Onondaga and Tuscarora
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1951 | | | | Extent: | 128 leaves | | | | Abstract: | Linguistic material | | | | Source: | Notes on Onondaga and Tuscarora (497.2 B235) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Linguistics and philology | |
| | Author: | Barbeau, Charles Marius, 1883-1969 | | | | | Anthropologist. Anthropologist, National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, 1911-1948, consultant, 1948-1969; professor, Loyola University, 1945-1955, emeritus professor, 1955-1969; lecturer, Montreal University; co-editor, Journal of American Folklore, 1916-1969 | |
| | | Title: | Nova Scotia - Notebook #1
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1923 | | | | Extent: | 1 notebook | | | | Abstract: |
none
| | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (Ms. Coll. 29), Series IV | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| | Author: | Barbeau, Charles Marius, 1883-1969 | | | | | Anthropologist. Anthropologist, National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, 1911-1948, consultant, 1948-1969; professor, Loyola University, 1945-1955, emeritus professor, 1955-1969; lecturer, Montreal University; co-editor, Journal of American Folklore, 1916-1969 | |
| | | Title: | Oneida Dialect
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | Oneida | | | | Dates: | 1950 | | | | Extent: | 60 leaves | | | | Abstract: | Linguistic material. Recorded from John Alexander Ninham | | | | Source: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages (497.3 B63c, I1b.2) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Linguistics and philology | |
| | Author: | Barbeau, Charles Marius, 1883-1969 | | | | | Anthropologist. Anthropologist, National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, 1911-1948, consultant, 1948-1969; professor, Loyola University, 1945-1955, emeritus professor, 1955-1969; lecturer, Montreal University; co-editor, Journal of American Folklore, 1916-1969 | |
| | | Title: | Oneida Text
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | Oneida | | | | Dates: | 1950 | | | | Extent: | 2 leaves | | | | Abstract: | Linguistic material | | | | Source: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages (497.3 B63c, I1b.1) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Linguistics and philology | |
| | Author: | Barbeau, Charles Marius, 1883-1969 | | | | | Anthropologist. Anthropologist, National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, 1911-1948, consultant, 1948-1969; professor, Loyola University, 1945-1955, emeritus professor, 1955-1969; lecturer, Montreal University; co-editor, Journal of American Folklore, 1916-1969 | |
| | | Title: | Raven-Clan Outlaws of the North Pacific Coast
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1963 | | | | Extent: | 447 leaves | | | | Abstract: |
none
| | | | Source: | Raven-Clan Outlaws of the North Pacific Coast (970.6 B23r) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | |
| | Author: | Barbeau, Charles Marius, 1883-1969 | | | | | Anthropologist. Anthropologist, National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, 1911-1948, consultant, 1948-1969; professor, Loyola University, 1945-1955, emeritus professor, 1955-1969; lecturer, Montreal University; co-editor, Journal of American Folklore, 1916-1969 | |
| | | Title: | Social Organization of the Gitzaxtet Tribe
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1915 | | | | Extent: | 28 leaves | | | | Abstract: |
none
| | | | Source: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages (497.3 B63c, 34) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | |
| | Author: | Barbeau, Charles Marius, 1883-1969 | | | | | Anthropologist. Anthropologist, National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, 1911-1948, consultant, 1948-1969; professor, Loyola University, 1945-1955, emeritus professor, 1955-1969; lecturer, Montreal University; co-editor, Journal of American Folklore, 1916-1969 | |
| | | Title: | TemLarh'am, the Land of Plenty on the North Pacific Coast
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1959 | | | | Extent: | 808 leaves | | | | Abstract: |
none
| | | | Source: | American Philosophical Society. Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (497.3 Am4) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | |
| | Author: | Barbeau, Charles Marius, 1883-1969 | | | | | Anthropologist. Anthropologist, National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, 1911-1948, consultant, 1948-1969; professor, Loyola University, 1945-1955, emeritus professor, 1955-1969; lecturer, Montreal University; co-editor, Journal of American Folklore, 1916-1969 | |
| | | Title: | Wolf-Clan Invaders from the Northern Plateau among the Tsimsyans
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1962 | | | | Extent: | 420 leaves | | | | Abstract: |
none
| | | | Source: | American Philosophical Society. Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (497.3 Am4) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | |
| | Author: | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | | | | | Physician, naturalist. Medical practice, Philadelphia, 1789-1815; professor of natural history and botany, College of Philadelphia, 1790-95, of materia medica, 1895-1813; chair of theory and practice of medicine, 1813-15; physician to Pennsylvania Hospital, 1798-1815; founder and editor, Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal, 1805-08. Barton's interests and research included studies in botany, materia medica, and American ethnography. | |
| | | Title: | Benjamin Smith Barton Papers
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1789-1794 | | | | Extent: | 17 letters; 3 printed documents | | | | Abstract: | Includes letters to Thomas Pennant concerning color and morphology of American Indians. Also "Proposals for Printing... An Historical... Inquiry into... Remains of Antiquity," 1789. | | | | Source: | Benjamin Smith Barton Papers. Letters to Thomas Pennant (B B284) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| | Author: | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | | | | | Physician, naturalist. Medical practice, Philadelphia, 1789-1815; professor of natural history and botany, College of Philadelphia, 1790-95, of materia medica, 1895-1813; chair of theory and practice of medicine, 1813-15; physician to Pennsylvania Hospital, 1798-1815; founder and editor, Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal, 1805-08. Barton's interests and research included studies in botany, materia medica, and American ethnography. | |
| | | Title: | Benjamin Smith Barton Papers, Violetta W. Delafield Collection
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | Circa 1788-1815 | | | | Extent: | Approximately 5,000 leaves (10 linear feet) | | | | Abstract: | Includes notes, vocabulary lists, paper manuscripts, correspondence dealing with American Indian antiquities, ethnography, and physical anthropology. Correspondents include William Bartram, Albert Gallatin, John Heckewelder, Thomas Jefferson, Constantine Rafinesque, John Vaughan. | | | | Source: | Benjamin Smith Barton Papers, Violetta W. Delafield Collection (B B284.d) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Linguistics and philology | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| | Author: | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | | | | | Physician, naturalist. Medical practice, Philadelphia, 1789-1815; professor of natural history and botany, College of Philadelphia, 1790-95, of materia medica, 1895-1813; chair of theory and practice of medicine, 1813-15; physician to Pennsylvania Hospital, 1798-1815; founder and editor, Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal, 1805-08. Barton's interests and research included studies in botany, materia medica, and American ethnography. | |
| | | Title: | A Comparative Vocabulary of Indian Languages, 1798-1821
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | Native American languages | | | | Dates: | 1798-1821 | | | | Extent: | 221 leaves | | | | Abstract: | This volume contains extracts of Barton's "New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America" (Philadelphia, 1797), with additions by Peter S. Du Ponceau, including a review of Barton's book in "Gottingische Anzeigen von gelehrten Sachen," June 17, 1799. | | | | Source: | A Comparative Vocabulary of Indian Languages (497 B28) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Linguistics and philology | |
| | Author: | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | | | | | Physician, naturalist. Medical practice, Philadelphia, 1789-1815; professor of natural history and botany, College of Philadelphia, 1790-95, of materia medica, 1895-1813; chair of theory and practice of medicine, 1813-15; physician to Pennsylvania Hospital, 1798-1815; founder and editor, Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal, 1805-08. Barton's interests and research included studies in botany, materia medica, and American ethnography. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between John Heckewelder and Benjamin Smith Barton
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 4 August 1795 - 29 March 1815 | | | | Extent: | 15 letters | | | | Abstract: | 15 letters (14 to Barton, 1 to Heckewelder). Indian languages | | | | Source: | Benjamin Smith Barton. Violetta W. Delafield Collection (B B284.d) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Linguistics and philology | |
| | Author: | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | | | | | Physician, naturalist. Medical practice, Philadelphia, 1789-1815; professor of natural history and botany, College of Philadelphia, 1790-95, of materia medica, 1895-1813; chair of theory and practice of medicine, 1813-15; physician to Pennsylvania Hospital, 1798-1815; founder and editor, Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal, 1805-08. Barton's interests and research included studies in botany, materia medica, and American ethnography. | |
| | | Title: | An Essay Towards a Natural History of North American Indians
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Photocopy | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | Circa 1788-1789 | | | | Extent: | 16 leaves | | | | Abstract: |
none
| | | | Source: | Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Misc. Mss.) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| | Author: | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | | | | | Physician, naturalist. Medical practice, Philadelphia, 1789-1815; professor of natural history and botany, College of Philadelphia, 1790-95, of materia medica, 1895-1813; chair of theory and practice of medicine, 1813-15; physician to Pennsylvania Hospital, 1798-1815; founder and editor, Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal, 1805-08. Barton's interests and research included studies in botany, materia medica, and American ethnography. | |
| | | Title: | Letter to Albert Gallatin
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 14 March 1810 | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | American Indian ethnography | | | | Source: | Benjamin Smith Barton Papers, Violetta W. Delafield Collection (B B284.d) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | |
| | Author: | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | | | | | Physician, naturalist. Medical practice, Philadelphia, 1789-1815; professor of natural history and botany, College of Philadelphia, 1790-95, of materia medica, 1895-1813; chair of theory and practice of medicine, 1813-15; physician to Pennsylvania Hospital, 1798-1815; founder and editor, Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal, 1805-08. Barton's interests and research included studies in botany, materia medica, and American ethnography. | |
| | | Title: | Letter to John Heckewelder
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 22 February 1796 | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | American Indian antiquities and skin color | | | | Source: | Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Misc. Mss.) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| | Author: | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | | | | | Physician, naturalist. Medical practice, Philadelphia, 1789-1815; professor of natural history and botany, College of Philadelphia, 1790-95, of materia medica, 1895-1813; chair of theory and practice of medicine, 1813-15; physician to Pennsylvania Hospital, 1798-1815; founder and editor, Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal, 1805-08. Barton's interests and research included studies in botany, materia medica, and American ethnography. | |
| | | Title: | Letter to John Heckewelder
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 20 November 1797 | | | | Extent: | 1 letter; photocopy | | | | Abstract: | Nanticoke Indians | | | | Source: | Letters of Scientists, from the College of Physicians of Philadelphia (509 L56.26) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | |
| | Author: | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | | | | | Physician, naturalist. Medical practice, Philadelphia, 1789-1815; professor of natural history and botany, College of Philadelphia, 1790-95, of materia medica, 1895-1813; chair of theory and practice of medicine, 1813-15; physician to Pennsylvania Hospital, 1798-1815; founder and editor, Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal, 1805-08. Barton's interests and research included studies in botany, materia medica, and American ethnography. | |
| | | Title: | Queries Concerning the Northern Indians
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 31 March 1797 | | | | Extent: | 2 leaves | | | | Abstract: |
none
| | | | Source: | American Philosophical Society Historical and Literary Committee, American Indian Vocabulary Collection (497 V85) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| | Author: | Bastian, Adolph, 1826-1905 | | | | | Ethnologist. Founder, Berlin Ethnological Museum, 1868, Berlin Anthropological Society, 1869; docent, ethnology, University of Berlin, 1868, later professor and keeper of Ethnology Museum; director, German African Society, 1873-?. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Adolph Bastian and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 10 October 1884 - 24 April 1894 | | | | Extent: | 21 letters | | | | Abstract: | 21 letters (19 to Boas, 2 to Bastian). Berlin Ethnology Museum; ethnology as a scientific study; professional congresses | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | |
| | Author: | Bateson, Gregory, 1904-1980 | | | | | Ethnologist, researcher in human behavior. Lecturer, Langley Porter Clinic, 1948-1950; ethnologist, Veterans Administration Hospital, Palo Alto, California, 1950-1962; research director in ethnology, Communication Research Institute, 1962-1964; associate director of research, Oceanic Institute, 1964-1969. | |
| | | Title: | Bateson Family Papers
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1910-1922 | | | | Extent: | 2 linear feet | | | | Abstract: | Letters to and from Bateson family members and friends, including William Bateson, Beatrice Durham Bateson, Martin Bateson. Gregory Bateson's early schooling, family life, travels. | | | | Source: | Bateson Family Papers (Ms. Coll. 2) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Bateson, Gregory, 1904-1980 | | | | | Ethnologist, researcher in human behavior. Lecturer, Langley Porter Clinic, 1948-1950; ethnologist, Veterans Administration Hospital, Palo Alto, California, 1950-1962; research director in ethnology, Communication Research Institute, 1962-1964; associate director of research, Oceanic Institute, 1964-1969. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence from the Warren Sturgis McCulloch Papers
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 24 September 1954 - 25 October 1962 | | | | Extent: | 6 letters | | | | Abstract: | 4 letters to McCulloch + 2 letters from Jerome Wiesner and Franklin Long | | | | Source: | Warren Sturgis McCulloch Papers (B M139) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Financial support for research and publication | |
| | Author: | Bateson, Gregory, 1904-1980 | | | | | Ethnologist, researcher in human behavior. Lecturer, Langley Porter Clinic, 1948-1950; ethnologist, Veterans Administration Hospital, Palo Alto, California, 1950-1962; research director in ethnology, Communication Research Institute, 1962-1964; associate director of research, Oceanic Institute, 1964-1969. | |
| | | Title: | Letter to Ashley Montagu
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 23 April 1946 | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | Government | | | | Source: | Ashley Montagu Papers (Ms. Coll. 109) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | |
| | Author: | Bateson, Gregory, 1904-1980 | | | | | Ethnologist, researcher in human behavior. Lecturer, Langley Porter Clinic, 1948-1950; ethnologist, Veterans Administration Hospital, Palo Alto, California, 1950-1962; research director in ethnology, Communication Research Institute, 1962-1964; associate director of research, Oceanic Institute, 1964-1969. | |
| | | Title: | Letter to Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 23 March 1956 | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | Bateson's marriage to Margaret Mead | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Bean, Robert Bennett, 1874-1944 | | | | | Anatomist. Director, Anatomy lab, Phillips Medical School, Manila, 1907-1910; associate professor, anatomy, Tulane University, 1910-1916; professor, anatomy, University of Virginia, 1916-1944. Research on racial differentiation and inheritance. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence from the Charles Benedict Davenport Papers
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 24 September 1909 - 14 August 1930 | | | | Extent: | 23 letters | | | | Abstract: | 23 letters. (10 to Davenport, 13 to Boas). Mendelian genetics and racial character; anthropometrics. | | | | Source: | Charles Benedict Davenport Papers (B D27) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| | Author: | Bell, Robert, 1841-1917 | | | | | Canadian geologist, explorer, folklorist. Assistant director, Geological Survey of Canada, 1877-1890, chief geologist, 1890-1891, director, 1901-1906. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Robert Bell and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1 March 1886 - 25 June 1908 | | | | Extent: | 51 letters | | | | Abstract: | 51 letters. (45 to Boas, 6 to Bell). Boas berth on expedition to Hudson Bay (1886); Indian folklore and craniology; museum collections; fieldwork in Baffinland and British Columbia; development of School of American Archaeology in Mexico. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Belmar, Francisco, 1859-1926 | | | | | Mexican linguist | |
| | | Title: | Writings on Mexican languages
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | Spanish | Mexican languages | English | | | | Dates: | 1895-1902 | | | | Extent: | 1 volume (approximately 230 leaves) | | | | Abstract: | Consists of a short, elementary text for teaching Mixe to Spanish speakers, entitled "Curso de lengua Mixe;" an exposition of Mexican languages, "Las lenguas habladas por los indigenos de la Republica Mexicana," with special reference to their relations with California languages, prepared for, but not delivered at, International Congress of Americanists, 11th session (1895); and an address on the Indian tribes of the state of Oaxaca and their languages (in English), printed in part in the Proceedings of International Congress of Americanists, 13th session (1902), p.193 | | | | Source: | Writings on Mexican languages (497.4 B412c) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Linguistics and philology | |
| | Author: | Benedict, Ruth Fulton, 1887-1948 | | | | | Anthropologist. Lecturer, anthropology, Columbia University, 1923-1930; assistant professor, 1930-1936; associate professor, 1936-1948; professor, 1948. Helped organize project for Research in Contemporary Cultures at Columbia University, 1946. Studied folklore, ethnology, the psychological basis of cultural patterns. | |
| | | Title: | An Anthropologist At Work: The Writings of Ruth Benedict
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1923-1934, 1957-1958 | | | | Extent: | 175 leaves | | | | Abstract: | Prepared 1957-1958. Photocopy of first working copy, correspondence only. Includes correspondence between Benedict and Mead | | | | Source: | An anthropologist at work: writings of Ruth Benedict (B B428.mx) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Benedict, Ruth Fulton, 1887-1948 | | | | | Anthropologist. Lecturer, anthropology, Columbia University, 1923-1930; assistant professor, 1930-1936; associate professor, 1936-1948; professor, 1948. Helped organize project for Research in Contemporary Cultures at Columbia University, 1946. Studied folklore, ethnology, the psychological basis of cultural patterns. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Ruth Benedict and Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1923-1937 | | | | Extent: | Approximately 17 letters | | | | Abstract: | Publications; fieldwork and funding; fieldwork plans in Mexico; religion; reviews. Manuscript: "Spanish Elements in the Kachina Cult of the Pueblos" | | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (Ms. Coll. 29) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| | Author: | Benedict, Ruth Fulton, 1887-1948 | | | | | Anthropologist. Lecturer, anthropology, Columbia University, 1923-1930; assistant professor, 1930-1936; associate professor, 1936-1948; professor, 1948. Helped organize project for Research in Contemporary Cultures at Columbia University, 1946. Studied folklore, ethnology, the psychological basis of cultural patterns. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Ruth Benedict and J. Alden Mason
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 6 December 1927 - 18 July 1947 | | | | Extent: | 46 letters | | | | Abstract: | 46 letters (34 to Mason, 22 to Benedict). Folklore; publications; personal. | | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Folklore, mythology, religion | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Benedict, Ruth Fulton, 1887-1948 | | | | | Anthropologist. Lecturer, anthropology, Columbia University, 1923-1930; assistant professor, 1930-1936; associate professor, 1936-1948; professor, 1948. Helped organize project for Research in Contemporary Cultures at Columbia University, 1946. Studied folklore, ethnology, the psychological basis of cultural patterns. | |
| | | Title: | Foreward to An Ethnological Study of the Ixil Indians of the Guatemala Highlands, by Jackson Steward Lincoln
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Microfilm | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1946 | | | | Extent: | Approximately 48 leaves | | | | Abstract: |
none
| | | | Source: | Manuscripts on Middle American Cultural Anthropology (Film 297) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | |
| | Author: | Benedict, Ruth Fulton, 1887-1948 | | | | | Anthropologist. Lecturer, anthropology, Columbia University, 1923-1930; assistant professor, 1930-1936; associate professor, 1936-1948; professor, 1948. Helped organize project for Research in Contemporary Cultures at Columbia University, 1946. Studied folklore, ethnology, the psychological basis of cultural patterns. | |
| | | Title: | Letter to Alfred Hallowell
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1938 | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | Lack of funds for American Indian fieldwork | | | | Source: | Alfred Irving Hallowell Papers (Ms. Coll. 26) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Financial support for research and publication | |
| | Author: | Benedict, Ruth Fulton, 1887-1948 | | | | | Anthropologist. Lecturer, anthropology, Columbia University, 1923-1930; assistant professor, 1930-1936; associate professor, 1936-1948; professor, 1948. Helped organize project for Research in Contemporary Cultures at Columbia University, 1946. Studied folklore, ethnology, the psychological basis of cultural patterns. | |
| | | Title: | Letters to Ashley Montagu
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1936-1943 | | | | Extent: | 3 letters | | | | Abstract: | Publications; critique on Ph.D thesis about Australian Aborigines; personal | | | | Source: | Ashley Montagu Papers (Ms. Coll. 109) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| | Author: | Benedict, Ruth Fulton, 1887-1948 | | | | | Anthropologist. Lecturer, anthropology, Columbia University, 1923-1930; assistant professor, 1930-1936; associate professor, 1936-1948; professor, 1948. Helped organize project for Research in Contemporary Cultures at Columbia University, 1946. Studied folklore, ethnology, the psychological basis of cultural patterns. | |
| | | Title: | Letters to E. Adamson Hoebel
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1938, 1947 | | | | Extent: | 5 letters | | | | Abstract: | Law in the Comanche Shoshone and Cheyenne tribes; congratulations to Hoebel on news bulletin in the "Anthropologists"; personal | | | | Source: | E. Adamson Hoebel Papers (Ms. Coll. 43) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Benedict, Ruth Fulton, 1887-1948 | | | | | Anthropologist. Lecturer, anthropology, Columbia University, 1923-1930; assistant professor, 1930-1936; associate professor, 1936-1948; professor, 1948. Helped organize project for Research in Contemporary Cultures at Columbia University, 1946. Studied folklore, ethnology, the psychological basis of cultural patterns. | |
| | | Title: | Letters to Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 28 November 1936 - 26 September 1939 | | | | Extent: | 9 letters | | | | Abstract: | Folklore; social organization; ethnology; "Zuni mythology"; social dynamics vs. historical analysis; employment. | | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (572 P25.1) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | |
| | Author: | Berman, Howard | | | | | Linguist | |
| | | Title: | Miwok myths
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | n.d. | | | | Extent: | 150 leaves | | | | Abstract: | This includes manuscript and photocopies material of Lucy S. Freeland, in which she records the stories told to her by Thomas Williams and Lena Cox. Also included are offprints from The Hudson Review of translations of these myths by Jamie de Angulo. There are also documents prepared by Berman in preparation for the publication of these myths, which he edited, in Freeland's Central Sierra Miwok Myths, 1982 | | | | Source: | Miwok myths (497.9 B45m) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Folklore, mythology, religion | |
| | Author: | Beynon, William, 1888-1958 | | | | | Chief, field assistant and translator. Tsimshian chief; field assistant/translator to C. Barbeau; informant for Franz Boas and many other anthropologists and linguists | |
| | | Title: | The Beynon Manuscripts
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Microfilm | | | | Language: | English | Tshimshian | | | | Dates: | n.d. | | | | Extent: | 4 reels | | | | Abstract: | A collection of 252 Tsimshian texts, with interlinear translations collected by the Tsimshian ethnographer, William Beynon. The originals are housed at Columbia University | | | | Source: | The Beynon Manuscripts (Film 1416) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | |
| | Author: | Beynon, William, 1888-1958 | | | | | Chief, field assistant and translator. Tsimshian chief; field assistant/translator to C. Barbeau; informant for Franz Boas and many other anthropologists and linguists | |
| | | Title: | William Beynon Papers
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1933-1937 | | | | Extent: | 0.5 linear feet | | | | Abstract: | The Beynon Papers includes a series of correspondence between Beynon and Franz Boas, 1933-1937, along with a small number of narratives in Tsimshian with interlinear English translations. The letters complement, but do not overlap with those in the Boas Papers | | | | Source: | William Beynon Papers (B B467) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Bidney, David, 1908-1987 | | | | | Anthropologist | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between David Bidney and Alfred Hallowell
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1946-1953 | | | | Extent: | 11 letters | | | | Abstract: | Philosophy and anthropology; comments and reviews on publications - Cassier's "An Essay on Man" and "Myth of the State," Northrop's "The Meeting of East and West," Lyman Bryson's "Science and Freedom"; academics/new course; Guggenheim Fellowship to research problem of myth; evolution; comments on various papers - "The Self and its Behavioral Environment," etc. See also: American Anthropological Association. Symposium on Human Nature, 1952, 1951-1953 | | | | Source: | Alfred Irving Hallowell Papers (Ms. Coll. 26) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Folklore, mythology, religion | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| | Author: | Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich, 1752-1840 | | | | | Physician, naturalist, comparative physical anthropologist. Curator, natural history collection, Goettingen University, 1776, professor, medicine, 1778; professor primarius, medicine, 1816. | |
| | | Title: | Letters of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 2 December 1799 - 12 December 1802 | | | | Extent: | 2 letters; photocopies | | | | Abstract: | 2 letters from Blumenbach to unknown individual and Charles Henry Parry. Physical anthropology. | | | | Source: | Wellcome Historical Medical Society Letters (509 W44) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| | Author: | Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich, 1752-1840 | | | | | Physician, naturalist, comparative physical anthropologist. Curator, natural history collection, Goettingen University, 1776, professor, medicine, 1778; professor primarius, medicine, 1816. | |
| | | Title: | Letters of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Microfilm | | | | Language: | English | German | | | | Dates: | March 1817 - November 1829 | | | | Extent: | 9 letters | | | | Abstract: | 9 letters from Blumenbach. Correspondents include C. L. Harding, C. F. Michelis, B. S. Barton, John Sullivan, James Cook Richmond, William Richmond, George Tichnor. American Indian languages; race; physical anthropology. | | | | Source: | Universitat Gottingen. Niedersachische Staats und Universitatsbibliothek. Miscellaneous letters (History of Science Film 8) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Linguistics and philology | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Boas Family Papers
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1862-1942 | | | | Extent: | 17 boxes (9 linear feet) | | | | Abstract: | Letters between Boas family members, including Maria, Meyer, Sophie, Toni, Hedwig, Ernst, and Anne Boas. Letters from Franz Boas have been extracted (see Franz Boas Miscellaneous Papers, B B61p). Correspondence covers family matters and Franz' personal life and development. | | | | Source: | Boas Family Papers (B B61f) | | | | |
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| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Boas-Rukeyser Collection
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1869-1940 | | | | Extent: | 5 boxes (3 linear feet) | | | | Abstract: | Boas biographical materials. Material collected by Muriel Rukeyser in the 1940s and 1950s, for her proposed biography of Franz Boas. Included are letters to and from Boas, biographical material, various school records, and reminiscences of him by family members. The correspondence includes both family and professional correspondence. There are notes by Rukeyser, correspondence with publishers, news clippings related to Boas, and publications dealing with him. | | | | Source: | Boas-Rukeyser Collection (B B61ru) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Adolf Bandelier and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 20 June 1905 - 7 January 1910 | | | | Extent: | 11 letters | | | | Abstract: | 11 letters (8 to Boas, 3 to Bandelier). Employment at Columbia; personal. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Adolph Bastian and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 10 October 1884 - 24 April 1894 | | | | Extent: | 21 letters | | | | Abstract: | 21 letters (19 to Boas, 2 to Bastian). Berlin Ethnology Museum; ethnology as a scientific study; professional congresses | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Ales Hrdlicka and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 18 May 1898 - 3 October 1940 | | | | Extent: | 228 letters | | | | Abstract: | 218 letters (112 to Boas, 106 to Hrdlicka) + 10 letters to/from C.B. Davenport, W.W. Graves, F.W. Hodge, E.A. Hooton, W.A. Neilson, R. Pearl, E.R. Seligman, G.M. Stratton, S. Wurzinger. International Congress of Americanists; American Journal of Physical Anthropology; American Association of Physical Anthropologists; anthropometry; university positions; National Research Council; Galton Society; publications. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Alexander Goldenweiser and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 27 June 1905 - 2 August 1937 | | | | Extent: | 51 letters | | | | Abstract: | 49 letters (24 to Boas, 25 to Goldenweiser) + 2 letters to/from F. W. Hodge. Iroquois culture and social structure; primitive law; totemism; race and culture; folklore; general ethnology; anthropometrics; Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences; employment; teaching; personal | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Alfred Haddon and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 7 December 1901 - 7 November 1935 | | | | Extent: | 33 letters | | | | Abstract: | 32 letters (18 to Boas, 14 to Haddon) + 1 letter to Gerda Lebbelon from Haddon. Material culture; American Museum of Natural History; 1912 Congress of Americanists; bodily changes in American immigrants; international relations of science; race and heredity; research support; publications. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Alfred Hallowell and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 15 January 1923 - 9 November 1928 | | | | Extent: | 16 letters | | | | Abstract: | 15 letters (7 to Boas, 8 to Hallowell) + 1 letter to Hallowell from E.R. Seligman. American Indian folklore; kinship; ACLS; Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences; research support. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Folklore, mythology, religion | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Alfred Kidder and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 5 December 1921 - 5 May 1941 | | | | Extent: | 100 letters | | | | Abstract: | 97 letters (53 to Boas, 44 to Kidder) + 3 letters to/from National Research Council, E.R. Riesen. NRC; meetings; fieldwork; funding; Central American archaeology; Laboratory of Anthropology at Santa Fe; publications | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Alfred Kroeber and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1 May 1903 - 15 December 1942 | | | | Extent: | 564 letters | | | | Abstract: | 545 letters (259 to Boas, 186 to Kroeber) + 19 letters to/from L. Bloomfield, E. P. Boas, B. C. Edel, James O. Griffin, F. W. Hodge, J. C. Merriam, E. Sapir, H. K. Schilling, D. von den Steinen, M. Swadesh, A.M. Totter, B.I Wheeler. Linguistics; ethnology; American Anthropological Association; Handbook of American Languages; American Folk-Lore Society; International School of American Archaeology and Ethnology; National Research Council; craniometry; graduate studies; professional positions; research and fellowship grants; ACLS; personal. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Archaeology, prehistory | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Alfred Tozzer and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 26 December 1903 - 25 December 1941 | | | | Extent: | 820 letters | | | | Abstract: | 806 letters (429 to Boas, 377 to Tozzer) + 14 letters To/from R. W. Bryan, M. Downes, A. L. Kroeber, W. H. Mechling, F. Parrott, A. Pruneda, B. L. Whorf, Sophie Bass, F. F. Keppel, Fletcher. Maya ethnology; Mexican, Central Amercan, and Peruvian archaeology; American Folk-Lore Society; American Journal of Folklore; American Anthropologist; American Antropological Association; International School of American Archaeology and Ethnology; NRC; fieldwork; museum collections; research funding; publications; personal | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Berthold Laufer and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1898-1933 | | | | Extent: | 259 letters | | | | Abstract: | 228 letters (140 to Boas, 88 to Laufer) + 31 letters to/from C.E. Bedman, James L. Bowes, F.H. Chalfont, Walter Clark, Thomas R. Clarke, W.H. Furness, F.W. Putnam, C. Wissler, H.C. Wright, and others. Jesup North Pacific Expedition; American Museum of Natural History; Field Museum; Chinese languages, ethnography, and material culture; fieldwork; museum collections and operations; teaching; employment; research funding; Northwest Coast American Indian material culture and ethnography; American Anthropologist; American Anthropological Association; International Congress of Americanists; National Research Council; Germanistic Society; publications; personal | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Archaeology, prehistory | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Bronislaw Malinowski and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 13 October 1928 - 17 February 1936 | | | | Extent: | 14 letters | | | | Abstract: | 14 letters (6 to Boas, 7 to Malinowski) + 1 letter to Lloyd Warner from Malinowski. Rockefeller Foundation and research funding; placing of emigrant German scholars; personal | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Charles Barbeau and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 12 February 1914 - 5 August 1940 | | | | Extent: | 108 letters | | | | Abstract: | 108 letters. (70 to Boas, 38 to Barbeau) + 8 letters to/from W. H. Clawson, L. Gouin, H. Andrews, B. C. Edel, A. Boulet, J. Tache, J. C. Brooks. French-Can. folklore; American Folklore Society; Journal of American Folklore; fieldwork; publications. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Charles Davenport and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 26 December 1899 - 24 December 1936 | | | | Extent: | 35 letters | | | | Abstract: | 35 letter (18 to Boas, 17 to Davenport) + 1 letter from Davenport to Hrdlicka. Anthropometry; comparative racial mental capacities; stature; research funding; publications. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Clarence Moore and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 2 October 1903 - 16 October 1908 | | | | Extent: | 7 letters | | | | Abstract: | 7 letters (4 to Boas, 3 to Moore). Fund-raising; publications | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Clark Wissler and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 15 May 1903 - 17 April 1942 | | | | Extent: | 56 letters | | | | Abstract: | 45 letters (5 to Boas, 40 to Wissler) + 11 letters to/from American Anthropological Association; W. Jochelson; B. Laufer; T. Michelson; W.K. Moorehead; C. Rau; E. Sapir; E.R. Seligman. Anthropology at Columbia University; anthropology teaching; American Museum of Natural History; relations between Columbia University and AMNH; museum collections; NRC; Berthold Laufer; fieldwork funding; American Anthropologist; congresses; Jesup North Pacific expedition; publications | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Clyde Kluckhohn and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 24 September 1940 - 7 October 1940 | | | | Extent: | 4 letters | | | | Abstract: | 4 letters (2 to Boas, 2 to Kluckhohn). Dinner for A.M. Totter | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Daniel Brinton and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1 September 1886 - 1 December 1898 | | | | Extent: | 57 letters | | | | Abstract: | 57 letters: 51 to Boas, 5 to Brinton, 1 letter to Brinton from Frank McGee. Linguistics; folklore; Congress of Americanists; foundation of American Anthropology; Section H, American Association for the Advancement of Science. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Edward Gifford and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 19 April 1929 - 2 February 1931 | | | | Extent: | 6 letters | | | | Abstract: | 6 letter (3 to Boas, 3 to Gifford). The publication American Anthropologist. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Edward Sapir and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 27 February 1902 - 15 December 1938 | | | | Extent: | 700 letters | | | | Abstract: | 675 letters (362 to Boas, 313 to Sapir) + 25 letters to/from Donald Brand, Walter Dyk, J.W. Fewkes, Mary Haas, A.L. Kroeber, W.G. Leland, C. Wissler, V.F. Ray, Victoria Pike, E.W. Gifford, F.W. Hodge. Professional positions; museums; Bureau of American Ethnology; American Indian languages; research and publication support; Committee on Research in Indian Languages; Geological Survey, Canada; Handbook of American Languages Laboratory of Anthropology; fieldwork; publications; research and graduate fellowship; personal | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Edward Tylor and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 15 August 1888 - 8 March 1908 | | | | Extent: | 29 letters | | | | Abstract: | 29 letters (25 to Boas, 4 to Tylor). BAAS Northwest Coast Tribes Committee; Northwest coast material culture collections; Northwest coast fieldwork; anthropology teaching at Oxford; Eskimo ethnography; research support by BAAS and Canadian government | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Financial support for research and publication | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Elsie Clews Parsons and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 4 January 1907 - December 1941 | | | | Extent: | 365 letters | | | | Abstract: | 346 letters (161 to Boas, 185 to Parsons) + 19 letters to/from P.E. Goddard, A.M. Totter, Frank Harrison, M.J. Herskovits, A.M. Huntington, and others. Folklore, religion, ceremonialism; research funding; American Folklore Society; museum exhibits; publications | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Ernest Hooton and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1 February 1913 - 9 April 1942 | | | | Extent: | 52 letters | | | | Abstract: | 46 letters (21 to Boas, 25 to Hooton) + 6 letters to/from G.H. Estabrooks, A. Hrdlicka, Frederic T. Lewis, T. W. Todd. Professional positions; National Research Council; American Association of Physical Anthropologists; anthropometry; race; race and culture; publications. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Ernest Kalibala and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 2 May 1929 - 4 June 1942 | | | | Extent: | 9 letters | | | | Abstract: | 8 letters (6 to Boas, 2 to Kalibala) + 1 letter to Mabel Carney. Miscellaneous Translations; personal | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Linguistics and philology | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Frank Baker and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 10 December 1898 - 10 March 1902 | | | | Extent: | 6 letters | | | | Abstract: | 6 letters (4 to Boas, 2 to Baker). American Anthropologist | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Frank G. Speck and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 3 June 1905 - 26 Januaryary 1941 | | | | Extent: | 96 letters | | | | Abstract: | 93 letters (50 to Boas, 43 to Speck) + 3 letters to/from H.A. Andrews, M. Eischberg, H.W. Shoemaker. American Indian languages and ethnography; Penobscot folklore; fieldwork; Bureau of American Ethnology; Committee on Research of American Indian Langs.; research funding; professional positions; conferences; publications; personal | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Frans Olbrechts and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 15 December 1924 - 12 May 1939 | | | | Extent: | 114 letters | | | | Abstract: | 111 letters (66 to Boas, 45 to Olbrechts) + 3 letters from Olbrechts to Commission for Relief in Belgium, Educational Foundation, J.W. Fewkes, W.W. Long. Olbrechts' matriculation at Columbia; fieldwork; Indian linguistics; museum work; teaching | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Franz Boas and Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1926, 1936-1941 | | | | Extent: | 17 letters | | | | Abstract: | Suggestions for fieldwork. Masks; publications; anthropological work; comments about "Pueblo Indian Religion"; thanks to Parsons for continued help with ethnology work; personal | | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (572 P25) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Franz Boas and William Beynon
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1933-1937 | | | | Extent: | Approximately 70 letters | | | | Abstract: | Beynon worked closely with Franz Boas, providing him with an extensive series of narratives and translations from the Tsimshian. The letters complement, but do not overlap with those in the Boas Papers | | | | Source: | William Beynon Papers (B B467) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Linguistics and philology | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Frederica De Laguna and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 11 February 1929 - December 1936 | | | | Extent: | 42 letters | | | | Abstract: | 42 letters (31 to Boas, 11 to De Laguna). Studies and course work at Columbia University; archaeological fieldwork in Greenland, Alaska, Yukon; museum collections and work; Eskimo material culture; support for research; professional positions; personal; publications. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Frederick Hoffman and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 7 January 1919 - 7 January 1921 | | | | Extent: | 4 letters | | | | Abstract: | Anthropometry | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Frederick Osborn and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 27 November 1933 - 7 November 1940 | | | | Extent: | 48 letters | | | | Abstract: | 43 letters (26 to Boas, 17 to Osborn) + 5 letters to/from E.A. Hooton, F.P. Keppel, Frank Lorimer. Eugenics; heredity and environment; race; population studies; publications | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Frederick Putnam and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 17 November 1887 - 19 October 1914 | | | | Extent: | 187 letters | | | | Abstract: | 180 letters (120 to Boas, 60 to Putnam) + 7 letters to/from Samuel Crawford, E.L. Hewett, M.K. Jesup, Augustus Lowell, H.S. Pritchett, B. Laufer. American Anthropological Association; American Anthropologist; museum collections; Columbian Exposition exhibitions; American Museum of Natural History; Archaeology Institute; AAAS; International School of American Archaeology and Ethnology; professional positions; research funding; personal; publications | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Fritz Graebner and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1 July 1912 - 4 July 1920 | | | | Extent: | 6 letters | | | | Abstract: | 6 letters (5 to Boas, 1 to Graebner). Folk psychology; culture circles; Australian and Pacific ethnology; science in post-WWI Germany. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Gladys Reichard and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 18 May 1919 - 6 November 1941 | | | | Extent: | 147 letters | | | | Abstract: | 140 letters (106 to Boas, 34 to Reichard) + 7 letters to/from J.M. Cowan, Schmidt, Paul Jacobs, Lucy Knox, D.A. McDonald, F.M. Settler, "Frances." Graduate studies at Columbia; Algonquin language and folklore; Wiyot language; Navaho social structure; linguistics; material culture; fieldwork; publications; personal | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Gordon Marsh and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | Iowa | | | | Dates: | 2 March 1936 - 17 May 1942 | | | | Extent: | 16 letters | | | | Abstract: | 16 letters (10 to Boas, 6 to Marsh). Fieldwork; linguistics; Iowa language; personal; miscellaneous. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Linguistics and philology | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Harry Hoijer and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 24 January 1930 - 14 December 1942 | | | | Extent: | 22 letters | | | | Abstract: | 22 letters (15 to Boas, 7 to Hoijer). American Indian languges; Committee on Native American Languages; fieldwork; research funding; publications. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Harry Shapiro and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 6 January 1936 - 12 October 1942 | | | | Extent: | 24 letters | | | | Abstract: | 23 letters (13 to Boas, 10 to Shapiro) + 1 letter from E.P. Boas. Physical anthropology; anthropometric data | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Herbert Jennings and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 8 July 1933 - 31 July 1933 | | | | Extent: | 3 letters | | | | Abstract: | 3 letters (1 to Boas, 2 to Jennings). Race; sterilization; genetics | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Horatio Hale and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 21 March 1887 - 20 January 1896 | | | | Extent: | 131 letters | | | | Abstract: | 130 letters (118 to Boas, 12 to Hale) + 1 letter from Hale to G.M. Clinton Dawson. British Association; Canadian ethnography; anthropological societies; fieldwork; museums; linguistics; craniology and physical anthropology; race and intelligence; Indian cultural traits; research funding; publications | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between J. Alden Mason and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 30 November 1903 - 7 November 1940 | | | | Extent: | 240 letters | | | | Abstract: | 236 letters (152 to Boas, 84 to Mason) + 4 letters to/from A.M. Espinosa, H.H. Roberts, Wilbur K. Thomas. Archaeology; prehistory; fieldwork; linguistics; folklore; Puerto Rico Insular Survey; research funding; material culture; professional positions; publications | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between J. Walter Fewkes and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 24 March 1891 - 7 November 1928 | | | | Extent: | 226 letters | | | | Abstract: | 207 letters (77 to Boas, 111 to Fewkes) + 19 letters to/from C. P. Bowditch, W. H. Holmes, F. M. Olbrechts, E. Sapir, H. E. Sargent, and N. Whymant. Southwest archaeology and linguistics; American Archaeological Institute; Anthropological Society of Washington; publications. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between John Myres and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 21 May 1909 - 13 November 1940 | | | | Extent: | 22 letters | | | | Abstract: | 22 letters (16 to Boas, 6 to Myres). International School of American Archaeology and Ethnology; international congresses of anthropology and archaeology | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between John Powell and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 16 November 1887 - 25 May 1901 | | | | Extent: | 20 letters | | | | Abstract: | 20 letters (6 to Boas, 14 to Powell). Founding of American Anthropological Association; linguistic and ethnographic studies of Northwest Coast Indians; Bureau of American Ethnology; research funding; publications | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Linguistics and philology | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between John Swanton and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 17 March 1898 - 10 April 1942 | | | | Extent: | 310 letters | | | | Abstract: | 301 letters (162 to Boas, 139 to Swanton) + 9 letters to/from Miss and H.A. Andrews, Dr. Frachtenberg, Department of Justice. University studies; fieldwork in Northwest coast and among the Sioux; Haida linguistics and culture; linguistics and ethnography of Indians of Louisiana, Texas, Southwest, Northwest Coast; Bureau of American Ethnology; Dr. Frachtenberg's dismissal from Bureau of American Ethnology; publications; American Anthropologist | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between L. C. Dunn and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 5 August 1933 - 20 January 1941 | | | | Extent: | 55 letters | | | | Abstract: | 41 letters (26 to Boas, 15 to Dunn) + 15 letters to/from G. Breit, F. D. Fackenthal, E. R. Murrow, Mark van Doren, and others. Columbia University affairs; Columbia University Faculty Fellowship Fund Committee for Displaced German Scholars. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Leslie Spier and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 24 May 1917 - 27 February 1940 | | | | Extent: | 91 letters | | | | Abstract: | 91 letters (58 to Boas, 33 to Spier). Puerto Rican physical anthropology; Havasupai folkore; museum work; fieldwork; teaching; professional positions; publications | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Leslie White and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 23 September 1931 - 16 April 1936 | | | | Extent: | 5 letters | | | | Abstract: | 5 letters (3 to Boas, 2 to White). Keresan linguistics; Fanny Bandelier; research funding | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Linguistics and philology | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Margaret Mead and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 14 July 1925 - 28 October 1940 | | | | Extent: | 42 letters | | | | Abstract: | 41 letters (32 to Boas, 9 to Mead) + 1 letter to F.R. Lillie from Mead. Adolescence and family life in Samoa; personality and culture; Samoan ethnography; adolescence and social life in New Guinea; sexual behavior; National Research Council; Reo Fortune; Radcliffe-Brown. Includes 6 January 1926 report to NRC, entitled "A Study in Heredity and Environment Based on an Investigation of the Phenomena of Adolescence among Primitive and Civilized Peoples." | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Melville Herskovits and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 8 June 1923 - 14 November 1942 | | | | Extent: | 146 letters | | | | Abstract: | 139 letters (50 to Boas, 89 to Herskovits) + 7 letters to/from J. J. Augustin, H. R. Bryan, M. C. Kahn, E. C. Parsons, P. M. Rae, W. E. Both, George Saslow. The results of racial crossing among American Negroes; cephalic indices; anthropometry; Negro motor behavior; survival of African customs among Negroes in Caribbean and South America; fieldwork in Caribbean, South America, Africa, U.S.; Archives of Musicology, Berlin; funding for research and publications. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Otis Mason and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 23 May 1885 - 22 October 1908 | | | | Extent: | 65 letters | | | | Abstract: | 65 letters (44 to Boas, 21 to Mason). Museum collections; American Indian material culture; anthropology and religion; Indian mortuary rituals; ethnological theory; publications | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Otto Klineberg and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 24 March 1927 - July 1934 | | | | Extent: | 59 letters | | | | Abstract: | 57 letters (30 to Boas, 27 to Klineberg) + 2 letters to Klineberg from Z. N. Hurston and F. Lorimer. Child behavior; influence of environment and race on behavior; racial and social differences in mental ability; intelligence and emotions; ethnic psychology; grants | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Paul Radin and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 28 May 1908 - 18 February 1942 | | | | Extent: | 127 letters | | | | Abstract: | 124 letters (69 to Boas, 55 to Radin) + 3 letters to H.A. Andrews from Radin. Bureau of American Ethnology; fieldwork; Indian linguistics, especially Winnebago, Huave, Zapotecan; Mexican and Winnebago folklore; professional positions; research support | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Pliny Goddard and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 11 December 1903 - 18 November 1927 | | | | Extent: | 116 letters | | | | Abstract: | 116 letters (58 to Boas, 58 to Mason). Handbook of American Languages; Hupa linguistics; American Archaeological Institute; American Folklore Society; 23rd International Congress of Americanists; National Research Council; Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History; museum exhibits, collections; teaching; publications | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Archaeology, prehistory | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Ralph Linton and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 11 September 1917 - 10 February 1943 | | | | Extent: | 19 letters | | | | Abstract: | 17 letters (8 to Boas, 9 to Linton) + 2 letters to/from E.P. Boas, L.P. Eisenhart. Professional positions; Polynesian culture; research funding; personal | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Raymond Pearl and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 26 November 1917 - 3 October 1935 | | | | Extent: | 56 letters | | | | Abstract: | 55 letter (16 to Boas, 39 to Pearl) + 1 letter to Pearl from A. Hrdlicka. Leo Frachtenberg; American anthropometry; International Journal of American Linguistics; NAS Committee on Funds in Aid of Research Publication; race and mental character; publications | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Linguistics and philology | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Reo Fortune and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 14 July 1930 - 1 October 1942 | | | | Extent: | 67 letters | | | | Abstract: | 67 letters (54 to Boas, 13 to Fortune). Omaha secret societies; Dobu ethnology; Chinese ethnography; social structure and behavior in Melanesia; linguistics; Margaret Mead; professional employment; biological basis of social behavior. Included with the correspondence are manuscript copies of some of Fortune's papers, which he sent to Boas for comment. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Robert Bell and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1 March 1886 - 25 June 1908 | | | | Extent: | 51 letters | | | | Abstract: | 51 letters. (45 to Boas, 6 to Bell). Boas berth on expedition to Hudson Bay (1886); Indian folklore and craniology; museum collections; fieldwork in Baffinland and British Columbia; development of School of American Archaeology in Mexico. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Robert Lowie and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 21 September 1905 - 26 January 1942 | | | | Extent: | 127 letters | | | | Abstract: | 126 letters (70 to Boas, 56 to Lowie) + 1 letter from F.H. Allport. Ethnology; ethnology and psychology; fieldwork; folklore; social organization; material culture; religion; linguistics; National Research Council; professional positions; personal; publications | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Robert Marett and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 6 March 1912 - 18 March 1931 | | | | Extent: | 19 letters | | | | Abstract: | 19 letters (11 to Boas, 8 to Marett). International Congress of Anthropological Sciences; International Congress of Americanists; personal; publications | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Roland Dixon and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 8 January 1898 - 18 November 1931 | | | | Extent: | 305 letters | | | | Abstract: | 305 letters (127 to Dixon, 178 to Boas). Folklore; American Folk-Lore Society; professional employment; research funding; linguistics; graduate education; International School of American Archaeology and Ethnology; use of anthropometric data for distinguishing physical types within populations; publications. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Ruth Bunzel and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 9 June 1923 - 30 April 1937 | | | | Extent: | 56 letters | | | | Abstract: | 56 letters (39 to Boas, 17 to Bunzel). Ethnological Society; Zuni life and culture; relations with Zuni sources; Maya Indians in Guatemala; employment; research funding. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between William Farabee and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 18 November 1919 - 29 October 1921 | | | | Extent: | 5 letters | | | | Abstract: | 5 letters (3 to Boas, 2 to Farabee). Journal of Physical Anthropology; the American Anthropological Association; miscellaneous. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between William H. Holmes and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 5 August 1886 - 30 October 1919 | | | | Extent: | 504 letters | | | | Abstract: | 475 letters (224 to Boas, 251 to Holmes) + 29 letters to/from T.S. Denison, A.L. Kroeber, S.P. Langley, Edward Sapir, Frank G. Speck, J.P. Dunn, J.W. Fewkes, J.W.B. Hewett, F.W. Hodge, W.J. McGee, and others. Bureau of American Ethnology; exhibits and publications; Handbook of American Languages; International Congress of Americanists; American Indian linguistics. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between William McGee and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 5 December 1893 - 7 May 1910 | | | | Extent: | 373 letters | | | | Abstract: | 366 letters (232 to Boas, 134 to McGee) + 7 letters from McGee to D.G. Brinton, W.H. Holmes, H.H. St.Clair, Charles D. Walcott, RS. Woodward. Bureau of American Ethnology; American Anthropological Association; Smithsonian Institute; American Anthropologist; St. Louis Purchase Expn.; anthropometry of American Indians; philology; research funding; American ethnography; professional positions; publications | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Linguistics and philology | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between William Newell and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 27 February 1882 - 17 December 1906 | | | | Extent: | 138 letters | | | | Abstract: | 138 letters (129 to Boas, 9 to Newell). Journal of American Folk-Lore; American Folk-Lore Society; research funding | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Zelia Nuttall and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 14 May 1901 - 12 December 1928 | | | | Extent: | 21 letters | | | | Abstract: | 21 letters (9 to Boas, 12 to Nuttall). Boas' plans for American anthropology; International School of American Archaeology and Ethnology; Mexican archaeology; Nuttall's work and property in Mexico; anthropological education | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Franz Boas Field notebooks and anthropometric data
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | Circa 1883-1912 | | | | Extent: | 3 boxes (1.5 linear feet) | | | | Abstract: | Two boxes of data sheets containing anthropometric measurements of American Indians; one box of assorted field notebooks, diaries, and manuscript copies of Boas papers on assorted topics. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas field notebooks and anthropometric data (B B61.5) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Linguistics and philology | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Franz Boas Manuscript Materials
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1904-1938 | | | | Extent: | 27 items | | | | Abstract: | Includes correspondence with Frank G. Speck. Letters recommending Speck for scholarship; Catawba texts; Cherokee fieldwork of Frans Olbrechts; American Council of Learned Societies on Research in American Native Languages; grants; languages; publications; personal. Letters regarding Delaware Indian Big House Ceremony, concerning publication and comments about Speck's work. Franz Boas is one of the correspondents. Includes notes on lecture of Franz Boas in Philadelphia, concerning the primacy of custom over inner morality (Montagnais-Naskapi), 1918; Boethuck report, 17 December 1911; Speck's Penobscot work, 31 May 1940; Nanticoke tribe work, 29 March 1916; notes recalling Speck and Boas' visit in 1904 and efforts concerning Yuchi Indian grammar; Speck lecture notes at Columbia including, Culture and Chinook, Anthropology 707 and Tribes of North Pacific, circa 1904-1917 | | | | Source: | Frank Gouldsmith Speck Papers (Ms. Coll. 126) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Linguistics and philology | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Franz Boas Manuscript Materials
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1913-1942 | | | | Extent: | 7 folders | | | | Abstract: | Correspondence with Elsie Clews Parsons: Various fieldwork discussion; folklore; "Preserving our Ideals: Thoughts at these Critical Times of One Who Subordinates Patriotism to His Conception of Mankind as a Whole - An Anthropological View" by Boas, 1917; education; publications; Dr. Leo J. Frachtenberg - discharge from Smithsonian, issues and his work; publication funding and publishing; language; "Notes from Laguna", 1922; Pliny Earle Goddard; music; ethnology; peers; Native American culture; discussion on various anthropological work; journals/subscriptions; Boas retirement; book dedication to Parsons; personal. Lectures, remarks to Boas' class in anthropology, 1918. Boas address to American Folklore Society, notes, 1900. Parson's Obituary by Boas, 1942. Photograph of Boas, [Reichard album], n.d. | | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (Ms. Coll. 29) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Franz Boas Papers
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | German | | | | Dates: | 1862-1942 | | | | Extent: | 98 boxes (49 linear feet) | | | | Abstract: | This collection contains the mass of Boas' professional correspondence and is an important source of material concerning both his own career and American anthropology in the first half of the twentieth century. The correspondence covers many topics, including physical anthropology and anthropometry, race, American Indian linguistics, ethnography and ethnology, fieldwork, anthropological teaching, research funding, international relations in science, the disciplinary and institutional history of American anthropology, and the social relations of science. The number of correspondents is extensive. For an index of names and dates see Scholarly Resources' Guide. The Library holds both original and microfilm copies of the correspondence. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Archaeology, prehistory | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Franz Boas Professional Papers
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | German | | | | Dates: | Circa 1860-1942 | | | | Extent: | 27 boxes (12.5 linear feet) | | | | Abstract: | This is a collection of miscellaneous materials concerning Franz Boas' family life and professional career, useful for studies of Boas' general intellectual and social interests and commitments. His teaching career can be partially traced through Columbia University course listings, public and professional addresses and speeches, various committee reports, notebooks, research accounts and budgets, etc. There are folders containing translations of some of Boas' letters to Abraham Jacobi, Marie Boas, Ernst Boas, and other family members, between the years of 1877 and 1931. Professional correspondence (not included in Scholarly Resources' Guide to the Microfilm Collection of the Professional Papers of Franz Boas) is present in this collection. Correspondents include Adolph Bastian, Ruth Bunzel, T. McKeen Cattell, J. Waiter Fewkes, A.C. Haddon, A.L. Kroeber, Robert Lowie, F. von Luschan, William McGee, J. Alden Mason, F. W. Putnam, Paul Radin, Edward Sapir, Karl von den Steinen, John W. Swanton, Alfred W. Tozzer. Other documents include a draft constitution for the "American Anthropologic Association"; "Report of Committee on Introduction of Anthropologic Teaching", to Section H, American Association for the Advancement of Science; papers relating to American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom; Columbia course descriptions in anthropology (various years); research accounts and budgets for 1928, 1936, 1937, 1940, 1941; diary of Arctic Expedition, 1883-1884, along with maps, notebooks, photographs, sketchbook; diaries for 1886, 1889, 1890; copies of various lectures, 1885-1917; curricula vitae, with short autobiographies; collections of notes on various topics; Kwakiutl ethnographic texts and vocabularies; addresses and papers, 1909-1941; catalog of Boas' library; radio addresses and speeches; Boas family genealogies; news clippings; photographs. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Professional Papers (B B61p) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Frederick Hodge Correspondence with Franz Boas, et al.
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 23 July 1894 - 17 December 1936 | | | | Extent: | 661 letters | | | | Abstract: | 622 letters (334 to Boas, 288 to Hodge) + 14 letters to/from H. A. Andrews, 11 letters to/from L. J. Frachtenberg, and 14 letters to/from C. M. Buchanan, Stewart Culin, Robert Fletcher, A. A. Goldenweiser, E. W. Hawkes, A. A. Kroeber, M. A. Miner, C. E. Myers, F. S. Nichols, E. C. Parsons, E. Sapir, P. B. Pierce, and G. P. Putnam's Sons. American Anthropologist; American Anthropological Association; professional positions; Boas' studies for the U. S. Immigration Commission; American School of Architecture; Handbook of American Indians; American Indian languages; Bureau of American Ethnology; publications, research and funding. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Kwakiutl slipfile
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | Kwakiutl | | | | Dates: | n.d. | | | | Extent: | Approximately 2,375 slips | | | | Abstract: | Personal names, myth names, tribe and clan names | | | | Source: | Harvey Pitkin Papers (Ms. Coll. 78) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Letter to William Fenton
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1933 | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | Boas thanking for the invitation to speak before the Anthropology Club of Yale but declines | | | | Source: | William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Letters to Ashley Montagu
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1940, 1942 | | | | Extent: | 2 letters | | | | Abstract: | Finance; article publication | | | | Source: | Ashley Montagu Papers (Ms. Coll. 109) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Letters to E. Adamson Hoebel
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1933 | | | | Extent: | 2 letters | | | | Abstract: | Seminar reminder; fieldwork. The Hoebel papers also contain an essay of Boas: "Living Philosophies, II: An Anthropologist's Credo" (1938) | | | | Source: | E. Adamson Hoebel Papers (Ms. Coll. 43) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | |
| | Author: | Boas, Franziska, 1902-1988 | | | | | Dancer, daughter of Franz Boas | |
| | | Title: | Reminiscences of Franziska Boas, as Recorded by the Oral History Research Office, Columbia University
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Transcript | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1972 | | | | Extent: | 77 leaves | | | | Abstract: | This is a copy of the written transcription of an interview with Franziska Boas, on the subject of her father. The interview provides useful information regarding Franz Boas' personal life, habits, and attitudes on social issues. There is also information on his professional career at Columbia, his fieldwork, and his relationship with his informants. | | | | Source: | Reminiscences of Franziska Boas (B B61re) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Bowers, Stephen, 1832-1907 | | | | | Minister. Interested in archaeology, prehistory, and ethnology, particularly that of southern California | |
| | | Title: | Stephen Bowers Correspondence
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1860-1915 | | | | Extent: | 120 items | | | | Abstract: | Approximately one-third of the collection deals with archaeology, ethnology, and craniology. Correspondents include Spencer F. Baird, John S. Billings, Daniel Garrison Brinton, Frederick W. Putnam, and others. Museum collections, in geology, Indian artifacts, craniology; California geology and archaeology. | | | | Source: | Stephen Bowers Correspondence (B B672) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Brinton, Daniel Garrison, 1837-1899 | | | | | Physician, anthropologist. Assistant editor, Medical and Surgical Reporter, 1867, editor, 1874-1887; professor, ethnology and archaeology, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1884-1886; professor, American linguistics and archaeology, University of Pennsylvania, 1886-1898. Brinton was an Americanist, concentrating his attention on the linguistics and archaeology of North and South American Indians. He was a leader in the systematic classification of American Indian languages and in the analysis of the origin of American Indian mounds. | |
| | | Title: | Brinton Memorial Series Materials
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1939-1943 | | | | Extent: | 6 folders | | | | Abstract: | Publication and distribution of the Brinton Memorial series by the Philadelphia Anthropological Society. | | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| | Author: | Brinton, Daniel Garrison, 1837-1899 | | | | | Physician, anthropologist. Assistant editor, Medical and Surgical Reporter, 1867, editor, 1874-1887; professor, ethnology and archaeology, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1884-1886; professor, American linguistics and archaeology, University of Pennsylvania, 1886-1898. Brinton was an Americanist, concentrating his attention on the linguistics and archaeology of North and South American Indians. He was a leader in the systematic classification of American Indian languages and in the analysis of the origin of American Indian mounds. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Daniel Brinton and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1 September 1886 - 1 December 1898 | | | | Extent: | 57 letters | | | | Abstract: | 57 letters: 51 to Boas, 5 to Brinton, 1 letter to Brinton from Frank McGee. Linguistics; folklore; Congress of Americanists; foundation of American Anthropology; Section H, American Association for the Advancement of Science. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Brinton, Daniel Garrison, 1837-1899 | | | | | Physician, anthropologist. Assistant editor, Medical and Surgical Reporter, 1867, editor, 1874-1887; professor, ethnology and archaeology, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1884-1886; professor, American linguistics and archaeology, University of Pennsylvania, 1886-1898. Brinton was an Americanist, concentrating his attention on the linguistics and archaeology of North and South American Indians. He was a leader in the systematic classification of American Indian languages and in the analysis of the origin of American Indian mounds. | |
| | | Title: | Letter to Stephen Bowers
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1 April 1884 | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | Publications | | | | Source: | Stephen Bowers Correspondence (B B672) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| | Author: | Brinton, Daniel Garrison, 1837-1899 | | | | | Physician, anthropologist. Assistant editor, Medical and Surgical Reporter, 1867, editor, 1874-1887; professor, ethnology and archaeology, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1884-1886; professor, American linguistics and archaeology, University of Pennsylvania, 1886-1898. Brinton was an Americanist, concentrating his attention on the linguistics and archaeology of North and South American Indians. He was a leader in the systematic classification of American Indian languages and in the analysis of the origin of American Indian mounds. | |
| | | Title: | Translation of "The Walam Olum, or Red Score of the Lenape"
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1885 | | | | Extent: | 1 item | | | | Abstract: |
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| | | | Source: | C. F. Voegelin Papers (Ms. Coll. 68) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Folklore, mythology, religion | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| | Author: | Bunzel, Ruth Leah, 1898-1990 | | | | | Anthropologist. Associate director, Research in Contemporary Cultures, Columbia University, 1947-1951, lecturer, anthropology, Columbia University, 1954-1960, adjunct professor, 1960-1969, senior research associate, 1969-. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Ruth Bunzel and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 9 June 1923 - 30 April 1937 | | | | Extent: | 56 letters | | | | Abstract: | 56 letters (39 to Boas, 17 to Bunzel). Ethnological Society; Zuni life and culture; relations with Zuni sources; Maya Indians in Guatemala; employment; research funding. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Bunzel, Ruth Leah, 1898-1990 | | | | | Anthropologist. Associate director, Research in Contemporary Cultures, Columbia University, 1947-1951, lecturer, anthropology, Columbia University, 1954-1960, adjunct professor, 1960-1969, senior research associate, 1969-. | |
| | | Title: | Letters to Alfred Hallowell
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1938 | | | | Extent: | 2 letters | | | | Abstract: | Rorschach test among different cultures; F.L. Wells comments to Hallowell about Bunzel's mimeograph | | | | Source: | Alfred Irving Hallowell Papers (Ms. Coll. 26) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| | Author: | Bunzel, Ruth Leah, 1898-1990 | | | | | Anthropologist. Associate director, Research in Contemporary Cultures, Columbia University, 1947-1951, lecturer, anthropology, Columbia University, 1954-1960, adjunct professor, 1960-1969, senior research associate, 1969-. | |
| | | Title: | Letters to Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 26 October 1939 - 30 May 1940 | | | | Extent: | 2 letters | | | | Abstract: | 2 letters to Parsons. Folklore; Zuni ethnology and fieldwork | | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (572 P25.1) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | |
| | Author: | Bunzel, Ruth Leah, 1898-1990 | | | | | Anthropologist. Associate director, Research in Contemporary Cultures, Columbia University, 1947-1951, lecturer, anthropology, Columbia University, 1954-1960, adjunct professor, 1960-1969, senior research associate, 1969-. | |
| | | Title: | Letters to J. Alden Mason
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 26 June 1930 - 25 January 1933 | | | | Extent: | 6 letters | | | | Abstract: | 6 letters to Mason. Fieldwork in Guatemala; Quiche linguistics | | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Linguistics and philology | |
| | Author: | Bunzel, Ruth Leah, 1898-1990 | | | | | Anthropologist. Associate director, Research in Contemporary Cultures, Columbia University, 1947-1951, lecturer, anthropology, Columbia University, 1954-1960, adjunct professor, 1960-1969, senior research associate, 1969-. | |
| | | Title: | Spanish Elements in the Kachina Cult of the Pueblos
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1928-1929 | | | | Extent: | 30 pages | | | | Abstract: | Correspondence regarding the manuscript "Spanish Elements in the Kachina Cult of the Pueblos" | | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers, Series III (Ms. Coll. 29) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | |
| | Author: | Bunzel, Ruth Leah, 1898-1990 | | | | | Anthropologist. Associate director, Research in Contemporary Cultures, Columbia University, 1947-1951, lecturer, anthropology, Columbia University, 1954-1960, adjunct professor, 1960-1969, senior research associate, 1969-. | |
| | | Title: | Tentative Questionnaire for Handbook of Psychological Leads for Ethnological Field Workers
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Records | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | n.d. | | | | Extent: | 143 leaves | | | | Abstract: | List of subjects for observation and analysis. Subjects include environmental determinants of behavior, food supply, technology, division of labor, use of property, economic stratification, class relations. | | | | Source: | Leonard Carmichael Papers (B C212) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | |
| | Author: | Bunzel, Ruth Leah, 1898-1990 | | | | | Anthropologist. Associate director, Research in Contemporary Cultures, Columbia University, 1947-1951, lecturer, anthropology, Columbia University, 1954-1960, adjunct professor, 1960-1969, senior research associate, 1969-. | |
| | | Title: | Zuni lexicon
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | Zuni | | | | Dates: | n.d. | | | | Extent: | Approximately 7,000 slips | | | | Abstract: | Arranged alphabetically and in terms of grammatical categories | | | | Source: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages (497.3 B63c, Zu.2) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Linguistics and philology | |
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