| Author: | Laufer, Berthold, 1874-1934 | | | | Sinologist. Jesup North Pacific Expedition, Saghalin and the Amur, 1898-1899; Jacob H. Schiff Expedition, China, 1901-1904; assistant ethnologist, American Museum of Natural History, 1904-1908; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia University, 1905-1907; Blackstone Expedition, Tibet and China, 1908-1910; assistant, Field Museum of Natural History, 1908-1915, curator, 1915-1934; Marshall Field Expedition to China, 1923 | |
| | 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: | Laufer, Berthold, 1874-1934 | | | | Sinologist. Jesup North Pacific Expedition, Saghalin and the Amur, 1898-1899; Jacob H. Schiff Expedition, China, 1901-1904; assistant ethnologist, American Museum of Natural History, 1904-1908; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia University, 1905-1907; Blackstone Expedition, Tibet and China, 1908-1910; assistant, Field Museum of Natural History, 1908-1915, curator, 1915-1934; Marshall Field Expedition to China, 1923 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Berthold Laufer and J. Alden Mason
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 30 January 1926 - 21 October 1933 | | | Extent: | 49 letters | | | Abstract: | 46 letters (23 to Mason, 23 to Laufer). + 3 letters to/from Walter Lehmann, D. C. Davies. Archaeology; fieldwork; museum collections; publications; personal | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| Author: | Laufer, Berthold, 1874-1934 | | | | Sinologist. Jesup North Pacific Expedition, Saghalin and the Amur, 1898-1899; Jacob H. Schiff Expedition, China, 1901-1904; assistant ethnologist, American Museum of Natural History, 1904-1908; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia University, 1905-1907; Blackstone Expedition, Tibet and China, 1908-1910; assistant, Field Museum of Natural History, 1908-1915, curator, 1915-1934; Marshall Field Expedition to China, 1923 | |
| | Title: | Letters to Alfred Hallowell
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1922, 1926 | | | Extent: | 2 letters | | | Abstract: | Laufer response to inquiry of papers/publications; study of the conception of the bear among the tribes of Northern America and Asia; comments on "Bear Ceremonialism in the Northern Hemisphere"; congratulations from Laufer on earning Ph.D | | | 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 | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Lesley, J. Peter, 1819-1903 | | | | Geologist, secretary and librarian of the APS. Assistant, Pennsylvania Geological Survey, 1838-1841, 1852-1856, state geologist, 1873-1887; Presbyterian minister, 1845-1853; Secretary, American Iron Association, 1856-1864; professor, mining, University of Pennsylvania, 1859-1872, dean of the science department, 1872-1875, dean, Towne Science School, 1875-1883, professor emeritus, 1883-1903; librarian, American Philosophical Society, 1859-1885, secretary, 1859-1887, vice-president, 1887-1903 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence with various individuals
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | Circa 1859-1887 | | | Extent: |
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| | | Abstract: | Correspondence with various individuals in his capacity as secretary and librarian. Correspondents include Daniel Garrison Brinton, Joseph Carson, A.S. Gatschet, A.H. Guyot, S.S. Haldeman, Mathew S. Henry, Everard Im Thurn. American Indian tribes and languages; archaeological specimens; antiquities; publications. | | | Source: | American Philosophical Society Archives (A.P.S. Archives) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Linguistics and philology | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Lesley, J. Peter, 1819-1903 | | | | Geologist, secretary and librarian of the APS. Assistant, Pennsylvania Geological Survey, 1838-1841, 1852-1856, state geologist, 1873-1887; Presbyterian minister, 1845-1853; Secretary, American Iron Association, 1856-1864; professor, mining, University of Pennsylvania, 1859-1872, dean of the science department, 1872-1875, dean, Towne Science School, 1875-1883, professor emeritus, 1883-1903; librarian, American Philosophical Society, 1859-1885, secretary, 1859-1887, vice-president, 1887-1903 | |
| | Title: | J. Peter Lesley Papers
| | | Type: | Collection | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1826-1898 | | | Extent: | 7.75 linear feet (approximately 3,000 items) | | | Abstract: | Letters, notebooks, papers. Correspondents include Matthew S. Henry, George A. Belcourt, Joseph Carson, J.W. Powell, and others on Indian languages and ethnography. There are six notebooks on Egyptian hieroglyphics, and others on philology, antiquities, and ancient man. Paper topics include studies on C.O. Mueller's "Doric Race," Stonehenge, the deities of the Rig Veda, "Grotes Greece," the Aenead Aphrodite, and popular superstitions | | | Source: | J. Peter Lesley Papers (B L56) | | | |
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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: | Levi-Strauss, Claude, 1908- | | | | Anthropologist. Professor, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1935-1938; visiting professor New School for Social Research, 1941-1945; cultural counselor French Embassy, 1946-1947; associate curator Musee de l'Homme, 1948-1949; director Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, 1950-1982; professor College de Franc, 1959-1982 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Claude Levi-Strauss and Dell Hymes
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1961-1968, 1977, 1981 | | | Extent: | Approximately 11 letters | | | Abstract: | Computers; Levi-Strauss bibliography; myth; languages; publications and comments; Levi-Strauss recommendation of Hymes | | | Source: | Dell H. Hymes Papers (Ms. Coll. 55) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Levi-Strauss, Claude, 1908- | | | | Anthropologist. Professor, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1935-1938; visiting professor New School for Social Research, 1941-1945; cultural counselor French Embassy, 1946-1947; associate curator Musee de l'Homme, 1948-1949; director Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, 1950-1982; professor College de Franc, 1959-1982 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Claude Levi-Strauss and William Fenton
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1967-1976 | | | Extent: | Approximately 20 letters | | | Abstract: | Basketry; Wampum belts; academic employment; fieldwork; Seneca "Feast of Dreams"; discussion of publications; Indian ceremonies; Six Nations; Indian mythology; report on work of Urzsula Chodowiec's dissertation on Iroquois Mythology; personal | | | 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 | Folklore, mythology, religion | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| Author: | Lewis, Meriwether, 1744-1809 | | | | Explorer, soldier. U.S. Army, 1795-1806; private secretary to Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1803; co-leader of Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the head-waters of the Missouri River and to discover a land route to the Pacific Ocean, 1804-1806; governor of Louisiana Territory, 1807-1809 | |
| | Title: | Journal of Meriwether Lewis
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 30 August 1803 - 12 December 1803 | | | Extent: | 1 volume (approximately 252 leaves) | | | Abstract: | Journal of river trip down Ohio River to the winter camp of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Interlineated in the journal, and also in a separate volume (917.3 L58b), are queries posed by Nicholas Biddle to William Clark in 1810 about the succeeding Lewis and Clark expedition. Lewis' observations in his journal include remarks on Indian mounds and on the social organization, religion, and material culture of Indians observed on the journey | | | Source: | Journal of Meriwether Lewis (917.3 L58p) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | |
| Author: | Lewis, Meriwether, 1744-1809 | | | | Explorer, soldier. U.S. Army, 1795-1806; private secretary to Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1803; co-leader of Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the head-waters of the Missouri River and to discover a land route to the Pacific Ocean, 1804-1806; governor of Louisiana Territory, 1807-1809 | |
| | Title: | Lewis and Clark Journals
| | | Type: | Collection | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1803-1806 | | | Extent: | 30 volumes (18 bound codices and 12 loose-leaved codices) | | | Abstract: | Journal of Travels to the Source of the Missouri and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. Includes interlineations by Nicholas Biddle. Journals contain notes on Indian languages, material culture, social organization, customs. See also Journal by John Ordway (917.3 Or2), another member of the expedition. | | | Source: | Lewis and Clark Journals (917.3 L58) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Linguistics and philology | |
| Author: | Li, Fanggui (Fang-Kuei), 1902-1987 | | | | Linguist. Expert, Chipewyan and Athapascan languages. Professor of linguistics, University of Washington and University of Hawaii | |
| | Title: | Fanggui Li Collection
| | | Type: | Collection | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | Language: | English | Chipewyan | | | Dates: | 1928-1982 | | | Extent: | 1.5 linear feet | | | Abstract: | The Fanggui Li Collection contains materials reflecting Li's career in linguistics. The collection includes ten notebooks on the Chipewyan language, 1928, and two audiotapes of Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson's oral history interview with Li, 1982 | | | Source: | Fanggui Li Collection (Ms. Coll. 119) | | | |
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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 | Personal matters | |
| Author: | Lingelbach, William Ezra, 1871-1962 | | | | Historian, Librarian of the APS. Professor and dean, University of Pennsylvania | |
| | Title: | Letters to Charles Barbeau
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 24 February 1961, n.d. | | | Extent: | 2 letters | | | Abstract: | American Philosophical Society; publications | | | Source: | William E. Lingelbach Papers (B L635) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Linton, Ralph, 1893-1953 | | | | Anthropologist, archaeologist. Archaeologist, B.P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, 1920-1921; assistant curator, North American ethnology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1922-1926, Oceanic and Malayan ethnology, 1926-1928; associate professor, anthropology, University of Wisconsin, 1928-1930, professor, 1930-1937; professor, Columbia University, 1937-1946; professor, Yale University, 1946-1953; editor, American Anthropologist, 1939-1944 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Ralph Linton and Alfred Hallowell
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1928-1953 | | | Extent: | 14 letters | | | Abstract: | Editorship of American Anthropologist, direction of scholarship in anthropology, Tanala textiles | | | 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 | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Personal matters | |
| Author: | Linton, Ralph, 1893-1953 | | | | Anthropologist, archaeologist. Archaeologist, B.P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, 1920-1921; assistant curator, North American ethnology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1922-1926, Oceanic and Malayan ethnology, 1926-1928; associate professor, anthropology, University of Wisconsin, 1928-1930, professor, 1930-1937; professor, Columbia University, 1937-1946; professor, Yale University, 1946-1953; editor, American Anthropologist, 1939-1944 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Ralph Linton and E. Adamson Hoebel
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1933-1948 | | | Extent: | 19 letters | | | Abstract: | Editorial suggestions for a work by Hoebel, fieldwork, publications, Shoshoni and Commanche Sun Dances. See also Series I, American Anthropologist folder; Series VII photograph, "Comanche Brush Dance. Ralph Linton Counting His WWI Coups at. Walters, Okla." (1933) | | | 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 | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Linton, Ralph, 1893-1953 | | | | Anthropologist, archaeologist. Archaeologist, B.P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, 1920-1921; assistant curator, North American ethnology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1922-1926, Oceanic and Malayan ethnology, 1926-1928; associate professor, anthropology, University of Wisconsin, 1928-1930, professor, 1930-1937; professor, Columbia University, 1937-1946; professor, Yale University, 1946-1953; editor, American Anthropologist, 1939-1944 | |
| | 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: | Linton, Ralph, 1893-1953 | | | | Anthropologist, archaeologist. Archaeologist, B.P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, 1920-1921; assistant curator, North American ethnology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1922-1926, Oceanic and Malayan ethnology, 1926-1928; associate professor, anthropology, University of Wisconsin, 1928-1930, professor, 1930-1937; professor, Columbia University, 1937-1946; professor, Yale University, 1946-1953; editor, American Anthropologist, 1939-1944 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Ralph Linton and Hubert Dana Goodale
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 14 September 1949 - 29 September 1949 | | | Extent: | 2 letters | | | Abstract: | 2 letters (1 to Goodale, 1 to Linton). Environment versus heredity in personality | | | Source: | Hubert Dana Goodale Papers (B G61) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| Author: | Linton, Ralph, 1893-1953 | | | | Anthropologist, archaeologist. Archaeologist, B.P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, 1920-1921; assistant curator, North American ethnology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1922-1926, Oceanic and Malayan ethnology, 1926-1928; associate professor, anthropology, University of Wisconsin, 1928-1930, professor, 1930-1937; professor, Columbia University, 1937-1946; professor, Yale University, 1946-1953; editor, American Anthropologist, 1939-1944 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Ralph Linton and J. Alden Mason
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 15 February 1939 - 3 February 1947 | | | Extent: | 59 letters | | | Abstract: | 55 letters (31 to Mason, 24 to Linton) + 4 letters to/from Charles A. Reed, Helen E. Hause, American Anthropological Association Viking Fund; American Anthropologist | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| Author: | Linton, Ralph, 1893-1953 | | | | Anthropologist, archaeologist. Archaeologist, B.P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, 1920-1921; assistant curator, North American ethnology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1922-1926, Oceanic and Malayan ethnology, 1926-1928; associate professor, anthropology, University of Wisconsin, 1928-1930, professor, 1930-1937; professor, Columbia University, 1937-1946; professor, Yale University, 1946-1953; editor, American Anthropologist, 1939-1944 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Ralph Linton and William Fenton
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1943-1948 | | | Extent: | 6 letters | | | Abstract: | American Anthropologist, conferences, Seneca music and dance, Gertrude Kurath | | | Source: | William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) | | | |
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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: | Linton, Ralph, 1893-1953 | | | | Anthropologist, archaeologist. Archaeologist, B.P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, 1920-1921; assistant curator, North American ethnology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1922-1926, Oceanic and Malayan ethnology, 1926-1928; associate professor, anthropology, University of Wisconsin, 1928-1930, professor, 1930-1937; professor, Columbia University, 1937-1946; professor, Yale University, 1946-1953; editor, American Anthropologist, 1939-1944 | |
| | Title: | Letter to Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 16 January 1941 - 22 January 1941 | | | Extent: | 2 letters | | | Abstract: | Letter to Parsons + copy of letter to Leslie White. American Anthropologist | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (572 P25.1) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Linton, Ralph, 1893-1953 | | | | Anthropologist, archaeologist. Archaeologist, B.P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, 1920-1921; assistant curator, North American ethnology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1922-1926, Oceanic and Malayan ethnology, 1926-1928; associate professor, anthropology, University of Wisconsin, 1928-1930, professor, 1930-1937; professor, Columbia University, 1937-1946; professor, Yale University, 1946-1953; editor, American Anthropologist, 1939-1944 | |
| | Title: | The Persistence of the Mound Builder's Culture Among Recent Indian Tribes
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1916 | | | Extent: | 1 item | | | Abstract: | Master's thesis, University of Pennsylvania. Attempts through historical accounts to show persistence both of building of mounds and of artifacts, thought to be prehistoric, and argues that white contact produced the cultural loss | | | Source: | Frank Gouldsmith Speck Papers (Ms. Coll. 126) | | | |
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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 | |
| Author: | Lowie, Robert, 1883-1957 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, department of anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, 1908-1909, assistant curator, 1909-1913, associate curator, 1913-1921; associate professor, anthropology, University of California, 1917-1918, 1921-1925, professor, 1925-1950, emeritus professor, 1950-1957; editor, American Anthropologist, 1924-1933 | |
| | Title: | Cachina tables: Pueblo Indian religion
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | n.d. | | | Extent: | Approximately 150 items | | | Abstract: | Miscellaneous notes and correspondence with Kidder and Robert H. Lowie, Parts I and II | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (572 P25) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Folklore, mythology, religion | |
| Author: | Lowie, Robert, 1883-1957 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, department of anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, 1908-1909, assistant curator, 1909-1913, associate curator, 1913-1921; associate professor, anthropology, University of California, 1917-1918, 1921-1925, professor, 1925-1950, emeritus professor, 1950-1957; editor, American Anthropologist, 1924-1933 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Robert Lowie and Alfred Hallowell
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1946-1950 | | | Extent: | 6 letters | | | Abstract: | Comments on Lowie's book on Germans - suggestion on editing a series of books on European cultures/people and historical ethnography courses; employment/teaching as interim, visiting professor - Hallowell declines | | | 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 | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Lowie, Robert, 1883-1957 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, department of anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, 1908-1909, assistant curator, 1909-1913, associate curator, 1913-1921; associate professor, anthropology, University of California, 1917-1918, 1921-1925, professor, 1925-1950, emeritus professor, 1950-1957; editor, American Anthropologist, 1924-1933 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Robert Lowie and Alfred Hallowell
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1946-1950 | | | Extent: | 6 letters | | | Abstract: | Comments on Lowie's book on Germans - suggestion on editing a series of books on European cultures/people and historical ethnography courses; employment/teaching as interim, visiting professor - Hallowell declines | | | 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 | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Lowie, Robert, 1883-1957 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, department of anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, 1908-1909, assistant curator, 1909-1913, associate curator, 1913-1921; associate professor, anthropology, University of California, 1917-1918, 1921-1925, professor, 1925-1950, emeritus professor, 1950-1957; editor, American Anthropologist, 1924-1933 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Robert Lowie and E. Adamson Hoebel
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1933-1947 | | | Extent: | 14 letters | | | Abstract: | Hoebel's comments on "Queries" from "Anthropologist" and Lowie's response; funding for refinement of a methodology for the study of primitive law and training in jurisprudence; Hoebel asking for suggestions to fill in while on leave; publications; asking Lowie to write companion volume to his "Cultural Anthropology" (for students) and Lowie's response; Lowie's recommendation of Hoebel for Chairman of Department of Anthropology at University of Utah; personal | | | Source: | E. Adamson Hoebel Papers (Ms. Coll. 43) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| Author: | Lowie, Robert, 1883-1957 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, department of anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, 1908-1909, assistant curator, 1909-1913, associate curator, 1913-1921; associate professor, anthropology, University of California, 1917-1918, 1921-1925, professor, 1925-1950, emeritus professor, 1950-1957; editor, American Anthropologist, 1924-1933 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Robert Lowie and Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1914-1937 | | | Extent: | Approximately 27 letters | | | Abstract: | Village chiefs; fieldwork; Hopi; comments on Parson's paper on Aztecan and Pueblo parallels; comments on paper by Parsons and Ralph Beals; peers - Boas, Kroeber, etc.; publications; Kroeber Festschrift; ceremonialism; kinship; poem by David Friedrich Strauss | | | 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 | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Lowie, Robert, 1883-1957 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, department of anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, 1908-1909, assistant curator, 1909-1913, associate curator, 1913-1921; associate professor, anthropology, University of California, 1917-1918, 1921-1925, professor, 1925-1950, emeritus professor, 1950-1957; editor, American Anthropologist, 1924-1933 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Robert Lowie and Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 25 March 1936 - 19 February 1941 | | | Extent: | 17 letters + 13 leaves | | | Abstract: | 17 letters (1 to Lowie, 16 to Parsons) + thirteen manuscript leaves entitled "On Goldenweiser's Recent Trends in American Anthropology." Manuscript includes critique of Goldenweiser, Radin, and Sapir. Letters discuss social organization, culture, religion, ethnological theory, folklore, personal matters, publications, miscellaneous. | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (572 P25.1) | | | |
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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 | Folklore, mythology, religion | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| Author: | Lowie, Robert, 1883-1957 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, department of anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, 1908-1909, assistant curator, 1909-1913, associate curator, 1913-1921; associate professor, anthropology, University of California, 1917-1918, 1921-1925, professor, 1925-1950, emeritus professor, 1950-1957; editor, American Anthropologist, 1924-1933 | |
| | 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: | Lowie, Robert, 1883-1957 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, department of anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, 1908-1909, assistant curator, 1909-1913, associate curator, 1913-1921; associate professor, anthropology, University of California, 1917-1918, 1921-1925, professor, 1925-1950, emeritus professor, 1950-1957; editor, American Anthropologist, 1924-1933 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Robert Lowie and Henry Allen Moe
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 18 October 1941 - 19 August 1942 | | | Extent: | 4 letters | | | Abstract: | 4 letters (2 to Moe, 2 to Lowie). Latin American historians; research funding | | | Source: | Henry Allen Moe Papers (B M722) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| Author: | Lowie, Robert, 1883-1957 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, department of anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, 1908-1909, assistant curator, 1909-1913, associate curator, 1913-1921; associate professor, anthropology, University of California, 1917-1918, 1921-1925, professor, 1925-1950, emeritus professor, 1950-1957; editor, American Anthropologist, 1924-1933 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Robert Lowie and J. Alden Mason
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 9 October 1928 - 20 October 1947 | | | Extent: | 48 letters | | | Abstract: | 43 letters (26 to Mason, 17 to Lowie) + 5 letters to A. Kroeber, Ralph L. Beals, Gwen Block. Research funding; American Anthropologist; publications | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| Author: | Lowie, Robert, 1883-1957 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, department of anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, 1908-1909, assistant curator, 1909-1913, associate curator, 1913-1921; associate professor, anthropology, University of California, 1917-1918, 1921-1925, professor, 1925-1950, emeritus professor, 1950-1957; editor, American Anthropologist, 1924-1933 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Robert Lowie and William Fenton
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1949, 1953 | | | Extent: | 5 letters | | | Abstract: | Thanking for items; interested in definition of the joking relationship [Crow Indians]; Huxley lecture; oratory in Eastern Woodlands; letter praising Lowie and Lowie's thank you; publications; personal | | | Source: | William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) | | | |
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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 | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| Author: | Lowie, Robert, 1883-1957 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, department of anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, 1908-1909, assistant curator, 1909-1913, associate curator, 1913-1921; associate professor, anthropology, University of California, 1917-1918, 1921-1925, professor, 1925-1950, emeritus professor, 1950-1957; editor, American Anthropologist, 1924-1933 | |
| | Title: | Crow affixes
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | Language: | Crow | | | Dates: | n.d. | | | Extent: | 42 leaves | | | Abstract: | Arranged alphabetically by the Crow, apparently copied from texts and field notes | | | Source: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages (497.3 B63c, X3b.1) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Linguistics and philology | |
| Author: | Lowie, Robert, 1883-1957 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, department of anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, 1908-1909, assistant curator, 1909-1913, associate curator, 1913-1921; associate professor, anthropology, University of California, 1917-1918, 1921-1925, professor, 1925-1950, emeritus professor, 1950-1957; editor, American Anthropologist, 1924-1933 | |
| | Title: | Hopi and Zuni notebook and notes
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1915-1916, 1929, 1932 | | | Extent: | 2 folders | | | Abstract: |
none
| | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers, Series IV (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: | Lowie, Robert, 1883-1957 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, department of anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, 1908-1909, assistant curator, 1909-1913, associate curator, 1913-1921; associate professor, anthropology, University of California, 1917-1918, 1921-1925, professor, 1925-1950, emeritus professor, 1950-1957; editor, American Anthropologist, 1924-1933 | |
| | Title: | Huchnom creation myth
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1917 | | | Extent: | 1 item | | | Abstract: | Translation of the Huchnom creation myth | | | Source: | Harvey Pitkin Papers, Series II-C (Ms. Coll. 78) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | |
| Author: | Lubbock, John, 1834-1913 | | | | Member of Parliament, naturalist, author. Member of Roberts, Lubbock and Co., bankers, from 1849, later head of the firm; president, Institute of Bankers, 1879-1893; chairman, committee of London clearing bankers, and president, Central Association of Bankers, 1898-1913; M.P., 1870-1890; member of senate and vice-chancellor, London University, 1872-1880; F.R.S., member and officer of many scientific societies; popular and scientific writer on numerous topics, including prehistory and anthropology | |
| | Title: | Letter to Edward Tylor
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 16 August 1871 | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | Abstract: | Antiquity of man | | | Source: | Sir John Lubbock Papers (B L961) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | |
| Author: | Lubbock, John, 1834-1913 | | | | Member of Parliament, naturalist, author. Member of Roberts, Lubbock and Co., bankers, from 1849, later head of the firm; president, Institute of Bankers, 1879-1893; chairman, committee of London clearing bankers, and president, Central Association of Bankers, 1898-1913; M.P., 1870-1890; member of senate and vice-chancellor, London University, 1872-1880; F.R.S., member and officer of many scientific societies; popular and scientific writer on numerous topics, including prehistory and anthropology | |
| | Title: | Sir John Lubbock Papers
| | | Type: | Collection | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1856-1906 | | | Extent: | 0.25 linear feet (50 items) | | | Abstract: | Correspondents include A. W. Franks, J. Jeremiah, E. B. Tylor, and Sir William Creswicke Rawlinson. Prehistory; ethnology; archaeology, artifacts.; Ethnological Society of London. See also: extensive correspondence with Charles Darvin on a variety of subjects, in the Darwin collection (B D25) | | | Source: | Sir John Lubbock Papers (B L961) | | | |
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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 | |
| Author: | Lyell, Charles, 1797-1875 | | | | Geologist, natural historian. Practicing barrister, 1825-1827; devoted himself full-time to study of geology thereafter; F.R.S., 1826; Secretary, Geological Society, 1823-1826, president, 1834-1836, 1849-1850; president, BAAS, 1864-1865; member of numerous scientific societies and parliamentary commissions | |
| | Title: | Collections of letters from Various Scientists
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1837-1874 | | | Extent: | Approximately 350 letters | | | Abstract: | Includes letters to Lyell from George Busk, George Rolleston, J.F.W. Herschel, T.H. Huxley, R. Owen, A.R. Wallace. Evolution; antiquity of man; craniology; Neanderthal man; Hottentots; ethnology; geographical distribution of races | | | Source: | Charles Darwin Papers (B D25L) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| Author: | Lyell, Charles, 1797-1875 | | | | Geologist, natural historian. Practicing barrister, 1825-1827; devoted himself full-time to study of geology thereafter; F.R.S., 1826; Secretary, Geological Society, 1823-1826, president, 1834-1836, 1849-1850; president, BAAS, 1864-1865; member of numerous scientific societies and parliamentary commissions | |
| | Title: | Correspondence of Thomas Huxley, Charles Darwin, and Charles Lyell
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1856-1881 | | | Extent: | Approximately 22 letters | | | Abstract: | Letter numbers: 127, 181, 183, 184, 188, 192, 221, 222, 223, 227, 287, 291, 387, 400, 404, 465, 474, 477, 513, 578, 581, 606. See finding aid for more information regarding the content of the letters. | | | Source: | Charles Darwin Letters (B D25) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Lyell, Charles, 1797-1875 | | | | Geologist, natural historian. Practicing barrister, 1825-1827; devoted himself full-time to study of geology thereafter; F.R.S., 1826; Secretary, Geological Society, 1823-1826, president, 1834-1836, 1849-1850; president, BAAS, 1864-1865; member of numerous scientific societies and parliamentary commissions | |
| | Title: | Sir Charles Lyell Correspondence
| | | Type: | Collection | | | Format: | Microfilm | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1811-1882 | | | Extent: | 10 reels | | | Abstract: | Consists mostly of incoming correspondence from English and American scientists, with a small section of correspondence from Lyell. See also History of Science Film 1: "Papers on America in Collections of Royal Society of London" | | | Source: | Sir Charles Lyell Correspondence (History of Science, Film 4) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Lyell, Charles, 1797-1875 | | | | Geologist, natural historian. Practicing barrister, 1825-1827; devoted himself full-time to study of geology thereafter; F.R.S., 1826; Secretary, Geological Society, 1823-1826, president, 1834-1836, 1849-1850; president, BAAS, 1864-1865; member of numerous scientific societies and parliamentary commissions | |
| | Title: | Sir Charles Lyell Papers
| | | Type: | Collection | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1808-1874 | | | Extent: | Approximately 280 letters | | | Abstract: | Includes letters to John Evans, Milne Home, John Kempe, E.T. Stevan, S.W. Symonds, Albert Way, S.V. Wood. Prehistory; archaeology; antiquity of man; neolithic implements; Roman ruins; Stonehenge | | | Source: | Sir Charles Lyell Papers (B L981) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
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