| Author: | MacLaury, Robert E., 1944-2004 | | | | Anthropologist; language educator. Visiting professor University of Arizona, 1988-1990, University of Regina, 1993, George Washington University, 1993-1995; lecturer | |
| | Title: | Ayoquesco Zapotec: Ethnography, Phonology, and Lexicon
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | Language: | English | Zapotec | | | Dates: | 1970 | | | Extent: | 1 volume (230 leaves) | | | Abstract: | Masters thesis, University of the Americas | | | Source: | Robert E. MacLaury, Ayoquesco Zapotec (497.4 M22) | | | |
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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 | |
| Author: | Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942 | | | | Anthropologist. Lecturer, London School of Economics, 1912-1913; anthropological expedition to New Guinea, 1914-1920; reader, social anthropology, London School of Economics, 1924-1927, professor, 1927-1942; visiting professor, Yale University, 1939-1942 | |
| | 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: | Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942 | | | | Anthropologist. Lecturer, London School of Economics, 1912-1913; anthropological expedition to New Guinea, 1914-1920; reader, social anthropology, London School of Economics, 1924-1927, professor, 1927-1942; visiting professor, Yale University, 1939-1942 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Bronislaw Malinowski and Raymond Pearl
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 30 April 1935 - 17 October 1939 | | | Extent: | 16 letters | | | Abstract: | Personal; publications | | | Source: | Raymond Pearl Papers (B P312) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| Author: | Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942 | | | | Anthropologist. Lecturer, London School of Economics, 1912-1913; anthropological expedition to New Guinea, 1914-1920; reader, social anthropology, London School of Economics, 1924-1927, professor, 1927-1942; visiting professor, Yale University, 1939-1942 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Bronislaw Malinowski and William Fenton
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1933 | | | Extent: | 3 letters | | | Abstract: | Inviting Malinowski to speak at Yale's Anthropology Club and accommodations they can offer; Malinowski accepts; Malinowski's plans and suggestions for the talk and dates | | | Source: | William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | |
| Author: | Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942 | | | | Anthropologist. Lecturer, London School of Economics, 1912-1913; anthropological expedition to New Guinea, 1914-1920; reader, social anthropology, London School of Economics, 1924-1927, professor, 1927-1942; visiting professor, Yale University, 1939-1942 | |
| | Title: | List of publications
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | n.d. | | | Extent: | 2 leaves | | | Abstract: | A typed list of publications written by Malinowski | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942 | | | | Anthropologist. Lecturer, London School of Economics, 1912-1913; anthropological expedition to New Guinea, 1914-1920; reader, social anthropology, London School of Economics, 1924-1927, professor, 1927-1942; visiting professor, Yale University, 1939-1942 | |
| | Title: | Various manuscript materials of Bronislaw Malinowski
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | n.d. | | | Extent: | 1 box | | | Abstract: | Includes the December 1963 and December 1966 editions of "Current Anthropology: A World Journal of the Sciences of Man"; "The Listener", 7 Januaryary 1931, 14 Januaryary 1931, and pages from other dates in 1931; a number of copies of "Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942)" by Montagu; "Professor Bronislaw Malinowski: An Account of the Memorial Meeting held at the Royal Institution in London on July 13th 1942"; multiple letters, articles, writings, newspaper clippings | | | Source: | Ashley Montagu Papers (Ms. Coll. 109) | | | |
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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: | Marett, Robert R., 1866-1943 | | | | Anthropologist. Tutor in philosophy, Exeter College, Oxford University, 1893-1928, sub-rector, 1893-1898, rector, 1928-1943; reader in social anthropology, Oxford University, 1910-1936 | |
| | 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: | Marsh, Gordon H. (Rev. Priestmonk Innocent), b. circa 1915 | | | | Linguist, priest | |
| | Title: | Materials for a Study of the Iowa Indian Language
| | | Type: | Collection | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | Language: | English | Iowa | | | Dates: | Circa 1940s | | | Extent: | 1000 leaves of notes, reprints; lists; 4000 cards; 75 field notebooks; 11 letters; photographs | | | Abstract: | Correspondents include Robert Lowie, Ruth Benedict, H.W. Dorsey, Walter Dyk. Iowa language texts and translations; grammatical notes; parts of speech and notes on Iowa, Winnebago, Otoe, Ponca, and others; folk-tales in translation. | | | Source: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages (497.3 B63c, X4a.2) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Class Notes, John Alden Mason Papers
| | | Type: | Series | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1904-1916 | | | Extent: | 16 items | | | Abstract: | Notes on anthropology, archaeology, ethnology, linguistics, and phonetics taken while a student at the University of Pennsylvania | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384, Series V) | | | |
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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 | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Ales Hrdlicka and J. Alden Mason
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 20 November 1926 - 5 October 1939 | | | Extent: | 12 letters | | | Abstract: | 12 letters (6 to Mason, 6 to Hrdlicka). American Indian languages; social customs; publications. | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Linguistics and philology | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Alfred Hallowell and J. Alden Mason
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 8 April 1930 - 26 July 1950 | | | Extent: | 119 letters | | | Abstract: | 119 letters (74 to Mason, 45 to Hallowell). American Anthropologist; publications | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Alfred Kidder and J. Alden Mason
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 26 November 1928 - 4 February 1958 | | | Extent: | 160 letters | | | Abstract: | 160 letters (88 to Mason, 72 to Kidder). Central American archaeology; fieldwork; funding; publications; conferences | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Alfred Kroeber and J. Alden Mason
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 17 May 1945 - 21 January 1949 | | | Extent: | 158 letters | | | Abstract: | 142 letters (60 to Mason, 82 to Kroeber) + 16 letters to/from Carl Sauer, R. Lowie, A. Kidder, M. Herskovits, George Trager, Paul Landis, B.W. Aginsk. American prehistory; archaeology; linguistics; fieldwork; museum collections and exhibitions; material culture; research funds; personal; publications | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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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 | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Alfred Tozzer and J. Alden Mason
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 27 September 1927 - 19 October 1951 | | | Extent: | 75 letters | | | Abstract: | 75 letters (42 to Mason, 33 to Tozzer). Museum collections; expeditions; American Anthropological Association; conferences; publications | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | 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: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | 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: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Clark Wissler and J. Alden Mason
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 10 October 1927 - 21 May 1948 | | | Extent: | 53 letters | | | Abstract: | 49 letters (22 to Mason, 27 to Wissler) + 4 letters to/from Mary Wissler, Dorothy Donath, Bella Weitzner, A.C. Whitford. Field expeditions; museum collections, artifacts, exhibitions; Pennsylvania archaeology; American Anthropological Association; research funding; publications | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Clyde Kluckhohn and J. Alden Mason
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 8 June 1947 - August 1954 | | | Extent: | 38 letters | | | Abstract: | 30 letters (17 to Mason, 13 to Kluckhohn) + 8 letters to/from E Voegelin, Ruth Benedict, D. B. Stout, Dorothy Donath. American Anthropologist; publications. | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between David Bidney and J. Alden Mason
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 7 November 1945 - 17 June 1947 | | | Extent: | 17 letters | | | Abstract: | 15 letters (10 to Mason, 5 to Bedney) + 2 letters to Helen Hause, Irving Hallowell | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Earnest Hooton and J. Alden Mason
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 3 May 1928 - 31 Januaryary 1945 | | | Extent: | 4 letters | | | Abstract: | 4 letters (2 to Mason, 2 to Hooton). Age measurements; publications. | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Edmund Carpenter and J. Alden Mason
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 10 February 1949 - 8 December 1951 | | | Extent: | 9 letters | | | Abstract: | 9 letters (1 to Mason, 8 to Carpenter). Pennsylvania archaeology; Pennsylvania Archaeologist; publications | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Edward Gifford and J. Alden Mason
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 6 May 1927 - 8 March 1951 | | | Extent: | 23 letters | | | Abstract: | 21 letters (7 to Mason, 14 to Gifford) + 2 letters to/from Froelich G. Rainey and Linton Satterthwaite. Museum collections; archaeological excavations and collecting; verb lists; American Anthropologist. | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Edward Sapir and J. Alden Mason
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 18 June 1927 - 18 January 1939 | | | Extent: | 28 letters | | | Abstract: | 28 letters (10 to Mason, 18 to Sapir). Linguistics; research support; museums; fieldwork; conferences; publications; personal | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Ernestine Singer and J. Alden Mason
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 16 June 1934 - 10 October 1936 | | | Extent: | 4 letters | | | Abstract: | 4 letters (2 to Mason, 2 to Singer). Personal | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Frank G. Speck and J. Alden Mason
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 18 April 1928 - 19 February 1951 | | | Extent: | 38 letters | | | Abstract: | 38 letters (16 to Mason, 22 to Speck). American Anthropologist; material culture; publications | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Frans Olbrechts and J. Alden Mason
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 6 March 1937 - 10 March 1937 | | | Extent: | 2 letters | | | Abstract: | 2 letters (1 to Mason, 1 to Olbrechts). Personal | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Frederica De Laguna and J. Alden Mason
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 5 February 1930 - 22 April 1949 | | | Extent: | 67 letters | | | Abstract: | 62 letters (25 to Mason, 37 to De Laguna) + 5 letters to/from "Virginia", Mr. Jayne, Donald Dickson. American Anthropology; University of Pennsylvania Museum; Committee for International Cooperation in Anthropology; Philadelphia Anthropological Society; Franz Boas; course work at Columbia; museum work; material culture; archaeological fieldwork; professional positions; personal; publications. | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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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 | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Frederick Hodge and J. Alden Mason
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 18 November 1926 - 3 June 1953 | | | Extent: | 21 letters | | | Abstract: | 21 letters (10 to Mason, 11 to Hodge). South American archaeology; museum collections and exhibitions; obituary for Hewitt; personal. | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between George Murdock and J. Alden Mason
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 8 February 1946 - 12 September 1952 | | | Extent: | 27 letters | | | Abstract: | 25 letters (12 to Mason, 13 to Murdock) + 2 letters to Linton Sattherwaite and Weston LaBarre. Society for Applied Anthropology; Velikovsky; American Anthropologist; publications | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Gladys Reichard and J. Alden Mason
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 8 January 1925 - 7 September 1958 | | | Extent: | 17 letters | | | Abstract: | 17 letters (9 to Mason, 8 to Reichard). American Ethnological Society; conferences; publications | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Harry Hoijer and J. Alden Mason
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 4 April 1945 - 10 December 1948 | | | Extent: | 21 letters | | | Abstract: | 19 letters (10 to Mason, 9 to Hoijer) + 2 letters to Maurice Price and Sol Tax. Publications | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Harry Shapiro and J. Alden Mason
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 12 October 1928 - 20 May 1949 | | | Extent: | 30 letters | | | Abstract: | 30 letters (14 to Mason, 16 to Shapiro). American Association of Physical Anthropologists; American Anthopologist; fellowships; professional positions; research, support; skeletal remains; publications | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between J. Alden Mason and Charles Davenport
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 21 May 1928 - 11 July 1928 | | | Extent: | 3 letters | | | Abstract: | 3 letters (1 to Davenport, 2 to Mason). Data on comparative human longevity collected by William Farabee | | | Source: | Charles Benedict Davenport Papers (B D27) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between J. Alden Mason and Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 7 July 1939 - 10 Januaryary 1941 | | | Extent: | 5 letters | | | Abstract: | 5 letters (3 to Parsons, 2 to Mason). American Anthropological Association; SSRC; publications | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (572 P25.1) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | 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: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between John Swanton and J. Alden Mason
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 13 December 1940 - 7 June 1952 | | | Extent: | 20 letters | | | Abstract: | 20 letters (11 to Mason, 9 to Swanton). Pima and Papago linguistics; Haida totem poles; parapsychology; American Anthropologist; American Anthropological Association; personal | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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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: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Leslie Spier and J. Alden Mason
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 6 February 1928 - 2 April 1948 | | | Extent: | 83 letters | | | Abstract: | 83 letters (38 to Mason, 45 to Spier). American Anthropologist; Southwestern Journal of Anthropology; museum collections and expeditions; Mexican archaeology; professional positions; publications; personal | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Leslie White and J. Alden Mason
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 10 December 1940 - 9 January 1958 | | | Extent: | 30 letters | | | Abstract: | 27 letters (17 to Mason, 10 to White) + 3 letters to Dorothy Donath. American Anthropologist; publications | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Margaret Mead and J. Alden Mason
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 17 February 1930 - 25 July 1946 | | | Extent: | 15 letters | | | Abstract: | 15 letters (10 to Mason, 5 to Mead). Personal; publications | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Melville Herskovits and J. Alden Mason
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1945-1948 | | | Extent: | 1 folder | | | Abstract: | Publications in American Anthropologist; National Research Council | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Paul A. W. Wallace and J. Alden Mason
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 18 May 1949 - 30 May 1949 | | | Extent: | 3 letters | | | Abstract: | 2 letters (1 to Mason, 1 to Wallace). + 1 letter to Linton Satterthwaite. Pennsylvania Indian trails | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Paul Radin and J. Alden Mason
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 10 January 1941 - 22 March 1960 | | | Extent: | 4 letters | | | Abstract: | 3 letters (1 to Mason, 2 to Radin) + 1 letter to Doris Radin. Mexican and South American linguistics. Radin Festschrift | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Linguistics and philology | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Pliny Goddard and J. Alden Mason
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1 January 1926 - 13 June 1928 | | | Extent: | 25 letters | | | Abstract: | 25 letters (13 letters to Mason, 12 to Goddard). 23rd Congress of Americanists; museum collections; archaeology; publications. | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | 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: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Reo Fortune and J. Alden Mason
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 10 September 1946 - 18 October 1947 | | | Extent: | 5 letters | | | Abstract: | 5 letters (3 to Mason, 2 to Fortune). Publications | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | 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: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Robert Redfield and J. Alden Mason
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 31 October 1940 - 1 July 1942 | | | Extent: | 4 letters | | | Abstract: | 4 letters (2 to Mason, 2 to Redfield). Mexican codices; current ethnographic research in Guatemala | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | 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: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Sol Tax and J. Alden Mason
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 22 June 1945 - 28 January 1953 | | | Extent: | 28 letters | | | Abstract: | 28 letters (13 to Mason, 15 to Tax). American Anthropologist; American Anthropological Association; Microfilm Collection of Manuscripts on Middle American Cultural Anthropology; conferences; publications | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Sylvanus Morley and J. Alden Mason
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 20 October 1927 - 15 November 1948 | | | Extent: | 74 letters | | | Abstract: | 74 letters (29 to Mason, 45 to Morley). Maya archaeology, material culture; fieldwork; museum collections; publications | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between William Willis and J. Alden Mason
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 2 October 1952 - 8 October 1952 | | | Extent: | 2 letters | | | Abstract: | American Indian guns and medals | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Zelia Nuttall and J. Alden Mason
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 5 August 1931 - 25 January 1933 | | | Extent: | 4 letters | | | Abstract: | 4 letters (1 to Mason, 3 to Nuttall). Letters of introduction; Mexican archaeology; publications | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | John Alden Mason Papers
| | | Type: | Collection | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1904-1967 | | | Extent: | 26.75 linear feet (approximately 20,000 items) | | | Abstract: | Includes 21 linear feet of correspondence on personal and professional matters. Correspondents include F. Boas, M. Herskovits, R. Lowie, R. Linton, S. Tax, A. Kroeber, G. Murdock, E. Sapir, A. Hallowell, E. Hooton, M. Mead, G. Reichard, J. Swanton, A. Kidder, C. Kluckhohn, J. Steward, and others. Also, Latin American Institute; Papago linguistic notes, word lists; Papago linguistic card files; Pima ling. card files; miscellaneous notes on Tepecan ethnology, linguistics, religion; notebooks; Mexican photographs, 1913-1917 | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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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 | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Letter to John S. Jenks
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 10 December 1943 | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | Abstract: | Pre-Columbian gold artifacts | | | Source: | American Philosophical Society Archives (A.P.S. Archives) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | |
| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Letters to Alfred Hallowell
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1944, 1965 | | | Extent: | 2 letters | | | Abstract: | Requesting Hallowell to be one of four associate editors for "American Anthropologist" and brief explanation of duties; Mason asking for Hallowell's opinion on enclosed material (not included in file) | | | Source: | Alfred Irving Hallowell Papers (Ms. Coll. 26) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Letters to William Fenton
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1950 | | | Extent: | 2 letters | | | Abstract: | The Bulletin publication issues; anthropological work/fieldwork; personal. See also Philadelphia Anthropological Society and American Anthropologists | | | Source: | William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Northern Tepehuan language material
| | | Type: | Sound items | | | Format: | Recordings | | | Language: | Tepehuan | | | Dates: | [1951] | | | Extent: | 3 reels | | | Abstract: |
none
| | | Source: | Northern Tepehuan language material (Rec. 12) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Linguistics and philology | |
| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Southern Tepehuan language material
| | | Type: | Sound items | | | Format: | Recordings | | | Language: | Tepehuan | | | Dates: | [1948] | | | Extent: | 4 reels | | | Abstract: | Texts and songs recorded at Durango, Mexico | | | Source: | Southern Tepehuan language material (Rec. 11; Rec. 82: 7-9) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Linguistics and philology | |
| Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | Title: | Suisun vocabulary
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | Language: | Suisun | | | Dates: | 1916 | | | Extent: | 3 pages | | | Abstract: |
none
| | | Source: | Harvey Pitkin Papers, Series I-B (Ms. Coll. 78) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Linguistics and philology | |
| Author: | Mason, Otis, 1838-1908 | | | | Anthropologist, museum curator. Principal, Columbian Preparatory School, Washington, D.C., 1862-1884; curator, Division of Ethnology, U.S. National Museum, 1884-1902, head curator, Department of Anthropology, 1902-1908; editor, anthropological papers, Smithsonian Institute | |
| | 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: | Mathews, Robert Hamilton, 1841-1918 | | | | Australian anthropologist | |
| | Title: | Letters to the American Philosophical Society
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | May 1897 - 31 July 1898 | | | Extent: | 11 letters | | | Abstract: | 11 letters to APS, Harrison Allen, Frederick Fraley, I. Minis Hays. Publications. Australian rock carvings. APS Proceedings | | | Source: | American Philosophical Society Archives (A.P.S. Archives) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 | | | | Paleontologist. Assistant paleontologist, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1898, assistant curator, 1899-1901, associate curator, 1902-1910, curator, 1910-1922, curator-in-chief, earth sciences, 1922-1927; professor and head of department, paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, 1927-1930. | |
| | Title: | Letter to an unknown individual
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | n.d. | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | Abstract: | "Snake Creek artifacts" and age of man in North America | | | Source: | Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Misc. Mss.) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | |
| Author: | McGee, William J., 1853-1912 | | | | Anthropologist, geologist. Land surveying and justice-court practice, 1873-1875; invention and manufacture of agricultural implements, 1874-1876; geological and topographical survey of northeastern Iowa, 1877-1881; U.S. Geological Survey, 1883-1893; ethnologist in charge, Bureau of American Ethnology, 1893-1903; chief, department of anthropology, St. Louis Exposition, 1904; director, St. Louis Public Museum, 1905-1907; U.S. commissioner, International Archaeological and Ethnological Commission, 1902-1912, Inland Waterways Commission, 1907-1912 | |
| | 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: | Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, ethnology, American Museum of Natural History, 1926-1942, associate curator, 1942-1964, curator, 1964-1969, emeritus curator, 1969-1978, director, studies in contemporary culture, 1951-1953; adjunct professor, anthropology, Columbia University, 1954-1978 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Margaret Mead and Alfred Hallowell
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1941-1966 | | | Extent: | 11 letters | | | Abstract: | Requesting publications; updating chapter in manual of Child Psychology and asking for information to include; Mead's discussion of the Inkeles and Levinsohn paper - personality; Ted Schwartz's thesis comments; meeting reminder; asking Hallowell to update Bear thesis for the Meeting of AAA on "Man-Animal Linked Cultural Sub-Systems." See also: Wishner, Julius | | | 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 | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Folklore, mythology, religion | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, ethnology, American Museum of Natural History, 1926-1942, associate curator, 1942-1964, curator, 1964-1969, emeritus curator, 1969-1978, director, studies in contemporary culture, 1951-1953; adjunct professor, anthropology, Columbia University, 1954-1978 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Margaret Mead and Anthony F. C. Wallace
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1952-1962 | | | Extent: | 7 letters | | | Abstract: | Request for reprints; meetings; comments on "New Lives for Old" - revitalization; nativistic cults - student essay discussion | | | Source: | Wallace Family Papers, Subcollection I, Anthony F. C. Wallace Papers (Ms. Coll. 64) | | | |
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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 | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, ethnology, American Museum of Natural History, 1926-1942, associate curator, 1942-1964, curator, 1964-1969, emeritus curator, 1969-1978, director, studies in contemporary culture, 1951-1953; adjunct professor, anthropology, Columbia University, 1954-1978 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Margaret Mead and Dell Hymes
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1977-1983 | | | Extent: | 22 items | | | Abstract: | Invitation to Mead to speak at symposium on anthropology and education; review of "Letters from the Field"; publications; education; statement of Hymes adopted by Council, 1978; review by Derek Freeman of Mead's "Margaret Mead and Samoa", 1983; article "Earlier Criticisms Surface in Reactions to Book on Dr. Mead" by John Noble Wilford, 1983; Mead controversy; Articles (circa 1983): "Coming of Age in Anthropology: Doubts on Samoa", New York Times; "Of Margaret Mead, Her Critics and Unhelpful Sensationalism" by Mary Catherine Bateson, New York Times; "In Search of the Real Samoa" by Sharon Begley, John Carey, and Carl Robinson, Newsweek; "Mead's First Husband Comes to Her Defense" by L.S. Cressman, New York Times; "Adam und die Detektive" by Von Dieter E. Zimmer; "Kicking a Lady when She's Dead" by Ellen Goodman; "Sex and the Single Samoan", Daily Mail [?]; For Natural History magazine, Review of D. Freeman "Margaret Mead..." by David M Schneider, University of Chicago; "A Marguerite for Margaret" by L.S. Cressman, in "Columbia" | | | Source: | Dell H. Hymes Papers (Ms. Coll. 55) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, ethnology, American Museum of Natural History, 1926-1942, associate curator, 1942-1964, curator, 1964-1969, emeritus curator, 1969-1978, director, studies in contemporary culture, 1951-1953; adjunct professor, anthropology, Columbia University, 1954-1978 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Margaret Mead and E. Adamson Hoebel
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1972-1973 | | | Extent: | 3 letters | | | Abstract: | Hoebel unable to attend meetings; Mead comments, suggestions, and concerns to Robert McMillan regarding dissertation; questions to Mead (Bunzel, Hoebel, and Montagu) from McMillan; personal | | | Source: | E. Adamson Hoebel Papers (Ms. Coll. 43) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Personal matters | |
| Author: | Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, ethnology, American Museum of Natural History, 1926-1942, associate curator, 1942-1964, curator, 1964-1969, emeritus curator, 1969-1978, director, studies in contemporary culture, 1951-1953; adjunct professor, anthropology, Columbia University, 1954-1978 | |
| | 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: | Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, ethnology, American Museum of Natural History, 1926-1942, associate curator, 1942-1964, curator, 1964-1969, emeritus curator, 1969-1978, director, studies in contemporary culture, 1951-1953; adjunct professor, anthropology, Columbia University, 1954-1978 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Margaret Mead and J. Alden Mason
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 17 February 1930 - 25 July 1946 | | | Extent: | 15 letters | | | Abstract: | 15 letters (10 to Mason, 5 to Mead). Personal; publications | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| Author: | Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, ethnology, American Museum of Natural History, 1926-1942, associate curator, 1942-1964, curator, 1964-1969, emeritus curator, 1969-1978, director, studies in contemporary culture, 1951-1953; adjunct professor, anthropology, Columbia University, 1954-1978 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Margaret Mead and William Fenton
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1968-1977 | | | Extent: | 4 letters | | | Abstract: | AAA; Mead's books; informing Fenton of the meeting of the Advisory Committee to the US Delegation to the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnographical Sciences at the AAA meeting in Toronto, 1972; asking about leads to gather photographs of Iroquois retired steel workers for book with Ken Heyman - and Fenton's response | | | Source: | William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, ethnology, American Museum of Natural History, 1926-1942, associate curator, 1942-1964, curator, 1964-1969, emeritus curator, 1969-1978, director, studies in contemporary culture, 1951-1953; adjunct professor, anthropology, Columbia University, 1954-1978 | |
| | Title: | Letter to Leonard Carmichael
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 20 September 1971 | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | Abstract: | Personal | | | Source: | Leonard Carmichael Papers (B C212) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Personal matters | |
| Author: | Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, ethnology, American Museum of Natural History, 1926-1942, associate curator, 1942-1964, curator, 1964-1969, emeritus curator, 1969-1978, director, studies in contemporary culture, 1951-1953; adjunct professor, anthropology, Columbia University, 1954-1978 | |
| | Title: | Letter to Warren S. McCulloch
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 27 February 1946 | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | Abstract: | McCulloch manuscript on "circularity;" Gregory Bateson | | | Source: | Warren S. McCulloch Papers (B M139) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Personal matters | |
| Author: | Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, ethnology, American Museum of Natural History, 1926-1942, associate curator, 1942-1964, curator, 1964-1969, emeritus curator, 1969-1978, director, studies in contemporary culture, 1951-1953; adjunct professor, anthropology, Columbia University, 1954-1978 | |
| | Title: | Letters to Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1939 | | | Extent: | 2 letters | | | Abstract: | Publication "Milta"; personal | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (572 P25) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| Author: | Mitchill, Samuel Latham, 1764-1831 | | | | Physician, natural historian, U.S. Senator. Professor, natural history, chemistry, agriculture, Columbia College, 1793-1801, of botany, 1793-1795; U.S. Representative, 1801-1803, 1810-1813; U.S. Senator, 1804-1809; professor, chemistry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, 1807-1808, professor, natural history, 1808-1820, professor, botany and materia medica, 1820-1826; vice president, Rutgers Medical College, 1826-1830 | |
| | Title: | Letter to Peter S. Du Ponceau
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 24 February 1819 | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | Abstract: | American Indian languages and origins | | | Source: | American Philosophical Society Archives (A.P.S. Archives) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Linguistics and philology | |
| Author: | Moe, Henry Allen, 1894-1975 | | | | Foundation executive. Editorial staff, St. Paul Dispatch and Pioneer Press, 1916-1917; Hulme lecturer in law, Oxford University, 1923-1924; law lecturer, Columbia University, 1927-1929; first secretary, secretary general, and president, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1925-1963; chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1965-1966 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Alfred Kroeber and Henry Allen Moe
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1941-1950 | | | Extent: | 17 file envelopes | | | Abstract: | Kroeber was frequently in contact with Moe regarding Guggenheim Foundation support of linguistic, ethnological, archaeological, and human biological research in South and Central America. The Moe papers contain extensive reports by Kroeber on Guggenheim projects and his critique of the scientific and personal character of fellowship applicants. This is an interesting source for study of Kroeber's opinions concerning the work of his scientific peers in the 1940s. | | | Source: | Henry Allen Moe Papers (B M722) | | | |
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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 | 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 | |
| Author: | Moe, Henry Allen, 1894-1975 | | | | Foundation executive. Editorial staff, St. Paul Dispatch and Pioneer Press, 1916-1917; Hulme lecturer in law, Oxford University, 1923-1924; law lecturer, Columbia University, 1927-1929; first secretary, secretary general, and president, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1925-1963; chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1965-1966 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Clark Wissler and Henry Allen Moe
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 22 November 1939 - 24 November 1939 | | | Extent: | 2 letters | | | Abstract: | Century Club and S.G. Morley | | | Source: | Henry Allen Moe Papers (B M722) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Moe, Henry Allen, 1894-1975 | | | | Foundation executive. Editorial staff, St. Paul Dispatch and Pioneer Press, 1916-1917; Hulme lecturer in law, Oxford University, 1923-1924; law lecturer, Columbia University, 1927-1929; first secretary, secretary general, and president, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1925-1963; chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1965-1966 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Gordon Marsh and Henry Allen Moe
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 24 December 1937 - 8 January 1938 | | | Extent: | 2 letters | | | Abstract: | University life at Oxford | | | Source: | Henry Allen Moe Papers (B M722) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Linguistics and philology | Personal matters | |
| Author: | Moe, Henry Allen, 1894-1975 | | | | Foundation executive. Editorial staff, St. Paul Dispatch and Pioneer Press, 1916-1917; Hulme lecturer in law, Oxford University, 1923-1924; law lecturer, Columbia University, 1927-1929; first secretary, secretary general, and president, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1925-1963; chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1965-1966 | |
| | 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: | Moe, Henry Allen, 1894-1975 | | | | Foundation executive. Editorial staff, St. Paul Dispatch and Pioneer Press, 1916-1917; Hulme lecturer in law, Oxford University, 1923-1924; law lecturer, Columbia University, 1927-1929; first secretary, secretary general, and president, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1925-1963; chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1965-1966 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Robert Redfield and Henry Allen Moe
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 29 July 1942 - 8 January 1943 | | | Extent: | 7 letters | | | Abstract: | 5 letters (2 to Moe, 3 to Redfield) + 2 letters to/from H. C. Daines and German Arciniegas; Guggenheim Foundation support for Arciniegas | | | Source: | Henry Allen Moe Papers (B M722) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Financial support for research and publication | |
| Author: | Moe, Henry Allen, 1894-1975 | | | | Foundation executive. Editorial staff, St. Paul Dispatch and Pioneer Press, 1916-1917; Hulme lecturer in law, Oxford University, 1923-1924; law lecturer, Columbia University, 1927-1929; first secretary, secretary general, and president, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1925-1963; chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1965-1966 | |
| | Title: | Henry Allen Moe Papers
| | | Type: | Collection | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1920-1975 | | | Extent: | 170 linear feet (approximately 175,000 items) | | | Abstract: | There is extensive correspondence in the Moe papers detailing Guggenheim Foundation support of scholarship and academic exchange. Of particular interest are records of the Latin America Fund, which supported research in Latin American linguistics, ethnography, and archaeology. Correspondents include Franz Boas, Robert Lowie, G.P. Murdock, Robert Redfield, Clark Wissler, The Archaeological Institute of America, the Richard Leakey Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation Program in Linguistics and Language Study | | | Source: | Henry Allen Moe Papers (B M722) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Financial support for research and publication | |
| Author: | Montagu, Ashley, 1905-1999 | | | | Physical anthropologist, social biologist. Research associate, British Museum of Natural History, 1926-1927; curator, physical anthropologist, Wellcome History of Medicine Museum, 1929-1930; assistant professor, anatomy, New York University, 1931-1938; associate professor, anatomy, Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, 1938-1949; chairman, department of anthropology, Rutgers University, 1949-1955; senior lecturer, VA post-graduate training program, 1946-; lecturer, New School for Social Research, 1931, 1948-1959; lecturer, Princeton University, 1978-1982 | |
| | Title: | Ashley Montagu Papers
| | | Type: | Collection | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | Circa 1930-1999 | | | Extent: | Approximately 70 linear feet | | | Abstract: | The collection documents nearly the entire career of Ashley Montagu from approximately 1937 until his death in 1999, with extensive correspondence, research notes, and subject files relating to Montagu's diverse interests. The collection includes significant correspondence with colleagues ranging from Theodosius Dobzhansky and Melville Herskovits to Clyde Kluckhohn, Marshall McLuhan, and Pitirim Sorokin; Tsuyoshi Amemiya, Leonard Lieberman, Floyd Matson, Lewis Mumford, Rutgers, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone and others. Correspondents also include letters to and from publishers as well as correspondences regarding conferences, speaking engagements, TV appearances and includes agendas, travel itineraries, and conference flyers and brochures. Also included are files relating to different subjects. Topics, sorted alphabetically by name, include individuals like Mead and Boas as well as anthropology, creationism, Piltdown man, race, and swearing. Montagu's papers also include manuscripts, published works, and lectures which contain "Coming into Being Among Australian Aborigines", "The Elephant Man", "The Anatomy of Swearing," etc. Finally, photographs, video, audio tapes biographical, autobiographical, family material as well as miscellaneous materials (correspondence, newspaper clippings, etc.) are part of this collection | | | Source: | Ashley Montagu Papers (Ms. Coll. 109) | | | |
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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 | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Montagu, Ashley, 1905-1999 | | | | Physical anthropologist, social biologist. Research associate, British Museum of Natural History, 1926-1927; curator, physical anthropologist, Wellcome History of Medicine Museum, 1929-1930; assistant professor, anatomy, New York University, 1931-1938; associate professor, anatomy, Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, 1938-1949; chairman, department of anthropology, Rutgers University, 1949-1955; senior lecturer, VA post-graduate training program, 1946-; lecturer, New School for Social Research, 1931, 1948-1959; lecturer, Princeton University, 1978-1982 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Alfred Hallowell and Ashley Montagu
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1937-1965 | | | Extent: | 11 letters | | | Abstract: | Thoughts on "Coming into Being Among the Australian Aborigines"; publications; elected into Natural Academy of Sciences | | | Source: | Ashley Montagu Papers (Ms. Coll. 109) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Montagu, Ashley, 1905-1999 | | | | Physical anthropologist, social biologist. Research associate, British Museum of Natural History, 1926-1927; curator, physical anthropologist, Wellcome History of Medicine Museum, 1929-1930; assistant professor, anatomy, New York University, 1931-1938; associate professor, anatomy, Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, 1938-1949; chairman, department of anthropology, Rutgers University, 1949-1955; senior lecturer, VA post-graduate training program, 1946-; lecturer, New School for Social Research, 1931, 1948-1959; lecturer, Princeton University, 1978-1982 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Ashley Montagu and Anthony F. C. Wallace
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1954, 1971 | | | Extent: | 4 letters | | | Abstract: | Awards program. Compliment's on article in "Explorations" journal; reprints; request for mailing list; Wallace awarded for book "The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca" - Anisfield-Wolf Award | | | Source: | Wallace Family Papers, Subcollection I, Anthony F. C. Wallace Papers (Ms. Coll. 64) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Montagu, Ashley, 1905-1999 | | | | Physical anthropologist, social biologist. Research associate, British Museum of Natural History, 1926-1927; curator, physical anthropologist, Wellcome History of Medicine Museum, 1929-1930; assistant professor, anatomy, New York University, 1931-1938; associate professor, anatomy, Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, 1938-1949; chairman, department of anthropology, Rutgers University, 1949-1955; senior lecturer, VA post-graduate training program, 1946-; lecturer, New School for Social Research, 1931, 1948-1959; lecturer, Princeton University, 1978-1982 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Ashley Montagu and Leonard Carmichael
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 16 August 1960 - 3 December 1960 | | | Extent: | 5 letters | | | Abstract: | 5 letters (2 to Montagu, 3 to Carmichael). Publications; prenatal influences on behavior | | | Source: | Leonard Carmichael Papers (B C212) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Montagu, Ashley, 1905-1999 | | | | Physical anthropologist, social biologist. Research associate, British Museum of Natural History, 1926-1927; curator, physical anthropologist, Wellcome History of Medicine Museum, 1929-1930; assistant professor, anatomy, New York University, 1931-1938; associate professor, anatomy, Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, 1938-1949; chairman, department of anthropology, Rutgers University, 1949-1955; senior lecturer, VA post-graduate training program, 1946-; lecturer, New School for Social Research, 1931, 1948-1959; lecturer, Princeton University, 1978-1982 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Ashley Montagu and Warren S. McCulloch
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 9 February 1959 - 10 March 1959 | | | Extent: | 5 letters | | | Abstract: | 5 letters (3 to McCulloch, 2 to Montagu). Freud; publications | | | Source: | Warren S, McCulloch Papers (B M139) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Montagu, Ashley, 1905-1999 | | | | Physical anthropologist, social biologist. Research associate, British Museum of Natural History, 1926-1927; curator, physical anthropologist, Wellcome History of Medicine Museum, 1929-1930; assistant professor, anatomy, New York University, 1931-1938; associate professor, anatomy, Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, 1938-1949; chairman, department of anthropology, Rutgers University, 1949-1955; senior lecturer, VA post-graduate training program, 1946-; lecturer, New School for Social Research, 1931, 1948-1959; lecturer, Princeton University, 1978-1982 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Clyde Kluckhohn and Ashley Montagu
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1942-1946 | | | Extent: | 24 letters | | | Abstract: | Discussion on publication reviews; guest lecturer at Harvard University; 'for your information' regarding the seminary: spring term 1945 - its focus is on the theory of relationship between institutional structure and culture and personality or character structure, Department of Sociology, Harvard University; suggestions for courses on socialization, race and culture, social biology, etc.; recommendation for Montagu for position at University of Maryland; anthropological discussion - physical and cultural; "Selection and the Mental Characters of Mankind" | | | Source: | Ashley Montagu Papers (Ms. Coll. 109) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | 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: | Montagu, Ashley, 1905-1999 | | | | Physical anthropologist, social biologist. Research associate, British Museum of Natural History, 1926-1927; curator, physical anthropologist, Wellcome History of Medicine Museum, 1929-1930; assistant professor, anatomy, New York University, 1931-1938; associate professor, anatomy, Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, 1938-1949; chairman, department of anthropology, Rutgers University, 1949-1955; senior lecturer, VA post-graduate training program, 1946-; lecturer, New School for Social Research, 1931, 1948-1959; lecturer, Princeton University, 1978-1982 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Earnest Hooton and Ashley Montagu
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1936-1950 | | | Extent: | 19 letters + notes | | | Abstract: | to Montagu's review of Hooton's book; employment positions at various Universities; location of meeting of the Physical Anthropologists; denying to write an endorsement for "How to Find Happiness and Keep It"; remarks on Tozzer; speaking engagement on a broadcast; A.A.P.A planning | | | Source: | Ashley Montagu Papers (Ms. Coll. 109) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| Author: | Montagu, Ashley, 1905-1999 | | | | Physical anthropologist, social biologist. Research associate, British Museum of Natural History, 1926-1927; curator, physical anthropologist, Wellcome History of Medicine Museum, 1929-1930; assistant professor, anatomy, New York University, 1931-1938; associate professor, anatomy, Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, 1938-1949; chairman, department of anthropology, Rutgers University, 1949-1955; senior lecturer, VA post-graduate training program, 1946-; lecturer, New School for Social Research, 1931, 1948-1959; lecturer, Princeton University, 1978-1982 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Edmund Carpenter and Ashley Montagu
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1955-1993 | | | Extent: | 19 letters and enclosure | | | Abstract: | Social and culture anthropology; fieldwork; ethnography of Carpenter of Eskimos; Carpenter's writings on Art of the Aivilik; employment of Carpenter editing archives of Carl Schuster; publishing; "Explorations" publication; education; peers; Carpenter's retelling of articles; racism; film production; personal | | | Source: | Ashley Montagu Papers (Ms. Coll. 109) | | | |
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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 | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| Author: | Montagu, Ashley, 1905-1999 | | | | Physical anthropologist, social biologist. Research associate, British Museum of Natural History, 1926-1927; curator, physical anthropologist, Wellcome History of Medicine Museum, 1929-1930; assistant professor, anatomy, New York University, 1931-1938; associate professor, anatomy, Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, 1938-1949; chairman, department of anthropology, Rutgers University, 1949-1955; senior lecturer, VA post-graduate training program, 1946-; lecturer, New School for Social Research, 1931, 1948-1959; lecturer, Princeton University, 1978-1982 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between John Swanton and Ashley Montagu
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1953, 1957 | | | Extent: | 6 letters | | | Abstract: | Evolution; discussion on pamphlet "Superstition - but Whose?"; comments on "The Direction of Human Development"; psychology; ESP and "Mental Radio" by Upton Sinclair | | | Source: | Ashley Montagu Papers (Ms. Coll. 109) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Montagu, Ashley, 1905-1999 | | | | Physical anthropologist, social biologist. Research associate, British Museum of Natural History, 1926-1927; curator, physical anthropologist, Wellcome History of Medicine Museum, 1929-1930; assistant professor, anatomy, New York University, 1931-1938; associate professor, anatomy, Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, 1938-1949; chairman, department of anthropology, Rutgers University, 1949-1955; senior lecturer, VA post-graduate training program, 1946-; lecturer, New School for Social Research, 1931, 1948-1959; lecturer, Princeton University, 1978-1982 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Leslie White and Ashley Montagu
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1959, 1964 | | | Extent: | 5 letters | | | Abstract: | Sent "The Concept of Culture" and "The Concept of the Evolution in Cultural Anthropology" to Montagu; personal | | | Source: | Ashley Montagu Papers (Ms. Coll. 109) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| Author: | Montagu, Ashley, 1905-1999 | | | | Physical anthropologist, social biologist. Research associate, British Museum of Natural History, 1926-1927; curator, physical anthropologist, Wellcome History of Medicine Museum, 1929-1930; assistant professor, anatomy, New York University, 1931-1938; associate professor, anatomy, Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, 1938-1949; chairman, department of anthropology, Rutgers University, 1949-1955; senior lecturer, VA post-graduate training program, 1946-; lecturer, New School for Social Research, 1931, 1948-1959; lecturer, Princeton University, 1978-1982 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Otto Klineberg and Ashley Montagu
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1950, 1990 | | | Extent: | 4 letters | | | Abstract: | Montagu asking Klineberg for material regarding race to include in "Source Book of Readings on Race" which Montagu was editing, Klineberg suggested including the chapter on "Racial Psychology" from "The Science of Man in the World Crisis"; personal | | | Source: | Ashley Montagu Papers (Ms. Coll. 109) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| Author: | Montagu, Ashley, 1905-1999 | | | | Physical anthropologist, social biologist. Research associate, British Museum of Natural History, 1926-1927; curator, physical anthropologist, Wellcome History of Medicine Museum, 1929-1930; assistant professor, anatomy, New York University, 1931-1938; associate professor, anatomy, Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, 1938-1949; chairman, department of anthropology, Rutgers University, 1949-1955; senior lecturer, VA post-graduate training program, 1946-; lecturer, New School for Social Research, 1931, 1948-1959; lecturer, Princeton University, 1978-1982 | |
| | Title: | Letter to E. Adamson Hoebel
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1967 | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | Abstract: | Reference for quote; compliments on Hoebel's "Anthropology"; publications | | | Source: | E. Adamson Hoebel Papers (Ms. Coll. 43) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Montagu, Ashley, 1905-1999 | | | | Physical anthropologist, social biologist. Research associate, British Museum of Natural History, 1926-1927; curator, physical anthropologist, Wellcome History of Medicine Museum, 1929-1930; assistant professor, anatomy, New York University, 1931-1938; associate professor, anatomy, Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, 1938-1949; chairman, department of anthropology, Rutgers University, 1949-1955; senior lecturer, VA post-graduate training program, 1946-; lecturer, New School for Social Research, 1931, 1948-1959; lecturer, Princeton University, 1978-1982 | |
| | Title: | Letters to Theodosius Dobzhansky
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 29 January 1962 - 28 June 1974 | | | Extent: | 5 letters | | | Abstract: | Race and IQ; Leslie Dunn; publications | | | Source: | Theodosius Dobzhansky Papers (B D65) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881 | | | | Ethnologist, lawyer. Practiced law in Rochester, New York, from 1851; New York State Assembly, 1861-1868, State Senate, 1868-1869; active in the study of American ethnology, from the early 1840s; wrote on the history and customs of the American Indians and on social evolution; organizer and first chairman of Section H of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1875 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Lewis Morgan and Ely Samuel Parker
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1844-1853 | | | Extent: | 14 letters | | | Abstract: | Correspondence between Morgan and Parker as well as between Morgan and Caroline Parker and others. Ely Parker became a primary consultant to Morgan in his work. Subjects include Grand Order of the Iroquois; education; Indian names and definitions; Grand Confederacy of Iroquois; request of Parker to make full report of Council and it's speeches and ceremonies; correspondent employment for Parker; payment of articles the Parker family was making and collecting for Morgan; publication "League of the Iroquois"; personal | | | Source: | Ely Samuel Parker Papers (497.3 P223) | | | |
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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 | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| Author: | Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881 | | | | Ethnologist, lawyer. Practiced law in Rochester, New York, from 1851; New York State Assembly, 1861-1868, State Senate, 1868-1869; active in the study of American ethnology, from the early 1840s; wrote on the history and customs of the American Indians and on social evolution; organizer and first chairman of Section H of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1875 | |
| | Title: | Manuscript journals and Record of Indian Letters
| | | Type: | Collection | | | Format: | Microfilm | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | Circa 1845-1876 | | | Extent: | 2 reels | | | Abstract: | Film from originals in Rochester University Library. 6 volumes of memoranda on Indian ceremonies, vocabularies, expeditions to visit Indian tribes, description of Indian life, miscellaneous notes; 2 volumes of correspondence regarding laws of descent and systems or relationship among the American Indians | | | Source: | Manuscript journals and Record of Indian Letters (Film 582) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Linguistics and philology | |
| Author: | Morley, Sylvanus Griswold, 1883-1948 | | | | Archaeologist. Research fellow, Central American archaeology, Harvard University, 1907-1908; fieldwork, School of American Archaeology, 1909-1914; research associate, Carnegie Institution, 1915-1918, in charge of archaeological expeditions to Central America, 1918-1924; director, Chichen Itza project, 1924-1940 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Sylvanus Morley and Charles Davenport
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 20 March 1933 - 29 June 1933 | | | Extent: | 8 letters | | | Abstract: | 8 letters (4 to Davenport, 4 to Morley). Year span between generations; Maya chronology; public addresses | | | Source: | Charles Benedict Davenport Papers (B D27) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Morley, Sylvanus Griswold, 1883-1948 | | | | Archaeologist. Research fellow, Central American archaeology, Harvard University, 1907-1908; fieldwork, School of American Archaeology, 1909-1914; research associate, Carnegie Institution, 1915-1918, in charge of archaeological expeditions to Central America, 1918-1924; director, Chichen Itza project, 1924-1940 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Sylvanus Morley and J. Alden Mason
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 20 October 1927 - 15 November 1948 | | | Extent: | 74 letters | | | Abstract: | 74 letters (29 to Mason, 45 to Morley). Maya archaeology, material culture; fieldwork; museum collections; publications | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Morley, Sylvanus Griswold, 1883-1948 | | | | Archaeologist. Research fellow, Central American archaeology, Harvard University, 1907-1908; fieldwork, School of American Archaeology, 1909-1914; research associate, Carnegie Institution, 1915-1918, in charge of archaeological expeditions to Central America, 1918-1924; director, Chichen Itza project, 1924-1940 | |
| | Title: | Sylvanus Griswold Morley Diaries
| | | Type: | Collection | | | Format: | Diaries | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1905-1947 | | | Extent: | 39 volumes | | | Abstract: | Typed. Maya and Pecos archaeology; fieldwork; Maya inscriptions; Carnegie Foundation; personal. Beginning with his college life at Harvard, Morley's diaries continue through his earliest travels in Central America, with information on the study of Mayan hieroglyphs, publications, the study of Central American ruins, and the manners and customs of the jungle Indians. Five volumes are devoted to four separate archaeological expeditions; Copan expedition, 1937; Uxmal expedition, 1941-1942; Central American expedition, 1944 (2 volumes); and Guatemala and Honduras expedition, 1947 | | | Source: | Sylvanus Griswold Morley Diaries (B M828) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Linguistics and philology | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| Author: | Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851 | | | | Physician, naturalist. Practicing physician, Philadelphia, 1826-1851; professor of anatomy, Pennsylvania Medical College, 1839-1843; member of the American Philosophical Society and the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences; researcher and writer in paleontology, geology, zoology, medicine, and physical anthropology. Morton, a noted polygenist, wrote on craniology and human hybridity | |
| | Title: | Craniological sketches
| | | Type: | Still Images | | | Format: | Sketches | | | Dates: | Circa 1838 | | | Extent: | 11 items | | | Abstract: | Sketches of human skeletons, primarily American Indians | | | Source: | Samuel George Morton Papers (B M843) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| Author: | Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851 | | | | Physician, naturalist. Practicing physician, Philadelphia, 1826-1851; professor of anatomy, Pennsylvania Medical College, 1839-1843; member of the American Philosophical Society and the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences; researcher and writer in paleontology, geology, zoology, medicine, and physical anthropology. Morton, a noted polygenist, wrote on craniology and human hybridity | |
| | Title: | Letter to A. D. Bache
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 5 May 1843 | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | Abstract: | Egyptian ethnography | | | Source: | American Philosophical Society Archives (A.P.S. Archives) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | |
| Author: | Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851 | | | | Physician, naturalist. Practicing physician, Philadelphia, 1826-1851; professor of anatomy, Pennsylvania Medical College, 1839-1843; member of the American Philosophical Society and the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences; researcher and writer in paleontology, geology, zoology, medicine, and physical anthropology. Morton, a noted polygenist, wrote on craniology and human hybridity | |
| | Title: | Samuel George Morton Letters
| | | Type: | Collection | | | Format: | Microfilm | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | Circa 1838-1844 | | | Extent: | 1 reel | | | Abstract: | 216 letters and assorted manuscripts, including memoranda, invitations, broadsides, etc. Correspondents include J. C. Prichard, John Bachman, George Gliddon, S. S. Haldeman, Thomas Hodgkin. Craniology; human hybridity; the origin of human races. This microfilm has been incoporated into the Samuel George Morton Papers (call #: B M843) as Series IV | | | Source: | Samuel George Morton Letters (Film 1413) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| Author: | Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851 | | | | Physician, naturalist. Practicing physician, Philadelphia, 1826-1851; professor of anatomy, Pennsylvania Medical College, 1839-1843; member of the American Philosophical Society and the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences; researcher and writer in paleontology, geology, zoology, medicine, and physical anthropology. Morton, a noted polygenist, wrote on craniology and human hybridity | |
| | Title: | Samuel George Morton Papers
| | | Type: | Collection | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1819-1850 | | | Extent: | 1.75 linear feet (approximately 600 items) | | | Abstract: | Correspondents include Thomas Hodgkin, Benjamin Silliman, John Bachman, George Combe, J.C. Prichard, George Gliddon. Race; craniology; human hybridity | | | Source: | Samuel George Morton Papers (B M843) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| Author: | Murdock, George Peter, 1897-1985 | | | | Anthropologist. Instructor, sociology, University of Maryland, 1925-1927; assistant professor, Yale, 1928-1934, associate professor, ethnology, 1934-1939, professor, anthropology, 1939-1960, director, cross-cultural survey, Institute of Human Relations, 1937-1946; Mellon professor, anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, 1960-1971, emeritus professor, 1971-1985 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between George Murdock and Alfred Hallowell
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1941-1955 | | | Extent: | 13 letters | | | Abstract: | Thanks for reprints of articles; publishing; meetings; students and peers; congratulations on Murdock's "Social Structures"; brief comments on publications | | | Source: | Alfred Irving Hallowell Papers (Ms. Coll. 26) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Murdock, George Peter, 1897-1985 | | | | Anthropologist. Instructor, sociology, University of Maryland, 1925-1927; assistant professor, Yale, 1928-1934, associate professor, ethnology, 1934-1939, professor, anthropology, 1939-1960, director, cross-cultural survey, Institute of Human Relations, 1937-1946; Mellon professor, anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, 1960-1971, emeritus professor, 1971-1985 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between George Murdock and Anthony F. C. Wallace
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1955-1961 | | | Extent: | 6 letters | | | Abstract: | Asking Murdock to represent the AAA at The 59th Annual Meeting of the Academy - topic: Internal Security and Civil Rights in America; asking for evaluation of Ward Goodenough; reprints | | | Source: | Wallace Family Papers, Subcollection I, Anthony F. C. Wallace Papers (Ms. Coll. 64) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Murdock, George Peter, 1897-1985 | | | | Anthropologist. Instructor, sociology, University of Maryland, 1925-1927; assistant professor, Yale, 1928-1934, associate professor, ethnology, 1934-1939, professor, anthropology, 1939-1960, director, cross-cultural survey, Institute of Human Relations, 1937-1946; Mellon professor, anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, 1960-1971, emeritus professor, 1971-1985 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between George Murdock and E. Adamson Hoebel
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1939, 1942, 1947 | | | Extent: | 3 letters | | | Abstract: | Compliments on Hoebel's kinship article; invitation to Murdock to speak at American Ethnological Society meeting as well as attend one of his student lectures; publications | | | 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 | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Murdock, George Peter, 1897-1985 | | | | Anthropologist. Instructor, sociology, University of Maryland, 1925-1927; assistant professor, Yale, 1928-1934, associate professor, ethnology, 1934-1939, professor, anthropology, 1939-1960, director, cross-cultural survey, Institute of Human Relations, 1937-1946; Mellon professor, anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, 1960-1971, emeritus professor, 1971-1985 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between George Murdock and J. Alden Mason
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 8 February 1946 - 12 September 1952 | | | Extent: | 27 letters | | | Abstract: | 25 letters (12 to Mason, 13 to Murdock) + 2 letters to Linton Sattherwaite and Weston LaBarre. Society for Applied Anthropology; Velikovsky; American Anthropologist; publications | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Murdock, George Peter, 1897-1985 | | | | Anthropologist. Instructor, sociology, University of Maryland, 1925-1927; assistant professor, Yale, 1928-1934, associate professor, ethnology, 1934-1939, professor, anthropology, 1939-1960, director, cross-cultural survey, Institute of Human Relations, 1937-1946; Mellon professor, anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, 1960-1971, emeritus professor, 1971-1985 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between George Murdock and William Fenton
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1940-1947, 1967 | | | Extent: | 12 letters | | | Abstract: | Iroquois information for professor at Yale; thanking for support of application for a commission in the Naval Reserve for the division of occupied areas; Murdock's work in Micronesia; teaching; personal. See also Society for Applied Anthropology and American Anthropological Association | | | Source: | William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Murdock, George Peter, 1897-1985 | | | | Anthropologist. Instructor, sociology, University of Maryland, 1925-1927; assistant professor, Yale, 1928-1934, associate professor, ethnology, 1934-1939, professor, anthropology, 1939-1960, director, cross-cultural survey, Institute of Human Relations, 1937-1946; Mellon professor, anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, 1960-1971, emeritus professor, 1971-1985 | |
| | Title: | Letter to Ashley Montagu
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1961 | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | Abstract: | Murdock suggesting subscription to a new journal from the University of Pittsburgh called "Ethnology" | | | Source: | Ashley Montagu Papers (Ms. Coll. 109) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Murdock, George Peter, 1897-1985 | | | | Anthropologist. Instructor, sociology, University of Maryland, 1925-1927; assistant professor, Yale, 1928-1934, associate professor, ethnology, 1934-1939, professor, anthropology, 1939-1960, director, cross-cultural survey, Institute of Human Relations, 1937-1946; Mellon professor, anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, 1960-1971, emeritus professor, 1971-1985 | |
| | Title: | Maps for South America
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | n.d. | | | Extent: |
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| | | Abstract: | Arranged by Florence Robinett from "Outline of South American Culture, 1951" | | | Source: | C. F. Voegelin Papers (Ms. Coll. 68) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| Author: | Murdock, George Peter, 1897-1985 | | | | Anthropologist. Instructor, sociology, University of Maryland, 1925-1927; assistant professor, Yale, 1928-1934, associate professor, ethnology, 1934-1939, professor, anthropology, 1939-1960, director, cross-cultural survey, Institute of Human Relations, 1937-1946; Mellon professor, anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, 1960-1971, emeritus professor, 1971-1985 | |
| | Title: | Peopling the New World (South America After North America)
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | n.d. | | | Extent: |
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| | | Source: | C. F. Voegelin Papers (Ms. Coll. 68) | | | |
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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 | |
| Author: | Myres, John Linton, 1869-1954 | | | | Archaeologist, historian. Fellow, Magdalen College, Oxford University, 1892-1895; lecturer in classical archaeology, Oxford University, 1895-1907; professor of Greek and lecturer in ancient geography, Liverpool University, 1907-1910; Wykeham professor of ancient history, Oxford University, 1910-1939; editor, Man, 1901-1903, 1931-1946; chairman, British School at Athens, 1934-1947 | |
| | 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 | |
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