Subject | • | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork |
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| | • | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture |
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| | • | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment |
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| | • | Financial support for research and publication |
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| | • | Folklore, mythology, religion |
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| | • | Linguistics and philology |
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| | • | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections |
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| | • | Personal matters |
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| | • | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution |
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| | • | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous |
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| | 1 | Author: | Fortune, Reo Franklin, 1903-1979 | | | | | Social anthropologist. Lecturer, social anthropology, Cambridge University. Specialist in Melanesian language and culture | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Reo Fortune and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 14 July 1930 - 1 October 1942 | | | | Extent: | 67 letters | | | | Abstract: | 67 letters (54 to Boas, 13 to Fortune). Omaha secret societies; Dobu ethnology; Chinese ethnography; social structure and behavior in Melanesia; linguistics; Margaret Mead; professional employment; biological basis of social behavior. Included with the correspondence are manuscript copies of some of Fortune's papers, which he sent to Boas for comment. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| 3 | Author: | Fortune, Reo Franklin, 1903-1979 | | | | | Social anthropologist. Lecturer, social anthropology, Cambridge University. Specialist in Melanesian language and culture | |
| | | Title: | An Anthropologist at Work: Writings of Ruth Benedict
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 10 January 1929 - 5 January 1934 | | | | Extent: | 175 leaves | | | | Abstract: | Manuscript copy of correspondence not used in published version. Original in Vassar Library. Correspondence between Ruth Benedict and Franz Boas, Reo Fortune, Margaret Mead. Dobu ethnology; Melanesian social behavior; publications. | | | | Source: | An Anthropologist at Work: Writings of Ruth Benedict (B B428.mx) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
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