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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| | • | 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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| | • | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology |
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| | 1 | Author: | Herskovits, Melville J., 1895-1963 | | | | | Cultural and physical anthropologist. NRC fellow in anthropology, 1923-1926; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia University, 1924-1927; lecturer, Howard University, 1925; assistant professor, anthropology, Northwestern University, 1927-1930; associate professor and department chairman, 1931-1935; professor, 1935-1963; professor, African studies, 1960-1963; director, African studies, 1951-1963. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Melville Herskovits and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 8 June 1923 - 14 November 1942 | | | | Extent: | 146 letters | | | | Abstract: | 139 letters (50 to Boas, 89 to Herskovits) + 7 letters to/from J. J. Augustin, H. R. Bryan, M. C. Kahn, E. C. Parsons, P. M. Rae, W. E. Both, George Saslow. The results of racial crossing among American Negroes; cephalic indices; anthropometry; Negro motor behavior; survival of African customs among Negroes in Caribbean and South America; fieldwork in Caribbean, South America, Africa, U.S.; Archives of Musicology, Berlin; funding for research and publications. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| 2 | Author: | Herskovits, Melville J., 1895-1963 | | | | | Cultural and physical anthropologist. NRC fellow in anthropology, 1923-1926; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia University, 1924-1927; lecturer, Howard University, 1925; assistant professor, anthropology, Northwestern University, 1927-1930; associate professor and department chairman, 1931-1935; professor, 1935-1963; professor, African studies, 1960-1963; director, African studies, 1951-1963. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Melville Herskovits and Charles Davenport
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 25 May 1923 - 29 July 1935 | | | | Extent: | 31 letters | | | | Abstract: | 31 letters (16 to Davenport, 15 to Herskovits). Racial variability; offspring of racial crossing between Negroes and other races; blood and skin color; publications | | | | 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 | |
| 3 | Author: | Herskovits, Melville J., 1895-1963 | | | | | Cultural and physical anthropologist. NRC fellow in anthropology, 1923-1926; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia University, 1924-1927; lecturer, Howard University, 1925; assistant professor, anthropology, Northwestern University, 1927-1930; associate professor and department chairman, 1931-1935; professor, 1935-1963; professor, African studies, 1960-1963; director, African studies, 1951-1963. | |
| | | 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 | |
| 4 | Author: | Herskovits, Melville J., 1895-1963 | | | | | Cultural and physical anthropologist. NRC fellow in anthropology, 1923-1926; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia University, 1924-1927; lecturer, Howard University, 1925; assistant professor, anthropology, Northwestern University, 1927-1930; associate professor and department chairman, 1931-1935; professor, 1935-1963; professor, African studies, 1960-1963; director, African studies, 1951-1963. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Melville Herskovits and Clews Parsons
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 10 April 1939 - 10 April 1941 | | | | Extent: | 19 letters | | | | Abstract: | 19 letters (15 to Parsons, 4 to Herskovits). Fieldwork; folklore; Journal of American Folk-Lore; American Folk-Lore Society; SSRC; research funding; professional meetings; publications | | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (572 P25.1) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| 5 | Author: | Herskovits, Melville J., 1895-1963 | | | | | Cultural and physical anthropologist. NRC fellow in anthropology, 1923-1926; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia University, 1924-1927; lecturer, Howard University, 1925; assistant professor, anthropology, Northwestern University, 1927-1930; associate professor and department chairman, 1931-1935; professor, 1935-1963; professor, African studies, 1960-1963; director, African studies, 1951-1963. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Melville Herskovits and William Fenton
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1944-1962 | | | | Extent: | 1 folder | | | | Abstract: | Committee on International Cooperation in Anthropology - meetings and topics; comparative musicology (Iroquois) - Master's student work; requesting copy of Antonio Vasquez de Espinosa's "Compedium and Description of the West Indies"; copies of articles in Encyclopedia Britannica - "Anthropology, 1943" and "Anthropology, 1944"; Dr. Sven Liljeblad; anthropology abroad; copy of "German Scientific Museum Collections: A Preliminary Report"; Permanent Council of the International Congress; copy of "Anthropology in 1945"; anthropology education; anthropology at Northwestern University - teaching; International Directory of Anthropologists questionnaire; Report on the Commission on trends in Education; Report on the Committee on International Cooperation in Anthropology for the AAA; "Fellow Newsletter", 1962; personal. See also Series IIa International Union of Anthropological and Ethnographical Sciences and National Research Council; Committee on International Cooperation in Anthropology | | | | Source: | William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| 6 | Author: | Herskovits, Melville J., 1895-1963 | | | | | Cultural and physical anthropologist. NRC fellow in anthropology, 1923-1926; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia University, 1924-1927; lecturer, Howard University, 1925; assistant professor, anthropology, Northwestern University, 1927-1930; associate professor and department chairman, 1931-1935; professor, 1935-1963; professor, African studies, 1960-1963; director, African studies, 1951-1963. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Melville Herskovits and Alfred Hallowell
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1943-1961 | | | | Extent: | 13 letters | | | | Abstract: | Comments on paper; teaching; correction on an error in a publication; Dr. Kofi Busia; Connaissance Group - Program "Black Africa" (University of Pennsylvania) | | | | Source: | Alfred Irving Hallowell Papers (Ms. Coll. 26) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 7 | Author: | Herskovits, Melville J., 1895-1963 | | | | | Cultural and physical anthropologist. NRC fellow in anthropology, 1923-1926; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia University, 1924-1927; lecturer, Howard University, 1925; assistant professor, anthropology, Northwestern University, 1927-1930; associate professor and department chairman, 1931-1935; professor, 1935-1963; professor, African studies, 1960-1963; director, African studies, 1951-1963. | |
| | | Title: | Letters to Ashley Montagu
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1942, 1946 | | | | Extent: | 3 letters | | | | Abstract: | Grants for William Laughlin; publications; comments on Boas' contribution to genetic approach toward race | | | | 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 | Financial support for research and publication | |
| 8 | Author: | Herskovits, Melville J., 1895-1963 | | | | | Cultural and physical anthropologist. NRC fellow in anthropology, 1923-1926; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia University, 1924-1927; lecturer, Howard University, 1925; assistant professor, anthropology, Northwestern University, 1927-1930; associate professor and department chairman, 1931-1935; professor, 1935-1963; professor, African studies, 1960-1963; director, African studies, 1951-1963. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Melville Herskovits and Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1929-1937, 1941 | | | | Extent: | 4 folders | | | | Abstract: | Detail of Herskovits fieldwork/ethnography work; folklores; music; cultures; publications/publishing; fieldwork funding; fieldwork plans; education; employment | | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (Ms. Coll. 29) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| 9 | Author: | Herskovits, Melville J., 1895-1963 | | | | | Cultural and physical anthropologist. NRC fellow in anthropology, 1923-1926; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia University, 1924-1927; lecturer, Howard University, 1925; assistant professor, anthropology, Northwestern University, 1927-1930; associate professor and department chairman, 1931-1935; professor, 1935-1963; professor, African studies, 1960-1963; director, African studies, 1951-1963. | |
| | | Title: | Suriname Folklore
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscript | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | Circa 1936 | | | | Extent: | 1 item | | | | Abstract: |
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| | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (Ms. Coll. 29) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Folklore, mythology, religion | |
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