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| | 2 | Author: | Wallace, Paul A. W., 1891-1967 | | | | | Professor of English, Pennsylvania historian. English professor and department chairman, Lebanon Valley College; editor, Pennsylvania History, 1951-1957; consultant, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, historian, 1957-1965 | |
| | | Title: | Letters to Frank G. Speck
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1943, 1945 | | | | Extent: | 2 letters | | | | Abstract: | Concerning history of the Six Nations; Cree tales (Wissakutchek) collected by Edward Ahenakew in Alberta. Concerns Joseph Montours and his return to his native religion | | | | Source: | Frank Gouldsmith Speck Papers (Ms. Coll. 126) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Folklore, mythology, religion | |
| 4 | Author: | Wallace, Anthony F. C., 1923- | | | | | Anthropologist. Instructor anthropology Bryn Mawr College, 1948-1950; assistant instructor anthropology University of Pennsylvania, research secretary Behavioral Research Council, 1951-1955; research assistant professor University of Pennsylvania, 1952-1955, visiting associate professor, 1955-1961, professor, 1961, chairman, 1961-1971; Geraldine R. Segal professor social thought, 1980-1983, University professor, 1983-1988, professor emeritus, 1988- | |
| | | Title: | Letter to Claude Levi-Strauss
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1956 | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | Asking Levi-Strauss for reprint of paper on the structure of myths; compliments | | | | Source: | Wallace Family Papers, Subcollection I, Anthony F. C. Wallace Papers (Ms. Coll. 64) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Folklore, mythology, religion | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 5 | Author: | Bunzel, Ruth Leah, 1898-1990 | | | | | Anthropologist. Associate director, Research in Contemporary Cultures, Columbia University, 1947-1951, lecturer, anthropology, Columbia University, 1954-1960, adjunct professor, 1960-1969, senior research associate, 1969-. | |
| | | Title: | Letters to Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 26 October 1939 - 30 May 1940 | | | | Extent: | 2 letters | | | | Abstract: | 2 letters to Parsons. Folklore; Zuni ethnology and fieldwork | | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (572 P25.1) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | |
| 6 | Author: | Hoffman, Walter James, 1846-1899 | | | | | Ethnologist, physician. Acting assistant surgeon, U.S. Army, 1871-1873; curator of ethnology and mineralogy, U.S. geographical and geological survey, 1877-1879; assistant ethnologist, Bureau of Ethnology, 1879-1899. | |
| | | Title: | Letters to the APS
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 15 July 1888 - 1897 | | | | Extent: | 22 letters | | | | Abstract: | 22 letters to I. Minis Hays, E. M. Morison, Henry Phillips. Folk medicine; Ojibwa Indians; "Menonomie" language; Pennsylvania German customs; publications | | | | 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 | Folklore, mythology, religion | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 7 | Author: | Barbeau, Charles Marius, 1883-1969 | | | | | Anthropologist. Anthropologist, National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, 1911-1948, consultant, 1948-1969; professor, Loyola University, 1945-1955, emeritus professor, 1955-1969; lecturer, Montreal University; co-editor, Journal of American Folklore, 1916-1969 | |
| | | Title: | Letters to Alfred Hallowell
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1945, 1947 | | | | Extent: | 2 letters | | | | Abstract: | Bear ceremonialism; publications | | | | Source: | Alfred Irving Hallowell Papers (Ms. Coll. 26) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Folklore, mythology, religion | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 8 | Author: | Benedict, Ruth Fulton, 1887-1948 | | | | | Anthropologist. Lecturer, anthropology, Columbia University, 1923-1930; assistant professor, 1930-1936; associate professor, 1936-1948; professor, 1948. Helped organize project for Research in Contemporary Cultures at Columbia University, 1946. Studied folklore, ethnology, the psychological basis of cultural patterns. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Ruth Benedict and J. Alden Mason
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 6 December 1927 - 18 July 1947 | | | | Extent: | 46 letters | | | | Abstract: | 46 letters (34 to Mason, 22 to Benedict). Folklore; publications; personal. | | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Folklore, mythology, religion | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| 9 | 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 | |
| 10 | Author: | Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947 | | | | | Anthropologist, psychologist, museum curator. Assistant, psychology. Indiana University, 1895-1897; instructor, psychology and education, Ohio College, 1897-1899; assistant, psychology, Columbia University, 1899-1900; instructor, pedagogy, New York University, 1901-1902; assistant, ethnology, American Museum of Natural History, 1902-1905, curator, 1905-1907, curator of anthropology, 1907-1942, editor, anthropology publications, 1907-1942, emeritus curator, 1943-1947; assistant, anthropology, Columbia University, 1903-1904, lecturer, 1904-1909; professor, Institute for Human Relations, Yale University, 1924-1940, emeritus professor, 1940-1947 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Clark Wissler and William Fenton
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1935-1947 | | | | Extent: | 13 letters | | | | Abstract: | Anthropological work; museum pieces; Seneca; Iroquois "burying the hatchet" expression; Jesse Cornplanter; publications. See also: Cornplanter, Jesse J | | | | Source: | William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 11 | Author: | Fenton, William N., 1908-2005 | | | | | Anthropologist. U.S. Indian Service, 1935-1937; instructor in sociology and anthropology, St. Lawrence University, 1937-1938; visiting instructor to various universities; lecturer; associate anthropologist, Smithsonian, 1939-1943; ethnologist, 1943-1951; National Research Council, 1952-1954; New York State Museum and Science Service, 1954-1968; professor, SUNY-Albany, 1968-1974; professor emeritus, 1979-2005 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Clark Wissler and William Fenton
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1935-1947 | | | | Extent: | 13 letters | | | | Abstract: | Anthropological work; museum pieces; Seneca; Iroquois "burying the hatchet" expression; Jesse Cornplanter; publications. See also: Cornplanter, Jesse J | | | | Source: | William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 12 | Author: | Goldenweiser, Alexander, 1880-1940 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, lecturer, and instructor, anthropology, Columbia University, 1910-1919; lecturer, Rand School of Social Science, 1915-1929; lecturer, New School for Social Research, New York, 1919-1926; instructor, sociology, University of Oregon Extension, Portland, 1930-1932, professor of thought and culture, 1932-1939. | |
| | | Title: | Letters to William Fenton
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1912-1934 | | | | Extent: | 6 letters | | | | Abstract: | Fieldwork and field notes on Iroquois; Deganawidah work; John Gibson's death; reports; inquiry on Iroquois toteism; peers | | | | Source: | William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 13 | Author: | Hallowell, Alfred Irving, 1892-1974 | | | | | Anthropologist. Instructor, anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, 1922-1927, assistant professor, 1927-1936, associate professor, 1936-1939, professor, 1939-1944, department chairman, 1941-1944; professor, Northwestern University, 1944-1947; professor, University of Pennsylvania, 1947-1971, professor of anthropology, department of psychiatry, Medical School, and curator, social anthropology, University Museum, 1956-1971; emeritus professor and curator, 1971-1974. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Alfred Hallowell and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 15 January 1923 - 9 November 1928 | | | | Extent: | 16 letters | | | | Abstract: | 15 letters (7 to Boas, 8 to Hallowell) + 1 letter to Hallowell from E.R. Seligman. American Indian folklore; kinship; ACLS; Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences; research support. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Folklore, mythology, religion | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| 14 | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Alfred Hallowell and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 15 January 1923 - 9 November 1928 | | | | Extent: | 16 letters | | | | Abstract: | 15 letters (7 to Boas, 8 to Hallowell) + 1 letter to Hallowell from E.R. Seligman. American Indian folklore; kinship; ACLS; Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences; research support. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Folklore, mythology, religion | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| 15 | Author: | Barbeau, Charles Marius, 1883-1969 | | | | | Anthropologist. Anthropologist, National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, 1911-1948, consultant, 1948-1969; professor, Loyola University, 1945-1955, emeritus professor, 1955-1969; lecturer, Montreal University; co-editor, Journal of American Folklore, 1916-1969 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Charles Barbeau and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 12 February 1914 - 5 August 1940 | | | | Extent: | 108 letters | | | | Abstract: | 108 letters. (70 to Boas, 38 to Barbeau) + 8 letters to/from W. H. Clawson, L. Gouin, H. Andrews, B. C. Edel, A. Boulet, J. Tache, J. C. Brooks. French-Can. folklore; American Folklore Society; Journal of American Folklore; fieldwork; publications. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| 16 | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Charles Barbeau and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 12 February 1914 - 5 August 1940 | | | | Extent: | 108 letters | | | | Abstract: | 108 letters. (70 to Boas, 38 to Barbeau) + 8 letters to/from W. H. Clawson, L. Gouin, H. Andrews, B. C. Edel, A. Boulet, J. Tache, J. C. Brooks. French-Can. folklore; American Folklore Society; Journal of American Folklore; fieldwork; publications. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| 17 | 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 | |
| 18 | Author: | Fenton, William N., 1908-2005 | | | | | Anthropologist. U.S. Indian Service, 1935-1937; instructor in sociology and anthropology, St. Lawrence University, 1937-1938; visiting instructor to various universities; lecturer; associate anthropologist, Smithsonian, 1939-1943; ethnologist, 1943-1951; National Research Council, 1952-1954; New York State Museum and Science Service, 1954-1968; professor, SUNY-Albany, 1968-1974; professor emeritus, 1979-2005 | |
| | | 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 | |
| 19 | Author: | Levi-Strauss, Claude, 1908- | | | | | Anthropologist. Professor, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1935-1938; visiting professor New School for Social Research, 1941-1945; cultural counselor French Embassy, 1946-1947; associate curator Musee de l'Homme, 1948-1949; director Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, 1950-1982; professor College de Franc, 1959-1982 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Claude Levi-Strauss and Dell Hymes
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1961-1968, 1977, 1981 | | | | Extent: | Approximately 11 letters | | | | Abstract: | Computers; Levi-Strauss bibliography; myth; languages; publications and comments; Levi-Strauss recommendation of Hymes | | | | Source: | Dell H. Hymes Papers (Ms. Coll. 55) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 20 | Author: | Hymes, Dell Hathaway, 1927- | | | | | Linguist, folklorist. Instructor to assistant professor, social anthropology, Harvard University, 1956-1960; associate professor to professor of anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1960-65; professor of anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, 1965-1971, professor of folklore and linguistics, 1972-1987, professor of education, 1975-1987, dean of education, 1975-1987. University of Virginia, Professor of anthropology and English, 1987-2000, Emeritus Professor, 2000- | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Claude Levi-Strauss and Dell Hymes
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1961-1968, 1977, 1981 | | | | Extent: | Approximately 11 letters | | | | Abstract: | Computers; Levi-Strauss bibliography; myth; languages; publications and comments; Levi-Strauss recommendation of Hymes | | | | Source: | Dell H. Hymes Papers (Ms. Coll. 55) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
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