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 | [X] | | • | 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: | Albright, William Foxwell, 1891-1971 | | | | | Archaeologist, orientalist. Acting director, American School of Oriental Research, 1920-1921, director, 1921-1929, 1933-1936; W. W. Spence professor, Semitic languages, Johns Hopkins University, 1929-1958, emeritus professor, 1958-1971; director, archaeological expedition, Palestine, 1922-1934. | |
| | | Title: | Letter to George W. Corner
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 29 June 1970 | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | Albright's research interests and hobbies | | | | Source: | American Philosophical Society Archives (A.P.S. Archives) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Personal matters | |
| 2 | Author: | Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933 | | | | | Archaeologist, illustrator. Artist, U.S. Survey, 1872-1874, assistant geologist, 1874-1879; assistant geologist, U.S. Geological Survey, 1880-1888; archaeologist, Bureau of American Ethnology, 1889-1894; curator of anthropology, Field Museum, Chicago, 1894-1897; curator, department of anthropology, Smithsonian Institution, 1897-1920; chief, Bureau of American Ethnology, 1902-1907; director, National Gallery of Art, 1920-1932. | |
| | | Title: | Letter to Stephen Bowers
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | n.d. | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | Personal | | | | Source: | Stephen Bowers Correspondence (B B672) | | | | |
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| 3 | 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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| 4 | Author: | Olbrechts, Frans M., 1899-1959 | | | | | Linguist, anthropologist. Olbrechts spent a year studying under Boas at Columbia before doing linguistic fieldwork among various Indian tribes. A native of Belgium, Olbrechts worked successively as a museum curator in Brussels and as a faculty member at Ghent University | |
| | | 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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| 5 | 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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| 6 | 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: | Boas Family Papers
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1862-1942 | | | | Extent: | 17 boxes (9 linear feet) | | | | Abstract: | Letters between Boas family members, including Maria, Meyer, Sophie, Toni, Hedwig, Ernst, and Anne Boas. Letters from Franz Boas have been extracted (see Franz Boas Miscellaneous Papers, B B61p). Correspondence covers family matters and Franz' personal life and development. | | | | Source: | Boas Family Papers (B B61f) | | | | |
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| 8 | 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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| 9 | Author: | Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913 | | | | | Naturalist. Apprentice watchmaker, 1838-1839; assistant surveyor, 1839-1844, surveyor, 1846-1848; master, Leicester Collegiate School, 1844-1846; travels to Amazonia, 1848-1852, Malay Archipelago, 1854-1862; writer, public lecturer on evolution, natural history, politics, and social reform, 1862-1913 | |
| | | Title: | Letter to Rollo Russell
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 29 June 1913 | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | Bournemouth Museum | | | | Source: | Francis Albert Rollo Russell Papers (B R913) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Personal matters | |
| 10 | Author: | Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913 | | | | | Naturalist. Apprentice watchmaker, 1838-1839; assistant surveyor, 1839-1844, surveyor, 1846-1848; master, Leicester Collegiate School, 1844-1846; travels to Amazonia, 1848-1852, Malay Archipelago, 1854-1862; writer, public lecturer on evolution, natural history, politics, and social reform, 1862-1913 | |
| | | Title: | Alfred Russel Wallace Collection
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1867-1913 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 linear feet | | | | Abstract: | Miscellaneous assemblage of letters written by and to Alfred Russel Wallace, primarily during the last twenty five years of his life. Varied in content, the letters touch on Wallace's views on evolution, Spiritualism, and to a less degree, his progressive social commitments | | | | Source: | Alfred Russel Wallace Collection (B W15a) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Personal matters | |
| 11 | 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: | Correspondence between Paul A. W. Wallace and William Lingelbach
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 23 May 1949 - 30 October 1961 | | | | Extent: | 8 letters | | | | Abstract: | 8 letters (3 to Wallace, 5 to Lingelbach). John Heckewelder; Philadelphia and Pennsylvania history; publications; personal | | | | Source: | Wlliam Ezra Lingelbach Papers (B L635) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| 13 | Author: | White, Leslie A., 1900-1975 | | | | | Anthropologist. Instructor, sociology and anthropology, University of Buffalo, 1927-1928, assistant professor, 1928-1930; assistant professor, anthropology, University of Michigan, 1930-1932, associate professor, 1932-1943, professor, 1943-1970, chairman of department, 1945-1957; visiting professor, anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1973-1975; curator, anthropology, Buffalo Museum of Science, 1927-1930 | |
| | | Title: | Letters to E. Adamson Hoebel
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1970, 1973 | | | | Extent: | 2 letters | | | | Abstract: | White declining to read article; personal | | | | Source: | E. Adamson Hoebel Papers (Ms. Coll. 43) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Personal matters | |
| 14 | Author: | White, Leslie A., 1900-1975 | | | | | Anthropologist. Instructor, sociology and anthropology, University of Buffalo, 1927-1928, assistant professor, 1928-1930; assistant professor, anthropology, University of Michigan, 1930-1932, associate professor, 1932-1943, professor, 1943-1970, chairman of department, 1945-1957; visiting professor, anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1973-1975; curator, anthropology, Buffalo Museum of Science, 1927-1930 | |
| | | 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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| 15 | 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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| 16 | 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 Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | [1914]-1920 | | | | Extent: | 5 letters | | | | Abstract: | Psychology; personal finance | | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (Ms. Coll. 29) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Personal matters | |
| 17 | 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: | Correspondence between Alexander Goldenweiser and Frank G. Speck
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1913-1917 | | | | Extent: | 8 items | | | | Abstract: | Reviews; lecture for Aitken's class; personal | | | | Source: | Frank Gouldsmith Speck Papers (Ms. Coll. 126) | | | | |
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| 18 | Author: | Speck, Frank G., 1881-1950 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1909-1911; instructor, ethnology, University of Pennsylvania, 1909-1911, assistant professor, 1911-1925, professor, 1925-1950; lecturer, ethnology, Swarthmore College, 1923-1927; assistant editor, American Anthropologist, 1920-1937 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Alexander Goldenweiser and Frank G. Speck
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1913-1917 | | | | Extent: | 8 items | | | | Abstract: | Reviews; lecture for Aitken's class; personal | | | | Source: | Frank Gouldsmith Speck Papers (Ms. Coll. 126) | | | | |
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| 19 | Author: | Haddon, Alfred Cort, 1855-1940 | | | | | Anthropologist. Professor, zoology, Royal College of Science, Dublin, 1880-1901; lecturer, physical anthropology, Cambridge University, 1894-1898; university lecturer in ethnology, 1900-1909; reader in ethnology, 1909-1925. Haddon also served in various curatorial positions at the Science and Art Museum, Dublin; the Horniman Museum, London, and the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. | |
| | | Title: | Letter to William Johnson Sollas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 22 July 1928 | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | Research support for Louis Leakey in Kenya; personal | | | | Source: | William Johnson Sollas Letters (B So4) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| 20 | Author: | Hoebel, E. (Edward) Adamson, 1906-1993 | | | | | Anthropologist. Instructor sociology, New York University, 1929-1935, associate professor sociology and anthropology, 1935-1941, associate professor, 1941-1948; lecturer; visiting instructor to various universities; professor, head University of Utah, 1948-1954; professor, chairman University of Minnesota, 1954-1968, Regent's professor, 1966-1972, professor law, 1972-1981; emeritus, 1972-1993 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between E. Adamson Hoebel and Anthony F. C. Wallace
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | n.d. | | | | Extent: | 3 letters | | | | Abstract: | Employment; education - invitation from Hoebel to join University of Minnesota - Wallace declines, gives suggestion | | | | 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 | Personal matters | |
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