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| 101 | Author: | Combe, George, 1788-1858 | | | | Phrenologist, publicist. Combe was a prominent writer, lecturer, and popularizer of the phrenological movement in 19th-century Great Britain and the United States. Phrenology was the intellectual antecedent of later nineteenth- and twentieth-century craniology and anthropometry. Public debates over phrenology's materialist foundations foreshadowed succeeding arguments over the basis and validity of subsequent racial formalisms. | |
| | Title: | Letter to Isaac Hays
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 12 February 1839 | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | Abstract: | Phrenology | | | Source: | Isaac Hays Papers (B H334) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
102 | Author: | Combe, George, 1788-1858 | | | | Phrenologist, publicist. Combe was a prominent writer, lecturer, and popularizer of the phrenological movement in 19th-century Great Britain and the United States. Phrenology was the intellectual antecedent of later nineteenth- and twentieth-century craniology and anthropometry. Public debates over phrenology's materialist foundations foreshadowed succeeding arguments over the basis and validity of subsequent racial formalisms. | |
| | Title: | Letters to William Hutton
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 23 April 1836 - 27 April 1836 | | | Extent: | 2 letters | | | Abstract: | Phrenology | | | Source: | William Hutton Papers (B H978) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
103 | Author: | Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900 | | | | Ethnologist, archaeologist, member of the Bureau of American Ethnology (1879-1900). Cushing is best known for his studies of the Zuni Indians, including works on Zuni folkore and general ethnography. | |
| | Title: | Letters to Persifor Frazer, Isaac Minis Hays, and George H. Horn
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1869-1899 | | | Extent: | 34 letters | | | Abstract: | 34 letters to Persifor Frazer, Isaac Minis Hays, and George H. Horn. American Philosophical Society; publications. | | | Source: | American Philosophical Society Archives (A.P.S. Archives) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
105 | Author: | Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944 | | | | Biologist, eugenicist. Instructor, zoology, Harvard University, 1892-1899; assistant professor, University of Chicago, 1899-1891, associate professor, 1901-1904; director, summer biological lab, of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1898-1923; director, Station for Experimental Evolution, Cold Spring Harbor, 1904-1934; director, Eugenics Record Office, 1910-1934 (1920-1934, Department of Genetics, Carnegie Institution). Davenport was a central figure in American eugenics and, secondarily, in genetics research, from the founding of the Cold Spring Harbor Station in 1904 to the 1930s. He frequently found himself in serious disagreement with Boas and his supporters over the role of environment versus heredity in shaping racial morphology and social behavior. | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Charles Davenport and Franz Boas
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 26 December 1899 - 24 December 1936 | | | Extent: | 35 letters | | | Abstract: | 35 letter (18 to Boas, 17 to Davenport) + 1 letter from Davenport to Hrdlicka. Anthropometry; comparative racial mental capacities; stature; research funding; publications. | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
106 | 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 Davenport and Franz Boas
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 26 December 1899 - 24 December 1936 | | | Extent: | 35 letters | | | Abstract: | 35 letter (18 to Boas, 17 to Davenport) + 1 letter from Davenport to Hrdlicka. Anthropometry; comparative racial mental capacities; stature; research funding; publications. | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
107 | Author: | De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004 | | | | Anthropologist, archaeologist. Assistant, Eskimo archaeology, Danish Greenland expedition, 1929; assistant, American section, University of Pennsylvania Museum, 1931-1934; associate soil conservationist, Pima Reservation, USDA, 1935-1936; lecturer, anthropology, Bryn Mawr College, 1938-1941, assistant professor, 1941-1942, 1946-1949, associate professor, 1949-1955, professor, 1955-1976, emeritus professor, 1976-2004. | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Frederica De Laguna and Franz Boas
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 11 February 1929 - December 1936 | | | Extent: | 42 letters | | | Abstract: | 42 letters (31 to Boas, 11 to De Laguna). Studies and course work at Columbia University; archaeological fieldwork in Greenland, Alaska, Yukon; museum collections and work; Eskimo material culture; support for research; professional positions; personal; 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 | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
108 | 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 Frederica De Laguna and Franz Boas
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 11 February 1929 - December 1936 | | | Extent: | 42 letters | | | Abstract: | 42 letters (31 to Boas, 11 to De Laguna). Studies and course work at Columbia University; archaeological fieldwork in Greenland, Alaska, Yukon; museum collections and work; Eskimo material culture; support for research; professional positions; personal; 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 | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
109 | Author: | De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004 | | | | Anthropologist, archaeologist. Assistant, Eskimo archaeology, Danish Greenland expedition, 1929; assistant, American section, University of Pennsylvania Museum, 1931-1934; associate soil conservationist, Pima Reservation, USDA, 1935-1936; lecturer, anthropology, Bryn Mawr College, 1938-1941, assistant professor, 1941-1942, 1946-1949, associate professor, 1949-1955, professor, 1955-1976, emeritus professor, 1976-2004. | |
| | 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 | |
110 | 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 | |
111 | Author: | De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004 | | | | Anthropologist, archaeologist. Assistant, Eskimo archaeology, Danish Greenland expedition, 1929; assistant, American section, University of Pennsylvania Museum, 1931-1934; associate soil conservationist, Pima Reservation, USDA, 1935-1936; lecturer, anthropology, Bryn Mawr College, 1938-1941, assistant professor, 1941-1942, 1946-1949, associate professor, 1949-1955, professor, 1955-1976, emeritus professor, 1976-2004. | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Frederica De Laguna and William Fenton
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1948, 1955 | | | Extent: | 5 letters | | | Abstract: | De Laguna elected to Board of AAA; "public domain"; policies. See also: American Philosophical Society | | | Source: | William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) | | | |
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112 | 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 Frederica De Laguna and William Fenton
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1948, 1955 | | | Extent: | 5 letters | | | Abstract: | De Laguna elected to Board of AAA; "public domain"; policies. See also: American Philosophical Society | | | Source: | William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) | | | |
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113 | Author: | De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004 | | | | Anthropologist, archaeologist. Assistant, Eskimo archaeology, Danish Greenland expedition, 1929; assistant, American section, University of Pennsylvania Museum, 1931-1934; associate soil conservationist, Pima Reservation, USDA, 1935-1936; lecturer, anthropology, Bryn Mawr College, 1938-1941, assistant professor, 1941-1942, 1946-1949, associate professor, 1949-1955, professor, 1955-1976, emeritus professor, 1976-2004. | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Frederica De Laguna and Alfred Hallowell
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1946, 1958-1975 | | | Extent: | 10 letters | | | Abstract: | Bear ceremonialism; comments on Regna Darnell's manuscript/publication; William Laughlin; academic/teaching; publications; recommendation for application to Social Science Research Council for Faculty Research Fellowship - Tlingit of Yakutat, Alaska; ethnography/fieldwork; personal. See also: Indiana University Press; Spier, Leslie; White, Phillip L. | | | 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 | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
114 | 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 Frederica De Laguna and Alfred Hallowell
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1946, 1958-1975 | | | Extent: | 10 letters | | | Abstract: | Bear ceremonialism; comments on Regna Darnell's manuscript/publication; William Laughlin; academic/teaching; publications; recommendation for application to Social Science Research Council for Faculty Research Fellowship - Tlingit of Yakutat, Alaska; ethnography/fieldwork; personal. See also: Indiana University Press; Spier, Leslie; White, Phillip L. | | | 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 | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
115 | Author: | De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004 | | | | Anthropologist, archaeologist. Assistant, Eskimo archaeology, Danish Greenland expedition, 1929; assistant, American section, University of Pennsylvania Museum, 1931-1934; associate soil conservationist, Pima Reservation, USDA, 1935-1936; lecturer, anthropology, Bryn Mawr College, 1938-1941, assistant professor, 1941-1942, 1946-1949, associate professor, 1949-1955, professor, 1955-1976, emeritus professor, 1976-2004. | |
| | Title: | Letter to E. Adamson Hoebel
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1941 | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | Abstract: | Thank you for off-print of article about Eskimo Law-ways | | | Source: | E. Adamson Hoebel Papers (Ms. Coll. 43) | | | |
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116 | Author: | De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004 | | | | Anthropologist, archaeologist. Assistant, Eskimo archaeology, Danish Greenland expedition, 1929; assistant, American section, University of Pennsylvania Museum, 1931-1934; associate soil conservationist, Pima Reservation, USDA, 1935-1936; lecturer, anthropology, Bryn Mawr College, 1938-1941, assistant professor, 1941-1942, 1946-1949, associate professor, 1949-1955, professor, 1955-1976, emeritus professor, 1976-2004. | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Frederica De Laguna and Anthony F. C. Wallace
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1958-1964 | | | Extent: | 7 items | | | Abstract: | Congratulations on "Men and Cultures"; considering republishing Hallowell's book; Fred Adelmann for temporary position - recommendation from Wallace; college courses | | | Source: | Wallace Family Papers, Subcollection I, Anthony F. C. Wallace Papers (Ms. Coll. 64) | | | |
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117 | 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: | Correspondence between Frederica De Laguna and Anthony F. C. Wallace
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1958-1964 | | | Extent: | 7 items | | | Abstract: | Congratulations on "Men and Cultures"; considering republishing Hallowell's book; Fred Adelmann for temporary position - recommendation from Wallace; college courses | | | Source: | Wallace Family Papers, Subcollection I, Anthony F. C. Wallace Papers (Ms. Coll. 64) | | | |
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118 | Author: | Parsons, Elsie Clews, 1875-1941 | | | | Anthropologist, folklorist. Independently wealthy writer and researcher in ethnology and folklore. Lecturer, Barnard College, 1902-1905; assistant editor, Journal of American Folk-Lore; president, American Anthropological Association, 1940-1941 | |
| | Title: | Letter to Frederica De Laguna
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 26 November 1941 | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | Abstract: | Letter to De Laguna. American Anthropological Association | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (572 P25.1) | | | |
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119 | Author: | Dixon, Roland B., 1875-1934 | | | | Anthropologist. Member, Jesup North Pacific Expedition, 1898; instructor, anthropology, Harvard University, 1901-1906; assistant professor, 1906-1915, professor, 1915-1934. Curator, ethnology, Peabody Museum; member, National Research Council, 1922, Social Science Research Council, 1926-1929. | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Roland Dixon and Franz Boas
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 8 January 1898 - 18 November 1931 | | | Extent: | 305 letters | | | Abstract: | 305 letters (127 to Dixon, 178 to Boas). Folklore; American Folk-Lore Society; professional employment; research funding; linguistics; graduate education; International School of American Archaeology and Ethnology; use of anthropometric data for distinguishing physical types within populations; 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 | Folklore, mythology, religion | 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 | |
120 | 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 Roland Dixon and Franz Boas
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 8 January 1898 - 18 November 1931 | | | Extent: | 305 letters | | | Abstract: | 305 letters (127 to Dixon, 178 to Boas). Folklore; American Folk-Lore Society; professional employment; research funding; linguistics; graduate education; International School of American Archaeology and Ethnology; use of anthropometric data for distinguishing physical types within populations; 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 | Folklore, mythology, religion | 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 | |
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