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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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| | • | Linguistics and philology |
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| | • | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections |
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| | • | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution |
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| | 41 | Author: | Werner, Oswald, 1928- | | | | | Anthropologist. Anthropology department Northwestern University, 1963-1998, chair 1978-1983, 1987-1989; editor "Cultural Anthropological Methods"; founder and director Northwestern University Ethnographic Field School, 1974 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Oswald Werner and Anthony F. C. Wallace
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1965-1975 | | | | Extent: | Approximately 6 letters | | | | Abstract: | Wallace's comments on Werner article; Planning symposium at AAA meeting to honor Voegelin, asking for papers, includes abstract for symposium and "Form for Paper Abstracts", and Wallace's summary of paper he wants to submit; Ethnoscience Ethnography symposium invitation to submit papers, Wallace declines | | | | Source: | Wallace Family Collection, Subcollection I, Anthony F. C. Wallace Papers (Ms. Coll. 64) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | |
| 42 | 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 Oswald Werner and Anthony F. C. Wallace
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1965-1975 | | | | Extent: | Approximately 6 letters | | | | Abstract: | Wallace's comments on Werner article; Planning symposium at AAA meeting to honor Voegelin, asking for papers, includes abstract for symposium and "Form for Paper Abstracts", and Wallace's summary of paper he wants to submit; Ethnoscience Ethnography symposium invitation to submit papers, Wallace declines | | | | Source: | Wallace Family Collection, Subcollection I, Anthony F. C. Wallace Papers (Ms. Coll. 64) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | |
| 43 | 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 Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 23 September 1931 - 16 April 1936 | | | | Extent: | 5 letters | | | | Abstract: | 5 letters (3 to Boas, 2 to White). Keresan linguistics; Fanny Bandelier; research funding | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Linguistics and philology | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| 44 | 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 Leslie White and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 23 September 1931 - 16 April 1936 | | | | Extent: | 5 letters | | | | Abstract: | 5 letters (3 to Boas, 2 to White). Keresan linguistics; Fanny Bandelier; research funding | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Linguistics and philology | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| 45 | Author: | Brinton, Daniel Garrison, 1837-1899 | | | | | Physician, anthropologist. Assistant editor, Medical and Surgical Reporter, 1867, editor, 1874-1887; professor, ethnology and archaeology, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1884-1886; professor, American linguistics and archaeology, University of Pennsylvania, 1886-1898. Brinton was an Americanist, concentrating his attention on the linguistics and archaeology of North and South American Indians. He was a leader in the systematic classification of American Indian languages and in the analysis of the origin of American Indian mounds. | |
| | | Title: | Letter to Stephen Bowers
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1 April 1884 | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | Publications | | | | Source: | Stephen Bowers Correspondence (B B672) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| 46 | 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 J. Alden Mason
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 10 December 1940 - 9 January 1958 | | | | Extent: | 30 letters | | | | Abstract: | 27 letters (17 to Mason, 10 to White) + 3 letters to Dorothy Donath. American Anthropologist; publications | | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 47 | 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 Leslie White and J. Alden Mason
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 10 December 1940 - 9 January 1958 | | | | Extent: | 30 letters | | | | Abstract: | 27 letters (17 to Mason, 10 to White) + 3 letters to Dorothy Donath. American Anthropologist; publications | | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 48 | 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 Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 17 May 1926 - 20 October 1941 | | | | Extent: | 49 letters | | | | Abstract: | 49 letters (30 to Parsons, 19 to White). Fieldwork among the Pueblo; Pueblo Indian ceremony, social structure, history; Pueblo Indian Religion; research support; social evolution; American Folk-Lore Society; publications; personal | | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (572 P25.1) | | | | |
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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 | Folklore, mythology, religion | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| 49 | 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: | Correspondence between Leslie White and Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 17 May 1926 - 20 October 1941 | | | | Extent: | 49 letters | | | | Abstract: | 49 letters (30 to Parsons, 19 to White). Fieldwork among the Pueblo; Pueblo Indian ceremony, social structure, history; Pueblo Indian Religion; research support; social evolution; American Folk-Lore Society; publications; personal | | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (572 P25.1) | | | | |
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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 | Folklore, mythology, religion | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| 50 | 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 William Fenton
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1944-1955, 1970 | | | | Extent: | 12 letters | | | | Abstract: | Academics/teaching; John A. Noon; comments by Fenton on "The Expansion of the Scope of Science"; White writing biographical sketch of Goldenweiser for Dictionary of American Biography; personal. See also: Cairns, Huntington | | | | Source: | William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| 51 | 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 Leslie White and William Fenton
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1944-1955, 1970 | | | | Extent: | 12 letters | | | | Abstract: | Academics/teaching; John A. Noon; comments by Fenton on "The Expansion of the Scope of Science"; White writing biographical sketch of Goldenweiser for Dictionary of American Biography; personal. See also: Cairns, Huntington | | | | Source: | William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| 52 | 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 Alfred Hallowell
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1947-1956 | | | | Extent: | 6 letters | | | | Abstract: | Teaching; seminar "Kinship and Social Organization" - request for reprints of "Recent Changes in the Kinship Terminology of St. Francis Abenaki"; inquiry about where to obtain correspondences between Joseph Henry, Secretary of the Smithsonian, Lewis Henry Morgan, and a printing house; personal | | | | 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 | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| 53 | 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 Leslie White and Alfred Hallowell
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1947-1956 | | | | Extent: | 6 letters | | | | Abstract: | Teaching; seminar "Kinship and Social Organization" - request for reprints of "Recent Changes in the Kinship Terminology of St. Francis Abenaki"; inquiry about where to obtain correspondences between Joseph Henry, Secretary of the Smithsonian, Lewis Henry Morgan, and a printing house; personal | | | | 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 | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| 54 | 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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| 55 | 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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| | | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| 56 | 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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| 57 | 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 Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | [1927?]-1937, 1941 | | | | Extent: | 5 folders | | | | Abstract: | Fieldwork/ethnography; informants; societies; ceremonies; San Felipe notes; the Kachina cult notes; migration; interview with Miss Roberts and Mr. Reuter of Pecos; Taos notes - men and curing, doctoring, language, map, society chiefs, folklore, ceremonies, training; anthropology paper - "An Anthropological Appraisal of the Russian Revolution" by White; publishing and publications; education; clan/lineages; masks; various anthropological work by White, Sia, San Domingo, Taos, San Felipe, Acoma; genealogy; comments on lecture "The Disintegration of Pueblo Culture" | | | | 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 | Linguistics and philology | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 58 | 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: | Correspondence between Leslie White and Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | [1927?]-1937, 1941 | | | | Extent: | 5 folders | | | | Abstract: | Fieldwork/ethnography; informants; societies; ceremonies; San Felipe notes; the Kachina cult notes; migration; interview with Miss Roberts and Mr. Reuter of Pecos; Taos notes - men and curing, doctoring, language, map, society chiefs, folklore, ceremonies, training; anthropology paper - "An Anthropological Appraisal of the Russian Revolution" by White; publishing and publications; education; clan/lineages; masks; various anthropological work by White, Sia, San Domingo, Taos, San Felipe, Acoma; genealogy; comments on lecture "The Disintegration of Pueblo Culture" | | | | 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 | Linguistics and philology | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 59 | 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: | Letter to Anthony F. C. Wallace
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1968 | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | Education/course - employment of new professor to teach courses on North American natives | | | | Source: | Wallace Family Papers, Subcollection I, Anthony F. C. Wallace Papers (Ms. Coll. 64) | | | | |
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| 60 | Author: | Willis, William Shedrick, 1921-1983 | | | | | Anthropologist. Lecturer, anthropology, Columbia University, 1958-1959, 1960-1965; lecturer, CCNY, 1959-1960; assistant professor, Southern Methodist Univeristy and Bishop College, 1965-1966, Southern Methodist University, 1966-1968; associate professor, 1968-1972 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between William Willis and J. Alden Mason
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 2 October 1952 - 8 October 1952 | | | | Extent: | 2 letters | | | | Abstract: | American Indian guns and medals | | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
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