Subject • | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork |
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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 |
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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: | Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958 | | | | Ethnologist. Assistant ethnologist, Bureau of American Ethnology, 1900-1903, ethnologist, 1903-1944; associate editor, American Anthropologist, 1910, 1912-20, editor, 1911, 1921-1923 | |
| | Title: | Escape Up the Tree
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1919, [1922] | | | Extent: |
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| | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (Ms. Coll. 29) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | |
2 | Author: | Spier, Leslie, 1893-1961 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1916-1920; instructor, anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle, 1920-1921, assistant professor, 1921-1927, professor and director of museum, 1929; visiting professor, University of Chicago, 1928, 1930; research associate, Yale University, 1931-1933, associate professor, 1933-1939; professor, University of New Mexico, 1939-1955, emeritus professor, 1955-1961; editor, American Anthropologist, 1934-1939 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Leslie Spier and Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1918, 1920-1937 | | | Extent: | 2 folders | | | Abstract: | Fieldwork; education; various discussions on publications; editing; journals - publishing, costs, process; peers papers | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (Ms. Coll. 29) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
3 | 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 Spier and Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1918, 1920-1937 | | | Extent: | 2 folders | | | Abstract: | Fieldwork; education; various discussions on publications; editing; journals - publishing, costs, process; peers papers | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (Ms. Coll. 29) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
4 | Author: | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | | | | Anthropologist, linguist. Research assistant, anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1907-1908; instructor, anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, 1908-1910; chief of division, anthropology, Canadian National Museum, 1910-1925; associate professor, anthropology, University of Chicago, 1925-1927, professor, anthopology and general linguistics, 1927-1931; Sterling professor, anthropology and linguistics, Yale University, 1931-1939 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Edward Sapir and Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1918-1936 | | | Extent: | 20 letters | | | Abstract: | Education; Alain Locke - African art interest; Father Berard - Navaho and Apache work; fieldwork; funding; publications on various anthropological fields; anthropological work/employment; students - fieldwork | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (Ms. Coll. 29) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
5 | 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 Edward Sapir and Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1918-1936 | | | Extent: | 20 letters | | | Abstract: | Education; Alain Locke - African art interest; Father Berard - Navaho and Apache work; fieldwork; funding; publications on various anthropological fields; anthropological work/employment; students - fieldwork | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (Ms. Coll. 29) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
6 | 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 | |
7 | 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 | |
8 | Author: | Goddard, Pliny Earle, 1869-1928 | | | | Ethnologist. Instructor, anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1901-1906, assistant professor, 1906-1909; assistant curator, anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1909-1910, associate curator, 1910-1914, curator, 1914-1928; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia University, 1915-1928. | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Pliny Goddard and Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1913-1923 | | | Extent: | 2 folders | | | Abstract: | Peers; comments on Parson's "Links Between Religion and Morality in Early Culture"; journals; publishing/publications; ceremonies; culture; Zuni; funding; fieldwork; "American Anthropologist"; personal | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (Ms. Coll. 29) | | | |
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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 | |
9 | 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 Pliny Goddard and Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1913-1923 | | | Extent: | 2 folders | | | Abstract: | Peers; comments on Parson's "Links Between Religion and Morality in Early Culture"; journals; publishing/publications; ceremonies; culture; Zuni; funding; fieldwork; "American Anthropologist"; personal | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (Ms. Coll. 29) | | | |
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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 | |
10 | 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 | |
11 | 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 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 | |
12 | Author: | Kidder, Alfred Vincent, 1885-1963 | | | | Archaeologist. Curator, North American archaeology, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, 1914; director, excavation program at Pecos, New Mexico, Peabody Foundation, Phillips Academy, 1915-1919; associate in charge of archaeology, investigations, Carnegie Institution, 1927-1929, chairman, division of historical research, 1929-1950; honorary curator, 1939-1951. | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Alfred Kidder and Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1920-1935 | | | Extent: | Approximately 25 letters | | | Abstract: | Fieldwork/ethnology; funding; publications; Pecos; Summer Training Course; women in anthropology; ceremonial pottery; Zuni; Parsons elected member of Advisory Board/Board of Trustees of the Laboratory of Anthropology; memorandum concerning problems of the Laboratory of Anthropology | | | 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 | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
13 | 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 Alfred Kidder and Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1920-1935 | | | Extent: | Approximately 25 letters | | | Abstract: | Fieldwork/ethnology; funding; publications; Pecos; Summer Training Course; women in anthropology; ceremonial pottery; Zuni; Parsons elected member of Advisory Board/Board of Trustees of the Laboratory of Anthropology; memorandum concerning problems of the Laboratory of Anthropology | | | 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 | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
14 | 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: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers
| | | Type: | Collection | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | [1882]-1978 | | | Extent: | 36 linear feet | | | Abstract: | Primarily correspondence, but includes financial and family records, photographs, diaries, manuscripts of published and unpublished works. Much of correspondence consists of Parsons' family letters, but there are four boxes of professional correspondence. Correspondents include Ruth Benedict, Ruth Bunzel, J. Walter Fewkes, Franklin Giddings, P.E. Goddard, A. Goldenweiser, M. Herskovits, A. Kidder, Walter Lippmann, R. Lowie, Paul Radin, R. Redfield,G. Reichard, L. Spier, Clark Wissler | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (Ms. Coll. 29) | | | |
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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 | Folklore, mythology, religion | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
15 | Author: | Reichard, Gladys, 1893-1955 | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, anthropology, Barnard College, 1921-1922; research fellow, University of California, Berkeley, 1922-1923; instructor, anthropology, Barnard College, 1923-1928, assistant professor, 1928-1941, associate professor, 1941-1951, professor, 1951-1955 | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Gladys Reichard and Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1923-1937, 1940-1941 | | | Extent: | 3 folders | | | Abstract: | Much discussion on fieldwork and ethnography; ceremonies; genealogy; peers; education; Navaho; various aspects of culture and anthropological work; funding; Folklore Society; publications; personal | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (Ms. Coll. 29) | | | |
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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 | Folklore, mythology, religion | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
16 | 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 Gladys Reichard and Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1923-1937, 1940-1941 | | | Extent: | 3 folders | | | Abstract: | Much discussion on fieldwork and ethnography; ceremonies; genealogy; peers; education; Navaho; various aspects of culture and anthropological work; funding; Folklore Society; publications; personal | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (Ms. Coll. 29) | | | |
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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 | Folklore, mythology, religion | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
17 | Author: | Kroeber, Alfred Louis, 1876-1960 | | | | Anthropologist. Instructor, anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1901-1906, assistant professor, 1906-1912, associate professor, 1912-1919, professor, 1919-1946, emeritus professor, 1946-1960; curator, Museum of Anthropology, University of California, 1908-1925, director, 1925-1946, emeritus director, 1946-1960. | |
| | Title: | Correspondence between Alfred Kroeber and Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1915-1939 | | | Extent: | 7 folders | | | Abstract: | Publications comments; folklores; peers - Goddard, Tozzer, Wissler, etc.; fieldwork; ethnography; ethnology; Zuni; language; editing issues; Acoma Project Conference; funding; professional organizations; personal | | | 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 | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
18 | 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 Alfred Kroeber and Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1915-1939 | | | Extent: | 7 folders | | | Abstract: | Publications comments; folklores; peers - Goddard, Tozzer, Wissler, etc.; fieldwork; ethnography; ethnology; Zuni; language; editing issues; Acoma Project Conference; funding; professional organizations; personal | | | 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 | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
19 | 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: | Franz Boas Manuscript Materials
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | 1913-1942 | | | Extent: | 7 folders | | | Abstract: | Correspondence with Elsie Clews Parsons: Various fieldwork discussion; folklore; "Preserving our Ideals: Thoughts at these Critical Times of One Who Subordinates Patriotism to His Conception of Mankind as a Whole - An Anthropological View" by Boas, 1917; education; publications; Dr. Leo J. Frachtenberg - discharge from Smithsonian, issues and his work; publication funding and publishing; language; "Notes from Laguna", 1922; Pliny Earle Goddard; music; ethnology; peers; Native American culture; discussion on various anthropological work; journals/subscriptions; Boas retirement; book dedication to Parsons; personal. Lectures, remarks to Boas' class in anthropology, 1918. Boas address to American Folklore Society, notes, 1900. Parson's Obituary by Boas, 1942. Photograph of Boas, [Reichard album], n.d. | | | 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 | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
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