Subject | • | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork |
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| | • | Archaeology, prehistory |
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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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| | • | 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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| | • | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution |
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| | • | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous |
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| | 1 | Author: | Tylor, Edward Burnett, 1832-1917 | | | | | Anthropologist. Worker in family brass-foundry, 1848-1855; independent travel, research and writing, 1855-1883; keeper, Oxford University Museum, 1883-1884; reader in anthropology, Oxford University, 1884-1896, professor, 1896-1909, emeritus professor, 1909-1917 | |
| | | Title: | Letters to Frank Jevons, Mrs. Davey, L.C. Miall
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 20 August 1872 - 31 August 1898 | | | | Extent: | 4 letters | | | | Abstract: | Publications; lectures; miscellaneous | | | | Source: | Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Misc. Mss.) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 2 | 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: | Letters to Dewitt Miller, W.J. Farmer, and John Wayler
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 6 April 1909 - 4 August 1909 | | | | Extent: | 3 letters | | | | Abstract: | Charles Darwin; evolution theory; race | | | | Source: | Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Misc. Mss.) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 5 | 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 concerning phrenology
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 30 October 1823 - 11 May 1840 | | | | Extent: | 7 letters | | | | Abstract: | Miscellaneous letters concerning phrenology to the editor of the Edinburgh Literary Gazette, J. C. Holland, John Vaughan, and the reviewer of the Phrenological Transactions in the Edinburgh Literary Gazette. | | | | Source: | Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Misc. Mss.) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| 6 | 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: | Atna Indians, Copper, Alaska
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1962 | | | | Extent: | 8 leaves | | | | Abstract: | Atna Indian materials | | | | Source: | Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Misc. Mss.) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | |
| 7 | Author: | Evans, Sir John, 1823-1908 | | | | | Archaeologist, numismatist, businessman. A businessman by occupation, Evans dedicated his spare time to studies of the antiquity of man in Europe and to British numismatics. He was active in numerous learned societies, serving as president of the Geological Society, Society of Antiquaries, the Numismatic Society, the Anthropological Institute, the Egypt Exploration Fund, and the Society of Arts. Evans was elected to the Royal Society in 1864 and made a KCB in 1892 | |
| | | Title: | Letter from David Ansted
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 28 March | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | Geology and archaeology | | | | Source: | Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Misc. Mss.) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | |
| 8 | Author: | Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849 | | | | | U. S. Representative, Secretary of the Treasury, diplomat, linguist. An immigrant to America in 1780, Gallatin later served as a representative in the U. S. Congress from western Pennsylvania, secretary of the treasury under Jefferson, and U.S. diplomatic representative abroad. Gallatin had a strong interest in the ethnology and linguistics of the American Indians. He was founder of the American Ethnological Society in 1842 and an important contributor to its Transactions. | |
| | | Title: | Letters from Albert Gallatin
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 25 May 1807 - 28 May 1846 | | | | Extent: | 5 letters | | | | Abstract: | Correspondents include Lea and Blanchard, publishers; Robert Patterson; John Vaughan | | | | Source: | Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Misc. Mss.) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Linguistics and philology | |
| 10 | Author: | Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956 | | | | | Ethnologist. U.S. Geological Survey, 1884-1886; secretary, Hemenway archaeological expedition, 1886-89; ethnologist, Bureau of American Ethnology, 1889-1910, ethnologist-in-charge, 1910-1918; Museum of American Indian, New York, 1918-1931; director, Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, 1931-1956; editor, American Anthropologist, 1899-1910, 1912-1914. | |
| | | Title: | Letter to Bradford Prince
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 19 April 1890 | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | Early Spanish expeditions to New Mexico | | | | Source: | Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Misc. Mss.) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 11 | Author: | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | | | | | Physician, naturalist. Medical practice, Philadelphia, 1789-1815; professor of natural history and botany, College of Philadelphia, 1790-95, of materia medica, 1895-1813; chair of theory and practice of medicine, 1813-15; physician to Pennsylvania Hospital, 1798-1815; founder and editor, Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal, 1805-08. Barton's interests and research included studies in botany, materia medica, and American ethnography. | |
| | | Title: | An Essay Towards a Natural History of North American Indians
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Photocopy | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | Circa 1788-1789 | | | | Extent: | 16 leaves | | | | Abstract: |
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| | | | Source: | Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Misc. Mss.) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| 13 | Author: | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | | | | | Physician, naturalist. Medical practice, Philadelphia, 1789-1815; professor of natural history and botany, College of Philadelphia, 1790-95, of materia medica, 1895-1813; chair of theory and practice of medicine, 1813-15; physician to Pennsylvania Hospital, 1798-1815; founder and editor, Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal, 1805-08. Barton's interests and research included studies in botany, materia medica, and American ethnography. | |
| | | Title: | Letter to John Heckewelder
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 22 February 1796 | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | American Indian antiquities and skin color | | | | Source: | Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Misc. Mss.) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| 14 | Author: | Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 | | | | | Paleontologist. Assistant paleontologist, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1898, assistant curator, 1899-1901, associate curator, 1902-1910, curator, 1910-1922, curator-in-chief, earth sciences, 1922-1927; professor and head of department, paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, 1927-1930. | |
| | | Title: | Letter to an unknown individual
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | n.d. | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | "Snake Creek artifacts" and age of man in North America | | | | Source: | Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Misc. Mss.) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | |
| 16 | Author: | Nuttall, Zelia, 1858-1953 | | | | | Archaeologist, Americanist. Honorary special assistant, Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; honorary professor, archaeology, National Museum, Mexico, 1908-1933; member, advisory council, department of anthropology, University of California | |
| | | Title: | Summary of Fresh Light on Ancient American Civilizations and Calendars
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1926 | | | | Extent: | 51 leaves | | | | Abstract: |
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| | | | Source: | Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Misc. Mss.) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | |
| 18 | Author: | Prichard, James Cowles, 1786-1848 | | | | | Physician, ethnologist. Practiced medicine at Bristol, England, 1810-1845; elected physician, St. Peter's Hospital, 1811; physician Bristol Infirmary, 1814-1845; commissioner in lunacy, London, 1845-1848. Prichard was a leading monogenist, president of the Ethnological Society, and published extensively on the physical history of man | |
| | | Title: | Letter to an unknown correspondent
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | n.d. | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | Anthropology of South Africa | | | | Source: | Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Misc. Mss.) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| 19 | 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: | American Indian Grammatical Categories
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | Circa 1929 | | | | Extent: | 6 leaves | | | | Abstract: |
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| | | | Source: | Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Misc. Mss.) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| 20 | Author: | Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864 | | | | | Explorer, ethnologist. U.S. Indian agent for the Lake Superior region, 1822-1836; superintendent of Indian affairs, Michigan, 1836-1841; 0ffice of Indian Affairs, Washington, D.C., 1847-1864. Schoolcraft published numerous studies of the geology, mining, and ethnology of the Great Lakes area | |
| | | Title: | Letters of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 16 November 1830 - 25 February 1836 | | | | Extent: | 3 letters | | | | Abstract: | Letters to John G. Palfrey; Messrs. Carey, Lea and Blanchard; and to the U.S. government. "Indian Tales"; publication of Indian studies; bill for preparation of study of Algic language | | | | Source: | Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Misc. Mss.) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
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