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| | 2 | Author: | Beynon, William, 1888-1958 | | | | | Chief, field assistant and translator. Tsimshian chief; field assistant/translator to C. Barbeau; informant for Franz Boas and many other anthropologists and linguists | |
| | | Title: | William Beynon Papers
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1933-1937 | | | | Extent: | 0.5 linear feet | | | | Abstract: | The Beynon Papers includes a series of correspondence between Beynon and Franz Boas, 1933-1937, along with a small number of narratives in Tsimshian with interlinear English translations. The letters complement, but do not overlap with those in the Boas Papers | | | | Source: | William Beynon Papers (B B467) | | | | |
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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 | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| 3 | 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 Franz Boas and William Beynon
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1933-1937 | | | | Extent: | Approximately 70 letters | | | | Abstract: | Beynon worked closely with Franz Boas, providing him with an extensive series of narratives and translations from the Tsimshian. The letters complement, but do not overlap with those in the Boas Papers | | | | Source: | William Beynon Papers (B B467) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Linguistics and philology | |
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