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| | 1 | Author: | Couch, Jonathan, 1789-1870 | | | | | British physician, naturalist | |
| | | Title: | Jonathan Couch Papers
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1839-1891 | | | | Extent: | 1 linear foot | | | | Abstract: | Couch's papers deal mostly with natural history, but some correspondence and mss. are on the history of language; myth and superstition; and the physical history of man. Included here are manuscripts on "Charms", "Language", "The Cross Buns of Easter", "On the History and Development of Man", and the "Prehistoric in Cornwall." | | | | Source: | Jonathan Couch Papers (B C831) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| 2 | 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: | An Arctic Summer
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1930 | | | | Extent: | 345 leaves | | | | Abstract: | Greenland, archaeology | | | | Source: | American Philosophical Society. Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (497.3 Am4 no.23) | | | | |
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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 | |
| 3 | 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: | American Indian Material
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Microfilm | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | Circa 1962 | | | | Extent: | 1 reel | | | | Abstract: | Atna Indian materials | | | | Source: | American Indian Material (Film 1119) | | | | |
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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 | |
| 4 | 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 | |
| 5 | 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 of the Copper River Valley
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Microfilm | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1960, 1968 | | | | Extent: | 2 reels | | | | Abstract: | Atna Indian materials. De Laguna and M.F. Guedon. | | | | Source: | Atna of the Copper River Valley (Film 1278) | | | | |
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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 | |
| 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 Texts Recorded in Copper Center, Alaska
| | | | Type: | Sound items | | | | Format: | Recordings | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1958 | | | | Extent: | 8 reels | | | | Abstract: | Atna Indian materials. De Laguna and C. McClellan | | | | Source: | Atna Texts Recorded in Copper Center, Alaska (Rec. 31) | | | | |
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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: | 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: | Materials Collected and Recorded at Copper Center, Alaska
| | | | Type: | Sound items | | | | Format: | Recordings | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1968 | | | | Extent: | 17 reels | | | | Abstract: | Atna Indian materials | | | | Source: | Materials Collected and Recorded at Copper Center, Alaska (Rec. 68) | | | | |
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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 | |
| 8 | 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: | Materials Recorded at Copper Center, Alaska
| | | | Type: | Sound items | | | | Format: | Recordings | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1958 | | | | Extent: | 8 reels | | | | Abstract: | Atna Indian materials | | | | Source: | Materials Recorded at Copper Center, Alaska (Rec. 41) | | | | |
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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 | |
| 9 | 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: | Class Notes, John Alden Mason Papers
| | | | Type: | Series | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1904-1916 | | | | Extent: | 16 items | | | | Abstract: | Notes on anthropology, archaeology, ethnology, linguistics, and phonetics taken while a student at the University of Pennsylvania | | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384, Series V) | | | | |
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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 | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| 10 | Author: | Levi-Strauss, Claude, 1908- | | | | | Anthropologist. Professor, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1935-1938; visiting professor New School for Social Research, 1941-1945; cultural counselor French Embassy, 1946-1947; associate curator Musee de l'Homme, 1948-1949; director Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, 1950-1982; professor College de Franc, 1959-1982 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Claude Levi-Strauss and William Fenton
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1967-1976 | | | | Extent: | Approximately 20 letters | | | | Abstract: | Basketry; Wampum belts; academic employment; fieldwork; Seneca "Feast of Dreams"; discussion of publications; Indian ceremonies; Six Nations; Indian mythology; report on work of Urzsula Chodowiec's dissertation on Iroquois Mythology; personal | | | | Source: | William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) | | | | |
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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 | Folklore, mythology, religion | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| 11 | 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 Claude Levi-Strauss and William Fenton
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1967-1976 | | | | Extent: | Approximately 20 letters | | | | Abstract: | Basketry; Wampum belts; academic employment; fieldwork; Seneca "Feast of Dreams"; discussion of publications; Indian ceremonies; Six Nations; Indian mythology; report on work of Urzsula Chodowiec's dissertation on Iroquois Mythology; personal | | | | Source: | William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) | | | | |
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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 | Folklore, mythology, religion | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| 12 | 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 | |
| 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 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 | |
| 14 | Author: | Gillespie, John D., circa 1930- | | | | | Ethnologist | |
| | | Title: | Miscellaneous collection on the American Indian
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | Circa 1949-1961 | | | | Extent: | 1 linear foot (approximately 365 items, 75 photographs, 75 newspaper clippings, 30 printed items) | | | | Abstract: | Materials deal primarily with the Cherokee, but there are also some papers covering the Seminoles, Iroquois, and Sioux. Music; dance; linguistics; material culture; folklore; archaeology; ceremonial behavior. Correspondents include George Herzog, A.R. Kelly, Gertrude Ruskin, W.W. Keeler, Floyd Lounsbury, Anthony Wallace, Ira Padelford, Gertrude Kurath, and others. | | | | Source: | Miscellaneous collection on the American Indian (497.3 G41) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| 15 | Author: | Bell, Robert, 1841-1917 | | | | | Canadian geologist, explorer, folklorist. Assistant director, Geological Survey of Canada, 1877-1890, chief geologist, 1890-1891, director, 1901-1906. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Robert Bell and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1 March 1886 - 25 June 1908 | | | | Extent: | 51 letters | | | | Abstract: | 51 letters. (45 to Boas, 6 to Bell). Boas berth on expedition to Hudson Bay (1886); Indian folklore and craniology; museum collections; fieldwork in Baffinland and British Columbia; development of School of American Archaeology in Mexico. | | | | 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 | Folklore, mythology, religion | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Personal matters | |
| 16 | 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 Robert Bell and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1 March 1886 - 25 June 1908 | | | | Extent: | 51 letters | | | | Abstract: | 51 letters. (45 to Boas, 6 to Bell). Boas berth on expedition to Hudson Bay (1886); Indian folklore and craniology; museum collections; fieldwork in Baffinland and British Columbia; development of School of American Archaeology in Mexico. | | | | 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 | Folklore, mythology, religion | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | 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 Henry Allen Moe
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1941-1950 | | | | Extent: | 17 file envelopes | | | | Abstract: | Kroeber was frequently in contact with Moe regarding Guggenheim Foundation support of linguistic, ethnological, archaeological, and human biological research in South and Central America. The Moe papers contain extensive reports by Kroeber on Guggenheim projects and his critique of the scientific and personal character of fellowship applicants. This is an interesting source for study of Kroeber's opinions concerning the work of his scientific peers in the 1940s. | | | | Source: | Henry Allen Moe Papers (B M722) | | | | |
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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 | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Financial support for research and publication | |
| 18 | Author: | Moe, Henry Allen, 1894-1975 | | | | | Foundation executive. Editorial staff, St. Paul Dispatch and Pioneer Press, 1916-1917; Hulme lecturer in law, Oxford University, 1923-1924; law lecturer, Columbia University, 1927-1929; first secretary, secretary general, and president, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1925-1963; chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1965-1966 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Alfred Kroeber and Henry Allen Moe
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1941-1950 | | | | Extent: | 17 file envelopes | | | | Abstract: | Kroeber was frequently in contact with Moe regarding Guggenheim Foundation support of linguistic, ethnological, archaeological, and human biological research in South and Central America. The Moe papers contain extensive reports by Kroeber on Guggenheim projects and his critique of the scientific and personal character of fellowship applicants. This is an interesting source for study of Kroeber's opinions concerning the work of his scientific peers in the 1940s. | | | | Source: | Henry Allen Moe Papers (B M722) | | | | |
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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 | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Financial support for research and publication | |
| 19 | 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 J. Alden Mason and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 30 November 1903 - 7 November 1940 | | | | Extent: | 240 letters | | | | Abstract: | 236 letters (152 to Boas, 84 to Mason) + 4 letters to/from A.M. Espinosa, H.H. Roberts, Wilbur K. Thomas. Archaeology; prehistory; fieldwork; linguistics; folklore; Puerto Rico Insular Survey; research funding; material culture; professional positions; 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 | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| 20 | 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 J. Alden Mason and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 30 November 1903 - 7 November 1940 | | | | Extent: | 240 letters | | | | Abstract: | 236 letters (152 to Boas, 84 to Mason) + 4 letters to/from A.M. Espinosa, H.H. Roberts, Wilbur K. Thomas. Archaeology; prehistory; fieldwork; linguistics; folklore; Puerto Rico Insular Survey; research funding; material culture; professional positions; 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 | 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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