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| | 1 | Author: | Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947 | | | | | Anthropologist, psychologist, museum curator. Assistant, psychology. Indiana University, 1895-1897; instructor, psychology and education, Ohio College, 1897-1899; assistant, psychology, Columbia University, 1899-1900; instructor, pedagogy, New York University, 1901-1902; assistant, ethnology, American Museum of Natural History, 1902-1905, curator, 1905-1907, curator of anthropology, 1907-1942, editor, anthropology publications, 1907-1942, emeritus curator, 1943-1947; assistant, anthropology, Columbia University, 1903-1904, lecturer, 1904-1909; professor, Institute for Human Relations, Yale University, 1924-1940, emeritus professor, 1940-1947 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Clark Wissler and William Fenton
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1935-1947 | | | | Extent: | 13 letters | | | | Abstract: | Anthropological work; museum pieces; Seneca; Iroquois "burying the hatchet" expression; Jesse Cornplanter; publications. See also: Cornplanter, Jesse J | | | | Source: | William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 2 | 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 Clark Wissler and William Fenton
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1935-1947 | | | | Extent: | 13 letters | | | | Abstract: | Anthropological work; museum pieces; Seneca; Iroquois "burying the hatchet" expression; Jesse Cornplanter; publications. See also: Cornplanter, Jesse J | | | | Source: | William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 3 | Author: | Hrdlicka, Ales, 1869-1943 | | | | | Physical anthropologist. Research intern, Middletown State Hospital, New York, 1894-1896; associate anthropologist, New York State Pathological Institute, 1896-1899; physical anthropologist, Hyde expedition, American Museum of Natural History, 1898-1903; assistant curator, division of physical anthropology, Smithsonian Institute, 1903-1910, curator, 1910-1942; founder and editor (1918-1942), American Journal of Physical Anthropology. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Ales Hrdlicka and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 18 May 1898 - 3 October 1940 | | | | Extent: | 228 letters | | | | Abstract: | 218 letters (112 to Boas, 106 to Hrdlicka) + 10 letters to/from C.B. Davenport, W.W. Graves, F.W. Hodge, E.A. Hooton, W.A. Neilson, R. Pearl, E.R. Seligman, G.M. Stratton, S. Wurzinger. International Congress of Americanists; American Journal of Physical Anthropology; American Association of Physical Anthropologists; anthropometry; university positions; National Research Council; Galton Society; publications. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 4 | 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 Ales Hrdlicka and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 18 May 1898 - 3 October 1940 | | | | Extent: | 228 letters | | | | Abstract: | 218 letters (112 to Boas, 106 to Hrdlicka) + 10 letters to/from C.B. Davenport, W.W. Graves, F.W. Hodge, E.A. Hooton, W.A. Neilson, R. Pearl, E.R. Seligman, G.M. Stratton, S. Wurzinger. International Congress of Americanists; American Journal of Physical Anthropology; American Association of Physical Anthropologists; anthropometry; university positions; National Research Council; Galton Society; publications. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 5 | Author: | Mason, Otis, 1838-1908 | | | | | Anthropologist, museum curator. Principal, Columbian Preparatory School, Washington, D.C., 1862-1884; curator, Division of Ethnology, U.S. National Museum, 1884-1902, head curator, Department of Anthropology, 1902-1908; editor, anthropological papers, Smithsonian Institute | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Otis Mason and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 23 May 1885 - 22 October 1908 | | | | Extent: | 65 letters | | | | Abstract: | 65 letters (44 to Boas, 21 to Mason). Museum collections; American Indian material culture; anthropology and religion; Indian mortuary rituals; ethnological theory; publications | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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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 | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 6 | 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 Otis Mason and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 23 May 1885 - 22 October 1908 | | | | Extent: | 65 letters | | | | Abstract: | 65 letters (44 to Boas, 21 to Mason). Museum collections; American Indian material culture; anthropology and religion; Indian mortuary rituals; ethnological theory; publications | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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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 | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 7 | 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 Anthony F. C. Wallace and Dell Hymes
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1961-1971, 1980, 1986 | | | | Extent: | Approximately 12 letters | | | | Abstract: | Plans on conference and book on machines in anthropology; education and courses - linguistics in anthropology; employment - academic and museums; David Sapir (tenure issues); comments on Paul Wallace's "Historic Indian Paths of Pennsylvania"; publications; personal | | | | Source: | Dell H. Hymes Papers (Ms. Coll. 55) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| 8 | Author: | Hymes, Dell Hathaway, 1927- | | | | | Linguist, folklorist. Instructor to assistant professor, social anthropology, Harvard University, 1956-1960; associate professor to professor of anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1960-65; professor of anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, 1965-1971, professor of folklore and linguistics, 1972-1987, professor of education, 1975-1987, dean of education, 1975-1987. University of Virginia, Professor of anthropology and English, 1987-2000, Emeritus Professor, 2000- | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Anthony F. C. Wallace and Dell Hymes
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1961-1971, 1980, 1986 | | | | Extent: | Approximately 12 letters | | | | Abstract: | Plans on conference and book on machines in anthropology; education and courses - linguistics in anthropology; employment - academic and museums; David Sapir (tenure issues); comments on Paul Wallace's "Historic Indian Paths of Pennsylvania"; publications; personal | | | | Source: | Dell H. Hymes Papers (Ms. Coll. 55) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| 9 | 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 Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 11 December 1903 - 18 November 1927 | | | | Extent: | 116 letters | | | | Abstract: | 116 letters (58 to Boas, 58 to Mason). Handbook of American Languages; Hupa linguistics; American Archaeological Institute; American Folklore Society; 23rd International Congress of Americanists; National Research Council; Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History; museum exhibits, collections; teaching; publications | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Archaeology, prehistory | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| 10 | 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 Pliny Goddard and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 11 December 1903 - 18 November 1927 | | | | Extent: | 116 letters | | | | Abstract: | 116 letters (58 to Boas, 58 to Mason). Handbook of American Languages; Hupa linguistics; American Archaeological Institute; American Folklore Society; 23rd International Congress of Americanists; National Research Council; Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History; museum exhibits, collections; teaching; publications | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Archaeology, prehistory | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| 11 | Author: | Haddon, Alfred Cort, 1855-1940 | | | | | Anthropologist. Professor, zoology, Royal College of Science, Dublin, 1880-1901; lecturer, physical anthropology, Cambridge University, 1894-1898; university lecturer in ethnology, 1900-1909; reader in ethnology, 1909-1925. Haddon also served in various curatorial positions at the Science and Art Museum, Dublin; the Horniman Museum, London, and the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Alfred Haddon and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 7 December 1901 - 7 November 1935 | | | | Extent: | 33 letters | | | | Abstract: | 32 letters (18 to Boas, 14 to Haddon) + 1 letter to Gerda Lebbelon from Haddon. Material culture; American Museum of Natural History; 1912 Congress of Americanists; bodily changes in American immigrants; international relations of science; race and heredity; research support; publications. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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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 | 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 | |
| 12 | 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 Alfred Haddon and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 7 December 1901 - 7 November 1935 | | | | Extent: | 33 letters | | | | Abstract: | 32 letters (18 to Boas, 14 to Haddon) + 1 letter to Gerda Lebbelon from Haddon. Material culture; American Museum of Natural History; 1912 Congress of Americanists; bodily changes in American immigrants; international relations of science; race and heredity; research support; publications. | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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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 | 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 | |
| 13 | Author: | Li, Fanggui (Fang-Kuei), 1902-1987 | | | | | Linguist. Expert, Chipewyan and Athapascan languages. Professor of linguistics, University of Washington and University of Hawaii | |
| | | Title: | Fanggui Li Collection
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | Chipewyan | | | | Dates: | 1928-1982 | | | | Extent: | 1.5 linear feet | | | | Abstract: | The Fanggui Li Collection contains materials reflecting Li's career in linguistics. The collection includes ten notebooks on the Chipewyan language, 1928, and two audiotapes of Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson's oral history interview with Li, 1982 | | | | Source: | Fanggui Li Collection (Ms. Coll. 119) | | | | |
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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 | Personal matters | |
| 14 | 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: | Correspondence between Frederica De Laguna and J. Alden Mason
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 5 February 1930 - 22 April 1949 | | | | Extent: | 67 letters | | | | Abstract: | 62 letters (25 to Mason, 37 to De Laguna) + 5 letters to/from "Virginia", Mr. Jayne, Donald Dickson. American Anthropology; University of Pennsylvania Museum; Committee for International Cooperation in Anthropology; Philadelphia Anthropological Society; Franz Boas; course work at Columbia; museum work; material culture; archaeological fieldwork; professional positions; personal; publications. | | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | | |
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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 | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| 15 | 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 Frederica De Laguna and J. Alden Mason
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 5 February 1930 - 22 April 1949 | | | | Extent: | 67 letters | | | | Abstract: | 62 letters (25 to Mason, 37 to De Laguna) + 5 letters to/from "Virginia", Mr. Jayne, Donald Dickson. American Anthropology; University of Pennsylvania Museum; Committee for International Cooperation in Anthropology; Philadelphia Anthropological Society; Franz Boas; course work at Columbia; museum work; material culture; archaeological fieldwork; professional positions; personal; publications. | | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | | |
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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 | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| 16 | Author: | Barbeau, Charles Marius, 1883-1969 | | | | | Anthropologist. Anthropologist, National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, 1911-1948, consultant, 1948-1969; professor, Loyola University, 1945-1955, emeritus professor, 1955-1969; lecturer, Montreal University; co-editor, Journal of American Folklore, 1916-1969 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Charles Barbeau and William Fenton
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1939-1967 | | | | Extent: | 1 folder | | | | Abstract: | Seneca suicides/poisonous plants; language work; Christmas carol of Pere Brebeut; statement in connection with application for a grant-in-aid for Huron-Wyandot research; financial grants; Iroquois-Wyandot linguistic work; fieldwork discussion; Six Nations; museums; "International Fold Music Council Programme of Fourteenth Annual Conference", 3 September 1961; article "Marius Barbeau Dies in Canada; Leading Collector of Folk Songs"; personal. See also: Bridges, Marjorie Lismer and Series III: "Iroquois Suicides" and "Iroquois Suicide: A Study in the Stability of a Culture Pattern" | | | | 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 | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| 17 | 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 Charles Barbeau and William Fenton
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1939-1967 | | | | Extent: | 1 folder | | | | Abstract: | Seneca suicides/poisonous plants; language work; Christmas carol of Pere Brebeut; statement in connection with application for a grant-in-aid for Huron-Wyandot research; financial grants; Iroquois-Wyandot linguistic work; fieldwork discussion; Six Nations; museums; "International Fold Music Council Programme of Fourteenth Annual Conference", 3 September 1961; article "Marius Barbeau Dies in Canada; Leading Collector of Folk Songs"; personal. See also: Bridges, Marjorie Lismer and Series III: "Iroquois Suicides" and "Iroquois Suicide: A Study in the Stability of a Culture Pattern" | | | | 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 | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| 18 | Author: | Carpenter, Edmund Snow, 1922- | | | | | Archaeologist, ethnologist | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Edmund Carpenter and William Fenton
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1941-1991 | | | | Extent: | 1 folder | | | | Abstract: | Iroquoian figurines; reviews and discussion on various publications and manuscripts; Indian burials and customs (Seneca, Iroquois); archaeology fieldwork; exhibit suggestions; Wampum belts; purchasing, acquiring, auctioning cultural materials; "Christie's Tribal Art", 5 December 1979; "World without End" by Carpenter, asking for comments; peers; repatriations; Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga language; "Sotheby's Fine American Indian Art" Auction 1983 (photocopies); "False face" masks; personal. See also: Seneca-Iroquois National Museum; Museum of the American Indian; Blankenship, Roy | | | | 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 | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| 19 | 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 Edmund Carpenter and William Fenton
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1941-1991 | | | | Extent: | 1 folder | | | | Abstract: | Iroquoian figurines; reviews and discussion on various publications and manuscripts; Indian burials and customs (Seneca, Iroquois); archaeology fieldwork; exhibit suggestions; Wampum belts; purchasing, acquiring, auctioning cultural materials; "Christie's Tribal Art", 5 December 1979; "World without End" by Carpenter, asking for comments; peers; repatriations; Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga language; "Sotheby's Fine American Indian Art" Auction 1983 (photocopies); "False face" masks; personal. See also: Seneca-Iroquois National Museum; Museum of the American Indian; Blankenship, Roy | | | | 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 | 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: | 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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