Subject | • | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork |
(151)
| | • | Archaeology, prehistory |
(66)
| | • | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture |
(143)
| | • | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment |
(198)
| | • | Financial support for research and publication |
(110)
| | • | Folklore, mythology, religion |
(71)
| | • | Linguistics and philology |
(109)
| | • | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections |
(88)
| | • | Personal matters |
(286)
| | • | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution |
(60)
| | • | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous |
(200)
| | • | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology |
(76)
|
| | 1 | Author: | Albright, William Foxwell, 1891-1971 | | | | | Archaeologist, orientalist. Acting director, American School of Oriental Research, 1920-1921, director, 1921-1929, 1933-1936; W. W. Spence professor, Semitic languages, Johns Hopkins University, 1929-1958, emeritus professor, 1958-1971; director, archaeological expedition, Palestine, 1922-1934. | |
| | | Title: | Letter to George W. Corner
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 29 June 1970 | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | Albright's research interests and hobbies | | | | Source: | American Philosophical Society Archives (A.P.S. Archives) | | | | |
View collection finding aid
| | | Subjects: | Personal matters | |
| 2 | Author: | Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933 | | | | | Archaeologist, illustrator. Artist, U.S. Survey, 1872-1874, assistant geologist, 1874-1879; assistant geologist, U.S. Geological Survey, 1880-1888; archaeologist, Bureau of American Ethnology, 1889-1894; curator of anthropology, Field Museum, Chicago, 1894-1897; curator, department of anthropology, Smithsonian Institution, 1897-1920; chief, Bureau of American Ethnology, 1902-1907; director, National Gallery of Art, 1920-1932. | |
| | | Title: | Letter to Stephen Bowers
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | n.d. | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | Personal | | | | Source: | Stephen Bowers Correspondence (B B672) | | | | |
View collection finding aid
| | | Subjects: | Personal matters | |
| 3 | Author: | Bateson, Gregory, 1904-1980 | | | | | Ethnologist, researcher in human behavior. Lecturer, Langley Porter Clinic, 1948-1950; ethnologist, Veterans Administration Hospital, Palo Alto, California, 1950-1962; research director in ethnology, Communication Research Institute, 1962-1964; associate director of research, Oceanic Institute, 1964-1969. | |
| | | Title: | Bateson Family Papers
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1910-1922 | | | | Extent: | 2 linear feet | | | | Abstract: | Letters to and from Bateson family members and friends, including William Bateson, Beatrice Durham Bateson, Martin Bateson. Gregory Bateson's early schooling, family life, travels. | | | | Source: | Bateson Family Papers (Ms. Coll. 2) | | | | |
View collection finding aid
| | | Subjects: | Personal matters | |
| 4 | Author: | Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, ethnology, American Museum of Natural History, 1926-1942, associate curator, 1942-1964, curator, 1964-1969, emeritus curator, 1969-1978, director, studies in contemporary culture, 1951-1953; adjunct professor, anthropology, Columbia University, 1954-1978 | |
| | | Title: | Letter to Leonard Carmichael
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 20 September 1971 | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | Personal | | | | Source: | Leonard Carmichael Papers (B C212) | | | | |
View collection finding aid
| | | Subjects: | Personal matters | |
| 5 | Author: | Olbrechts, Frans M., 1899-1959 | | | | | Linguist, anthropologist. Olbrechts spent a year studying under Boas at Columbia before doing linguistic fieldwork among various Indian tribes. A native of Belgium, Olbrechts worked successively as a museum curator in Brussels and as a faculty member at Ghent University | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Frans Olbrechts and J. Alden Mason
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 6 March 1937 - 10 March 1937 | | | | Extent: | 2 letters | | | | Abstract: | 2 letters (1 to Mason, 1 to Olbrechts). Personal | | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | | |
View collection finding aid
| | | Subjects: | Personal matters | |
| 6 | 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 Frans Olbrechts and J. Alden Mason
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 6 March 1937 - 10 March 1937 | | | | Extent: | 2 letters | | | | Abstract: | 2 letters (1 to Mason, 1 to Olbrechts). Personal | | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | | |
View collection finding aid
| | | Subjects: | Personal matters | |
| 7 | 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: | Reichard albums
| | | | Type: | Still Images | | | | Format: | Photographs | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1928, n.d. | | | | Extent: | 2 albums; approximately 11 prints | | | | Abstract: | Two mini-albums by Reichard with photographs of Elsie Clews Parsons, Franz Boas, and Margaret Mead among others | | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (Ms. Coll. 29) | | | | |
View collection finding aid
| | | Subjects: | Personal matters | |
| 8 | 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: | Boas Family Papers
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1862-1942 | | | | Extent: | 17 boxes (9 linear feet) | | | | Abstract: | Letters between Boas family members, including Maria, Meyer, Sophie, Toni, Hedwig, Ernst, and Anne Boas. Letters from Franz Boas have been extracted (see Franz Boas Miscellaneous Papers, B B61p). Correspondence covers family matters and Franz' personal life and development. | | | | Source: | Boas Family Papers (B B61f) | | | | |
View collection finding aid
| | | Subjects: | Personal matters | |
| 10 | 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 Ernestine Singer and J. Alden Mason
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 16 June 1934 - 10 October 1936 | | | | Extent: | 4 letters | | | | Abstract: | 4 letters (2 to Mason, 2 to Singer). Personal | | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | | |
View collection finding aid
| | | Subjects: | Personal matters | |
| 11 | Author: | Wallace, Paul A. W., 1891-1967 | | | | | Professor of English, Pennsylvania historian. English professor and department chairman, Lebanon Valley College; editor, Pennsylvania History, 1951-1957; consultant, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, historian, 1957-1965 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Paul A. W. Wallace and William Lingelbach
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 23 May 1949 - 30 October 1961 | | | | Extent: | 8 letters | | | | Abstract: | 8 letters (3 to Wallace, 5 to Lingelbach). John Heckewelder; Philadelphia and Pennsylvania history; publications; personal | | | | Source: | Wlliam Ezra Lingelbach Papers (B L635) | | | | |
View collection finding aid
| | | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| 13 | 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 Ashley Montagu
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1959, 1964 | | | | Extent: | 5 letters | | | | Abstract: | Sent "The Concept of Culture" and "The Concept of the Evolution in Cultural Anthropology" to Montagu; personal | | | | Source: | Ashley Montagu Papers (Ms. Coll. 109) | | | | |
View collection finding aid
| | | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| 14 | Author: | Montagu, Ashley, 1905-1999 | | | | | Physical anthropologist, social biologist. Research associate, British Museum of Natural History, 1926-1927; curator, physical anthropologist, Wellcome History of Medicine Museum, 1929-1930; assistant professor, anatomy, New York University, 1931-1938; associate professor, anatomy, Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, 1938-1949; chairman, department of anthropology, Rutgers University, 1949-1955; senior lecturer, VA post-graduate training program, 1946-; lecturer, New School for Social Research, 1931, 1948-1959; lecturer, Princeton University, 1978-1982 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Leslie White and Ashley Montagu
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1959, 1964 | | | | Extent: | 5 letters | | | | Abstract: | Sent "The Concept of Culture" and "The Concept of the Evolution in Cultural Anthropology" to Montagu; personal | | | | Source: | Ashley Montagu Papers (Ms. Coll. 109) | | | | |
View collection finding aid
| | | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| 15 | Author: | Goldenweiser, Alexander, 1880-1940 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, lecturer, and instructor, anthropology, Columbia University, 1910-1919; lecturer, Rand School of Social Science, 1915-1929; lecturer, New School for Social Research, New York, 1919-1926; instructor, sociology, University of Oregon Extension, Portland, 1930-1932, professor of thought and culture, 1932-1939. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Alexander Goldenweiser and Frank G. Speck
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1913-1917 | | | | Extent: | 8 items | | | | Abstract: | Reviews; lecture for Aitken's class; personal | | | | Source: | Frank Gouldsmith Speck Papers (Ms. Coll. 126) | | | | |
View collection finding aid
| | | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| 16 | Author: | Speck, Frank G., 1881-1950 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1909-1911; instructor, ethnology, University of Pennsylvania, 1909-1911, assistant professor, 1911-1925, professor, 1925-1950; lecturer, ethnology, Swarthmore College, 1923-1927; assistant editor, American Anthropologist, 1920-1937 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Alexander Goldenweiser and Frank G. Speck
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1913-1917 | | | | Extent: | 8 items | | | | Abstract: | Reviews; lecture for Aitken's class; personal | | | | Source: | Frank Gouldsmith Speck Papers (Ms. Coll. 126) | | | | |
View collection finding aid
| | | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| 17 | 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: | Letters to William E. Lingelbach
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 12 January 1958 - 6 June 1961 | | | | Extent: | 10 letters | | | | Abstract: | Sylvanus Morley; APS; publications | | | | Source: | William Ezra Lingelbach Papers (B L635) | | | | |
View collection finding aid
| | | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| 18 | Author: | Kluckhohn, Clyde, 1905-1960 | | | | | Anthropologist. Instructor, Harvard University, 1935-1937, assistant professor, 1937-1940, associate professor, 1940-1944, professor, 1946-1960, director, Russian Research Center, 1947-1954 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Clyde Kluckhohn and Leonard Carmichael
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 17 October 1955 - 9 April 1956 | | | | Extent: | 3 letters | | | | Abstract: | 3 letters (1 to Carmichael, 2 to Kluckhohn) + 1 letter to Mrs. Kluckhohn from Carmichael. Publications; personal. | | | | Source: | Leonard Carmichael Papers (B C212) | | | | |
View collection finding aid
| | | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| 19 | Author: | Carmichael, Leonard, 1898-1973 | | | | | Psychologist, association executive, Instructor, psychology, Princeton University, 1924-1926, assistant professor, 1926-1927; associate professor, Brown University, 1927-1928, professor, 1928-1936; dean, faculty of arts and science, University of Rochester, 1936-1938; president, Tufts University, 1938-1952; Secretary, Smithsonian Institution, 1953-1964; chairman, museum committee, National Geographical Society, 1964-1973. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Clyde Kluckhohn and Leonard Carmichael
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 17 October 1955 - 9 April 1956 | | | | Extent: | 3 letters | | | | Abstract: | 3 letters (1 to Carmichael, 2 to Kluckhohn) + 1 letter to Mrs. Kluckhohn from Carmichael. Publications; personal. | | | | Source: | Leonard Carmichael Papers (B C212) | | | | |
View collection finding aid
| | | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| 20 | 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: | Letter to Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 30 September 1939 | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | Publications; personal | | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (572 P25.1) | | | | |
View collection finding aid
| | | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
|
