| 1 | Creator: | Willis, William Shedrick,1921- | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | William Shedrick Willis papers, [ca. 1940-1983]
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1940-1983 | | | | Abstract: | William S. Willis Jr. (1921-1983), anthropologist and ethnohistorian, contributed significantly to the understanding of the dynamics of inter-cultural exchange in a multicultural context. After receiving his doctorate from Columbia University, he was hired as the first African American professor of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University. Upon resigning in protest from SMU in 1972, he returned to teach at Columbia University until 1975. His final years were spent studying Boasian anthropology. The collection includes correspondence, lecture notes, manuscripts of Willis' writings, and working notes. Of note, are the memos concerning his leaving Southern Methodist University and his extensive research notes on Franz Boas' views on race relations in America. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.30 | | | | Extent: | 13.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | African Americans--Study and teaching | Anthropology | Anthropology, ethnography, fieldwork | Anthropology--History | Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1848 | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Civil rights | Columbia University -- Faculty. | Columbia University -- Students. | Culture, community, organizations | Herzog, George, 1901-1983 | Kroeber, A. L., (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960 | Labor, industrialization | Linton, Ralph, 1893-1953 | Mahon,, J.K. | Mintz, Sidney Wilfred, 1922- | Plantations | Race, race relations, racism | Reconstruction | Religion, religious organizations | Segregation | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Southern Methodist University -- Faculty. | Steward, Julian Haynes, 1902-1972 | Strong, William Duncan, 1899-1962. | Sturtevant, William C. | Wagley, Charles, 1913- | Weltfish, Gene, 1902- | White, Leslie A., 1900-1972 | White, Leslie A., 1900-1975. | Willis, William Shedrick,1921- | |
| 2 | Creator: | Snyderman, George Simon, 1908- | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | George S. Snyderman Papers
| | | | Dates: | Bulk, 1945-1985 | | | | Abstract: | Trained as an anthropologist under Frank Speck at the University of Pennsylvania, the ethnohistorian George Snyderman (1908- ) spent his career studying Seneca Indian religion, history, and culture. Snyderman edited the previously unpublished diaries of Halliday Jackson and John Phillips, Quaker missionaries to the Senecas in the late 18th and early 19th century.
The Snyderman Papers includes a small volume of correspondence, along with manuscripts of works by Snyderman and colleagues, and copies of primary source materials pertaining to Seneca history. Of particular interest is his correspondence with anthropologists William N. Fenton, Merle Deardorff, and Frank Speck and with his Seneca consultant Clara Redeye and her daughter, Helen Harris, and photographs of the Allegany Senecas taken by Fenton and Speck. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.51 | | | | Extent: | 3.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Africa | Akwesasne Counselor Organization. | Allegany Reservation (N.Y.) | Anthropology, ethnography, fieldwork | Cayuga Indians | Culture, community, organizations | Eastern Woodlands Indians | Ethnohistory | Ettawageshik, Fred, 1896-1969 | Gelatin silver prints | Indians of North America--New York (State) | Iowa--Maps | Iroquois Indians--Dwellings | Iroquois dance | Maps. | Missouri--Maps | Mohawk Indians--Social life and customs | Ohio--Maps | Oneida Indians--Wisconsin | Parrish, John | Phillips, John | Photographic prints--Color | Photographs | Postcards | Seneca Indians--Missions | Seneca Indians--New York (State) | Seneca Indians--Religion | Seneca Indians--Social life and customs | Seneca masks | Snyderman, George Simon, 1908- | Society of Friends--Missions | Speck, Frank Gouldsmith, 1881-1950 | |
| 3 | Creator: | Montagu, Ashley, 1905-1999 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Ashley Montagu papers, 1927-1999
| | | | Dates: | 1927-1999 | | | | Abstract: | Ashley Montagu (1905-1999), physical anthropologist, was a prominent figure in American intellectual life. British by birth, educated at University College London and the London School of Economics, then Columbia University in New York City, Montagu was a persistent advocate for gender and racial equality. He was a tireless activist for human understanding and child welfare in particular. Departing from academe in 1955, a victim of McCarthyite hysteria, he was a remarkably prolific writer and speaker, eventually publishing more than 50 books, over 40 of them after he left the academy. Montagu continued to lobby passionately against the primacy of race in discussions of intellect and skill, and undertook works in a wide variety of fields, from evolution to parenting. Some of his most significant works include Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race (1942), the UNESCO Statement on Race (1951), Man and Aggression (1968) and his novel The Elephant Man (1971), which became the basis for an award winning play and movie. Ashley Montagu’s contributions to the spread of scientific knowledge and human understanding make him one of the most important intellectuals of the 20th century. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.109 | | | | Extent: | 57.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abbie,, Andrew Arthur, 1905-1976 | Anthropology | Anthropology, ethnography, fieldwork | Askenasy, Hans, 1930- | Benton, William, 1900-1973 | Biology, genetics, eugenics | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Briffault, Robert | Buhler, Charlotte, 1983-1974 | Carpenter, Edmund, 1922-2011 | Clark, Wilfrid E. Le Gros, (Wilfrid Edward Le Gros), 1895-1971 | Dobzhansky, Theodosius Grigorievich, 1900-1975 | Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 | Eisler, Riane Tennenhaus | Elkin, A. P. (Adolphus Peter), 1891-1979 | Evans, Bergen, 1904-1978 | Freeman, Derek | Fromm, Erich,1900-1980 | Gender | Goldstein, Marcus Solomon | Gould, Stephen Jay | Keith, Arthur, Sir, 1866-1955 | Kluckhohn, Clyde, 1905-1960 | La Barre, Weston, 1911-1996 | Matson, Floyd W. | McLuhan, Marshall, 1911-1980 | Meade, Margaret, 1901-1978 | Montagu, Ashley, 1905-1999 | Oakley, Kenneth Page, 1911 | Race, race relations, racism | Race. | Sarton, George, 1884-1956 | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Social inequality | Sorokin, Pitirim Aleksandrovich, 1889-1968 | Yerkes, Robert Mearns, 1876-1956 | |
| 4 | Creator: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Franz Boas Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1862-1942 | | | | Abstract: | During the half century leading up to the Second World War, Franz Boas helped to define academic anthropology in the United States. Trained as a geographer at the University of Heidelberg, Boas worked initially on the Inuit of Baffin Island and subsequently on the cultures of the Indians of the Northwest Pacific Coast, becoming a leading figure in American anthropology by the first decade of the twentieth century. As Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, Boas made significant theoretical contributions to ethnology, linguistics, and physical anthropology, helping to ingrain the four fields approach in his discipline and introducing the concept of cultural relativism into wide currency. He was, as well, a committed Socialist and an ardent opponent of both racism and fascism.
This collection includes correspondence that Boas carried on with his colleagues in anthropology, as well as with those in the other social sciences and sciences. This correspondence is rich as a source for twentieth-century historians interested in "radical" social causes, since Boas was a socialist and an outspoken voice for progressive social causes. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B61 | | | | Extent: | 59.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Albumen prints | Andrews, H.A. | Anthropologists -- United States. | Anthropology, ethnography, fieldwork | Anthropology--Research--United States | Anthropology--United States--History. | Anthropology--United States. | Arctic Indians | Beckwith, Martha Warren, 1871-1959 | Beynon, William, 1888-1958 | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Boas, Ernst P., (Ernst Philip), 1891-1955 | Bogoras, Waldemar, 1865-1936 | Bowditch, Charles P., (Charles Pickering), 1842-1921 | Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934 | Bumpus, Hermon Carey, 1862-1943 | Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947 | Cabinet cards | Cattell, James McKeen, 1860-1944 | Chávez, Ezequiel Adeodato, 1868-1946 | Crane, M. E. | Dixon , Roland Burrage, 1875-1934 | Engerrand, George C., 1877-1961 | Ethnology--North America | Fackenthal, Frank Diehl, 1883-1968 | Franchtenberg, Leo Joachim, 1883-1930 | Gelatin silver prints | Germanistic Society of America | Gordon, George Byron, 1911- | Heye, George G., (George Gustav), 1874-1957 | Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956 | Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933 | Hrdlicka, Ales, 1869-1943 | Indians of North America--British Columbia | Indians of North America--Ethnology | Indians of North America--Languages | Indians of North America--Northwest Coast | Indians of North America--Nunavut | Inuit | Jewish scientists | Jochelson, Waldemar, 1855-1937 | Keppel, Frederick P., (Frederick Paul), 1875-1943 | Kroeber, A. L., (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960 | Kwakiutl Indians | Laufer , Berthold, 1874-1934 | Maps | McGee, W. J., 1853-1912 | Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938 | Negatives | Northwest Coast Indians | Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1875-1941 | Photomechanical prints | Postcards | Race, race relations, racism | Radin, Paul, 1883-1959 | Refugees, Political | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Sargent, H. E. | Scientists, Refugee | Seler, Eduard | Sketches. | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Socialists--United States | Steinen, Karl von den, 1855-1929 | Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958 | Teit, James Alexander, 1864-1922 | Tlingit Indians | Tozzer, Alfred M. -- (Alfred Marston), -- 1877-1954. | Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947 | Woodbridge, Frederick James Eugene, 1867-1940 | |
| 5 | Creator: | Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1875-1941 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1880-1980 | | | | Abstract: | Elsie Clews Parsons (1875-1941) was trained as a sociologist at Columbia University, but made her greatest achievements in the fields of anthropology and folklore. Parsons' early works in the field of sociology dealt primarily with gender roles, conventions of society, and the effect of society's pressures on the individual. After a trip to the American Southwest with her husband in 1910, Parsons' interests turned to anthropology. She began making field trips to Arizona and New Mexico and, under the influence of her friend Franz Boas, Parsons recorded in meticulous detail data on social organization, religious practices, and folklore of the Southwest Indians. Concurrently, Parsons conducted research in folklore, concentrating on folk tales of Afro-Americans and Caribbean peoples. She was active in a number of professional associations and was the associate editor of the
Journal of American Folklore from 1918 until her death.
The Parsons Papers were acquired as two separate accessions and remains organized in two distinct subcollections. Subcollection I (572 P35), acquired in 1949, contains approximately 12 linear feet of materials focused on Parsons' career in anthropology. Subcollection II, acquired in 1985, consists of 26.25 linear feet of materials divided into ten series, covering a larger scope of Parsons' life, including family and personal correspondence. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.29 | | | | Extent: | 38.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Anthropological Association. | American Folklore Society. | Anthropology, ethnography, fieldwork | Balch, Ernesto | Beals, Ralph L. (Ralph Leon), 1901-1985 | Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1848 | Birth control. | Blacks--Jamaica--Folklore | Boardman, Ruth | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Bourne, Randolph | Bovey, Charles | Brice, Kirkpatrick | Bunzel, Ruth Leah, 1898- | Camody, Mary | Cole, Fay-Cooper, 1881-1961 | Culture, community, organizations | Day, Clarence | Eastman, Max, 1883-1969 | Eggan, Fred, 1906-1991 | Feminism. | Fitz, Reginald | Folklore | Folklore--Jamaica | Galton, Francis, Sir, 1822-1911 | Gelatin silver prints | Goddard, Pliny Earle, 1869-1928 | Goldenweiser, Alexander, 1880-1940 | Greece--Description and travel--20th century | Hackett, Francis | Hallowell, A. Irving , (Alfred Irving), 1892-1974 | Hare, Peter | Herskovits, Melville J. , (Melville Jean), 1895-1963 | Hopi Indians | Hughes, Larry | Illustrations. | Indians of Central America | Indians of Mexico | Indians of North America--Arizona | Indians of North America--British Columbia | Indians of North America--New Mexico | Indians of South America--Ecuador | Isleta Indians | Johnson, Alvin | Kidder, Alfred Vincent, 1885-1963 | Kroeber, A. L., (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960 | Kwakiutl Indians | La Farge, G. Grant | La Farge, Oliver, 1901-1963 | Law, George | Lewis, Margaret | Looking Elk, Albert | Lowie, Robert Harry, 1883-1957 | Luhan, Mabel Dodge | Nitrate negatives | Opler, Morris Edward, 1907-1996 | Pacificism | Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1875-1941 | Parsons, John E. | Peace movements--20th century | Phillipine Islands--Description and travel--20th century | Pueblo Indians | Quechua Indians | Redfield, Robert, 1897-1958 | Reichard, Gladys Amanda, 1893-1955 | Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Sketches. | Southwest Indians | Spier, Leslie | Stephen, Alexander M. | Taft, William Howard, 1857-1930 | Taos Indians | Tewa Indians | Thompson, Stith | Titiev, Morris | True, Clara | University of California, Berkeley. Anthropology Department. | Watercolors | White, Leslie A. | World War, 1914-1918 | Young, George | Zuni Indians | |
| 6 | Creator: | Hymes, Dell H. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Dell H. Hymes Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1947-1992 | | | | Abstract: | Dell Hymes' doctoral research on Kathlamet Chinook (Indiana University, 1955) grew into a lifelong interest in the relationship between ethnography and linguistics. Following academic appointments at Harvard University (1955-1960) and the University of California, Berkley (1960-1965), Hymes joined the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania in 1965. During twenty-two years tenure at Penn he was a professor of folklore, linguistics, sociology and education. In 1975, he was promoted to Dean of the Graduate School of Education (1975-1987). A principal proponent of the emergent field of sociolinguistics, his most influential works include
Reinventing Anthropology and
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The Hymes papers cover all aspects of Dell Hymes' professional life, though concentrated on his years at the University of Pennsylvania, his presidencies of the American Association of Anthropology and the Linguistic Society of America, and his editorship of the journal
Language in Society. Of particular interest is his rich correspondence with colleagues and students on linguistic issues. The papers reflect Hymes' interests in the history of linguistics and anthropology, Native American languages, and his comparative ethnographies of communication. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.55 | | | | Extent: | 70.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Aberle, David F., 1918- | American Academy of Arts and Sciences. | American Anthropological Association. | American Association of Applied Linguistics | American Folklore Society. | Anthropologists -- United States. | Anthropology, ethnography, fieldwork | Austerlitz, Robert, 1923-1994 | Basso, Keith, 1940- | Bauman, Richard | Ben-Amos, Dan | Bennett, Ruth S. | Bernstein, Basil | Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Burke, Kenneth,1897-1993 | Cambridge University Press | Cathlamet dialect | Cazden, Courtney, 1925- | Chinookan languages | Chomsky, Noam | Cowgill, George L. | Creole dialects | Douglas, Mary, 1921- | Dozier, Edward, 1916-1971 | Driver, Harold | Duranti, Alessandro, 1950- | Durbin, Marshall | Dyk, Walter, 1899-1972 | Embree, Lester | Frake, Charles O. | French, David H. | Fromm, Erich,1900-1980 | Goffman, Erving | Goodenough, Ward H., 1919- | Gregorian, Vartan, 1934- | Gumperz, John,1922- | Haas, Mary R. , (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 | Harris , Zellig S., (Zellig Sabbettai), 1909- | Harris, Marvin, 1927-2001 | Hiz, Henry T. | Hockett, Charles, 1916- | Hoenigswald, Henry M., 1915-2003 | Hoijer, Harry, 1904-1976 | Hymes, Dell H. | Indians of North America--Ethnology | Indians of North America--Languages | Indians of North America--Northwest Coast | Indians of North America--Oregon | Koerner, E.F. Konrad, | Kroeber, A. L., (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960 | Kroeber, Theodora | Labov, William, 1927- | Language in Society | Language, linguistics | Languages, Mixed | Lévi-Strauss, Claude | Linguistic Society of America. | Linguistics | Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn | Martin, Paul S., 1899-1974 | McDermott, Ray | Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 | Mouton Publishers | Nader, Laura, 1930- | Neustupny, Jiri | Nida, Eugene A. | Pidgin languages | Race, race relations, racism | Rigsby, Bruce Joseph, 1937- | Sankoff, Gillian | Sapir, J. David | Sapir, Philip | Schneider, David M., 1918-1995 | Scholte, Bob, 1902-1983 | Sebeok, Thomas A., 1920-2001 | Shahaptian languages | Shuy, Roger W. | Snyder, Gary, 1930- | Social Science Research Council. Institute in Law and Social Relations . | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Szwed, John F. | Tax, Sol, 1907-1995 | Tedlock, Dennis, 1939- | Toelken, Barre, 1935- | University of Pennsylvania Press | University of Pennsylvania-Annenberg School of Communication | University of Pennsylvania-Department of Anthropology | University of Pennsylvania-Department of Folklore & Folklife | University of Pennsylvania-Department of Linguistics | University of Pennsylvania-Department of Sociology | University of Pennsylvania-Graduate School of Education | University of Pennsylvania. | Voegelin, C.F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Wallace, Anthony F. C., 1923- | Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. | Worth, Sol, 1922-1977 | |
| 7 | Creator: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society
| | | | Dates: | 1882-1958 | | | | Abstract: | Formed in 1927 under the initiative of Franz Boas, Edward Sapir, and other academic linguists, the Committee on Native American Languages of the American Council of Learned Societies was charged with documenting the endangered languages of indigenous Americans.
The Collection of the American Council of Learned Socities Committee of Native American Languages is one of the largest and most significant primary resources for study of the indigenous languages of North America. Beginning with the creation of the Committee in 1927, and periodically added to since by the APS, the collection has grown to over 80 linear feet of material representing at least 166 languages and dialects from the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The formats range from field notes and ethnographic texts to slip files, vocabularies, lexica, and grammars, and dozens of linguists and Native consultants are represented. Although most of the material was collected in the 1920s and 1930s, a signficant number of items have been added that extends the range of dates represented both backward and forward. | | | | Call #: | Mss.497.3.B63c | | | | Extent: | 80.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Achumawi language | African Americans--Florida | African Americans--Folklore | African Americans--West Virginia | Anthropology, ethnography, fieldwork | Athapascan languages | Atsugewi language | Autobiography | Banister, John, Jr. | Bella Coola language | Benin--History | Chehalis language | Cherokee language | Chimakum language | Chinese language | Chiricahua language | Christianity--Africa | Chukchi--History | Clothing and dress--Middle East | Cree language | Culture, community, organizations | Cyanotypes | Dakota language | Dictionaries. | Drawings. | Ethnographic texts | Ethnology--Africa | Ethnology--Russia | Ethnology--United States | Face painting | Field notes. | Fijians--Social life and customs | Folk music--Puerto Rico | Folklore | Folklore--Africa | Folklore--British Columbia | Folklore--Florida | Folklore--Uganda | Gelatin silver prints | Geological Survey of Canada. | Group portraits | Haida language | Heiltsuk Indians | Hoijer, Harry, 1904-1976 | Hopi language | Hupa language | Illustrations. | Indians of North America--Alaska | Indians of North America--British Columbia | Indians of North America--Languages | Inuktitut language | Jenness, Diamond, 1886-1969 | Jews, Ethiopian | Kalapuya language | Kalibala, Ernest B. | Kalispel language | Kathlamet language | Kidder, Alfred Vincent, 1885-1963 | Kutenai language | Kwakiutl language | Laguna dialect | Lillooet language | Linguistics | Maps. | Mayan languages | Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938 | Mukasa, Ham, 1871-1956 | Nahuatl language | Nass language | Navajo language | Nez Percé language | Nitinat language | Nootka Indians | Nootka language | Northwest Coast Indians | Ntlakyapamuk language | Photographs | Photomechanical prints | Plantations | Pomo language | Quileute Indians | Quileute language | Religion, religious organizations | Salish Indians | Salishan languages | Shasta language | Sketches. | Slip files | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Sturtevant, Edgar Howard, 1875-1952 | Tarahumara language | Tarascan language | Tlingit language | Tolowa language | Tsimshian language | Tunica language | Twi (African people) | United States -- Emigration and immigration. | Volga River Region (Russia)--History | Wailaki language | Warren, John | Watercolors | Winnebago language | Wintu language | Word lists | Yana language | Zapotec language | |
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