| 1 | Creator: | Babcock, Barbara A., 1943- | Requires cookie* | | | | Parezo, Nancy J. | | | | Title: | Women Anthropologists and the Native American Southwest, 1880-1945
| | | | Dates: | 1986 | | | | Abstract: | Barbara Babcock (Department of English) and Nancy Parezo (American Indian Studies and Anthropology) are members of the faculty at the University of Arizona. Their oral history of women anthropologists in the southwestern United States was published in 1988 as
Daughters of the Desert : Women Anthropologists and the Native American Southwest, 1880-1980.
This related essay includes brief biographical discussions of over 30 women who worked in the southwestern United States between 1880 and 1945. It was published as "The leading edge: Women anthropologists in the native American Southwest, 1880-1945,"
El Palacio 92 (1986) | | | | Call #: | Mss.301.092.B11w | | | | Extent: | 28.0 p. | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Babcock, Barbara A., 1943- | Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1848 | Indians of North America--Southwest, New | Parezo, Nancy J. | Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1875-1941 | Reichard, Gladys Amanda, 1893-1955 | Southwest, New | Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1849-1915 | Underhill, Ruth Murray, 1884-1984 | Women anthropologists | |
| 2 | Creator: | American Council of Learned Societies. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | American Council of Learned Societies correspondence, 1926-1927
| | | | Dates: | 1926-1927 | | | | Abstract: | This small but important collection of correspondence relates to the formation of the Committee on Research in the Native American Languages, its grants, and its publications. Presented by Waldo G. Leland, 1956. | | | | Call #: | Mss.506.73.Am72co | | | | Extent: | 0.1 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Anthropological linguistics -- America. | Armstrong, E. C., (Edward Cooke), 1871-1944 | Bloomfield, Leonard, 1887-1949 | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Bryan, R. W., (Ronald W.) | Cattell, James McKeen, 1860-1944 | Haskins, Charles Homer, 1870-1937 | Hewitt, Joseph William, 1875-1938 | Indians of North America--Languages | Jacobs, Melville, 1902-1971 | Keat, Roland G. | Kroeber, A. L., (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960 | Leland, Waldo Gifford, 1879-1966 | Lester, Robert M., (Robert MacDonald), 1889-1969 | Li, Fang-kuei, 1902- | Morice, A. G., (Adrien Gabriel), 1859-1938 | Oldfather, William Abbott, 1880-1945 | Reichard, Gladys Amanda, 1893-1955 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Sturtevant, Edgar H., (Edgar Howard), 1875-1952 | Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958 | Willcox, Walter Francis, 1861-1964 | |
| 3 | Creator: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Franz Boas Professional Papers
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1860-1942 | | | | 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.
The Boas Professional Papers contain a diverse assemblage of professional correspondence, family letters, and diaries, with a valuable series of essays and lectures by Boas on both professional and political topics (democracy, race, etc.). | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B61p | | | | Extent: | 12.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom. | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American | Anthropologists -- United States. | Anthropology--Research--United States | Anthropology--United States. | Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration | Baffin Island (N.W.T.) | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Boas, Ernst P., (Ernst Philip), 1891-1955 | Boas, Marie Anna Ernestina Krackowizer, 1861-1929 | Cartozian, Tatos | Cattell, James McKeen, 1860-1944 | Deloria, Ella Cara | Diaries. | Efron, David | Eskimos--Baffin Island (N.W.T.) | Ethnology--North America | Fortune, Reo, 1903-1979 | Hunt, George | Indians of North America--Ethnology | Indians of North America--Languages | Indians of North America--Northwest Coast | Inuit | Jewish scientists | Kwakiutl Indians | Kwakiutl language | Languages | Lectures | Lowie, Robert Harry, 1883-1957 | Photographs | Refugees, Political | Reichard, Gladys Amanda, 1893-1955 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Scientific expeditions -- Arctic regions. | Scientists, Refugee | Sketches. | Socialists--United States | Tlingit Indians | Weike, Wilhelm, 1859-1917 | |
| 4 | Creator: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Alden Mason Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1904-1967 | | | | Abstract: | An archaeological anthropologist and linguist, John Alden Mason spent the majority of his career at the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. After receiving his undergraduate degree at Penn in 1907, Mason received a doctorate at Berkeley (1911) for his ethnographic work on the Salinan Indians of California, but his diverse interests in later years ran the gamut from Puerto Rican folklore to Piman languages and cultures (including Pima, Papago, Pima Bajo, Northern and Southern Tepehuan, and Tepecano), Mayan, Aztec, and Incan archaeology, and the languages of South American Indians. Mason was curator of the University Museum at Penn from 1926 until his retirement in 1958.
The Mason Papers include both in-coming and outgoing correspondence, linguistic material, notes, and photographs relating to Mason's work in the southwestern U.S., northern Mexico, and South America. Centered on the years after Mason's return to Philadelphia in 1926, the collection covers all aspects of Mason's professional life, from reports on field work to answering casual questions referred to him through the University Museum to data and analyses on Piman and other languages. The collection also contains voluminous files relating to the Mason's editorship of the
American Anthropologist (bulk: 1945-1948). Of special note are a series of class notes (1908-1910) kept by Mason for course work in ethnology, archaeology, and linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania under Edward Sapir and Frank Speck. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.M384 | | | | Extent: | 26.75 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Agogino, George | American Anthropological Association--Publishing | American Anthropological Association. | American Anthropologist | Anthropology--Societies, etc. | Archaeology | Bascom, Burton W. | Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1848 | Birge-Smith, Kaj, 1893- | Black, Fred L | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Bororo language (Brazil) | Butler, Mary | Cadzow, Donald S. | Carpenter, Edmund, 1922-2011 | Cattell, James McKeen, 1860-1944 | Chihuahua (Chihuahua, Mexico) | Cole, Fay-Cooper, 1881-1961 | Cross, Dorothy | De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004 | Diagrams. | Durango (Mexico) | Eggan, Fred, 1906-1991 | Egyptology. | Ethnology | Fejos, Paul, 1897-1963 | Gamio, Manuel, 1883-1960 | Ge language | Gelatin silver prints | Greywacz, Kathryn B. | Herskovits, Melville J. , (Melville Jean), 1895-1963 | Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956 | Indians of Mexico | Indians of Mexico--Languages | Indians of North America--Languages | Indians of North America--Southwest, New | Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Antiquities | Indians of South America--Languages | Jalisco (Mexico) | Judd , Neil Merton, 1887-1976 | Kidder, Alfred Vincent, 1885-1963 | Kroeber, A. L., (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960 | Latin-American Institute for Race and Culture Studies | Linguistics | Madeira, Percey Child, Jr. | Malali language | Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942 | Maps. | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | Mayas--Antiquities | Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 | Mexico--Antiquities | Morley, Sylvanus Griswold, 1883-1948 | Negatives | Nuttall, Zelia, -- 1858-1933. | Palenque (Chiapas, Mexico) | Photoprints | Phrenology | Pima Bajo language | Pima Indians | Pima language | Piman Indians | Piman languages | Quechua language | Radin, Paul, 1883-1959 | Recordings | Redfield, Robert, 1897-1958 | Reichard, Gladys Amanda, 1893-1955 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Satterthwaite, Linton, 1897- | Sketches. | Sonora (Mexico : State) | Southwest Indians | Speck, Frank Gouldsmith, 1881-1950 | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Symbols | Tepecano Indians | Tepehuan language | Tohono O'Odham Indians | Tohono O'Odham dialect | Tozzer, Alfred M. -- (Alfred Marston), -- 1877-1954. | University of Pennsylvania. | University of Pennsylvania. University Museum | Uto-Aztecan languages | Vaillant, George Clapp, 1901-1945 | Whorf, Benjamin Lee, 1897-1941 | Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947 | Yaqui Indians | |
| 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 | |
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