Leslie A. White Papers 1921-1974

Montagu, Ashley, 1905-1999

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Chairman, anthropology department, Rutgers University. From the description of Correspondence to Maxwell Struthers Burt, 1943. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122526480 Ashley Montagu (1905-1999) was a British anthropologist and social biologist, perhaps best known for his critical analysis of the question of race. Montague Francis Ashley Montagu was born Israel Ehrenberg in London, England on June 28, 1905. He studied at th...

Hayakawa, S. I. (Samuel Ichiyé), 1906-1992

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Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa (July 18, 1906 – February 27, 1992) was a Canadian-born American academic and politician. A linguist, psychologist, semanticist, teacher, professor, and author by trade, he served as president of San Francisco State University from 1968 to 1973 and then as U.S. Senator from California from 1977 to 1983. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Hayakawa was educated in the public schools of Calgary, Alberta, and Winnipeg, Manitoba before earning a B.A. from the University of...

Sagan, Carl, 1934-1996

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Carl Sagan was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator. His best known scientific contribution is research on extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by radiation. Sagan assembled the first physical messages sent into space: the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record, universal messages that could potentially be understood by any extra...

Mencken, H.L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956

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Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Mencken, known as the "Sage of Baltimore", is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century. Mencken worked as a reporter and drama critic for the Baltimore Morning Herald from 1899 to 1906. From 190...

Kidder, Alfred Vincent, 1885-1963

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Kidder was an archaeologist who excavated sites in the Southwest. He became a member of the Advisory Board for the Laboratory of Anthropology in 1927. From the description of Alfred Vincent Kidder Pecos papers, 1915-1935. (Museum of New Mexico Library). WorldCat record id: 37992640 Kidder was an archaeologist who excavated sites in the southwest. He became a member of the Advisory Board for the Laboratory of Anthropology in 1927. From the description of Alfred Vi...

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942

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Born in Minden, Germany, on July 8, 1858, the anthropologist Franz Boas was the son of the merchant Meier Boas and his wife, Sophie Meyer. Raised in the radical and tradition of German Judaism, Franz's youth was steeped in politically liberal beliefs and a largely secular outlook that he carried with him from university through his emigration to the United States. At the universities of Heidelberg and Bonn, Boas studied physics and geography before completin...

University of Michigan. Department of Anthropology

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Established in 1929, the University of Michigan Department of Anthropology provides instruction in ethnology, archaeology, biological anthropology, and linguistics, and is consistently ranked among the top academic programs in anthropology in the country. From the description of Dept. of Anthropology (University of Michigan) records, 1927-1983. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 85778631 The University of Michigan Department of Anthropology was establ...

Adams, Randolph Greenfield, 1892-1951

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Randolph Greenfield Adams was an Assistant Professor in History at Duke University from 1921-1923. From the description of Randolph Greenfield Adams Papers, undated. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 227206656 Director of William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan. From the description of Randolph G. Adams papers, 1923-1950. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 80292571 From the description of Randolph G. Adams papers...

Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990

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American writer. From the description of Correspondence with Alfred S. Dashiell, 1931-1940. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 51846130 Carl Zigrosser and Lewis Mumford were life-long friends with shared interests in the arts, society and politics. From the description of Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1925-1971, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155902319 Sir Patrick Geddes was a Scottish biologist, sociologi...

Spier, Leslie, 1893-1961

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Anthropologist. From the description of Leslie Spier papers, 1924-1961. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 80971494 Anthropologist; b. Leslie Ephraim Spier. From the description of Leslie Spier collection, 1918-1931. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70922393 Leslie Spier (December 13, 1893 – December 3, 1961) studied the Klamath Indians as well as Plains Indians and Indians of the Southwest during his career as an anthro...

Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1948

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Anthropologist. Vassar College Class of 1909. From the description of Papers, 1905-1948. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155518646 Anthropologist. Vassar College Class of 1909. From the description of Ruth Fulton Benedict papers, 1905-1948. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 51576400 ...

Cole, Fay-Cooper, 1881-

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Childe, V. Gordon (Vere Gordon), 1892-1957

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Berle, Adolf A., Jr., 1895-1971

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George Washington Corner worked as an anatomist, endocrinologist, and medical historian. From the guide to the George Washington Corner papers, 1889-1981, 1903-1982, (American Philosophical Society) Adolf Augustus Berle (1895-1971) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the second of four children of Dr. Adolf Augustus and Mary Augusta (Wright) Berle. He graduated from Harvard College in 1913, after majoring in history, and received his M.A, degree the following year. In 1916 at...

Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001085.0x000173 German author. From the description of Land of good will : typewritten article signed, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270609625 From the description of Autograph letter signed with initials : Bad Tölz, to Herr Fischer, his publisher, 1909 Aug. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270607913 From the description...

Goldenweiser, Alexander, 1880-1940

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McLuhan, Marshall, 1911-

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Osgood, Cornelius, 1905-1985

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Cornelius Osgood was born in Winchester, Massachusetts, on March 20, 1905. He attended the University of Chicago, attaining the degree of Ph.B. in 1927 and Ph.D. in 1930. He married Harriett Ellen Keeney on September 25, 1930. The couple had two daughters before Harriett's death in 1962. On December 23, 1963, Osgood remarried, to Soo Sui-ling. Osgood was an ethnologist who worked as curator at various museums throughout the country, including the Yale Peabody Museum. He also authored several boo...

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 1908-2009

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Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. Nov. 28, 1908, Brussels, Blegium–d. Oct. 30 2009, Paris, France) grew up in Paris and studied law and philosophy at the Sorbonne. In 1935, was part of a French cultural mission to Brazil as a visiting professor of sociology at the University of São Paulo while his then wife, Dina. Together they conducted research into the Mato Grosso and the Amazon Rainforest. Lévi-Strauss returned to France in 1939. He was employed at a lycée in Montpellier but was dismissed under the Vi...

Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1874-1941

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Elsie Clews Parsons was a sociologist, anthropologist, and folklorist. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1882]-1978. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122380114 From the description of Isleta sketches, [n.d.]. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 86138573 From the description of Papers, 1835-1944. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122589249 Anthropologist. From t...

American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Edmund W. Sinnott was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at the time of this correspondence. Walter G. Berl was an editor for the Association. From the description of Letters, 1948-1971, to Lewis Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155878457 ...

American anthropological association

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White, Mary P.

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University of Michigan. Museum of Anthropology.

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Established in 1922, the Museum of Anthropology at the University of Michigan is one of the major research facilities in the United States for the collection and study of archaeological and ethnological materials. From the description of Museum of Anthropology (University of Michigan) records, 1894-1990. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 79108231 The Latin American Ethnohistory Library was created by Joyce Marcus, and supplemented with funding from D...

Linton, Ralph, 1893-1953

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Humphrey, Norman Daymond

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University of Michigan.

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Outside of museum holdings, no comprehensive survey and inventory of campus artwork had been attempted since 1937. With support from the Michigan Commission on Art in Public Places, 1,076 items were inventoried during 1988-1990. Additional inventory work was undertaken in 1997-1998 for risk management purposed, but generated little new information. From the description of Inventory of University of Michigan-owned art, 1988-1990, 1997-1998. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id...

Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939

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American anthropologist and linguist. From the description of Yana field notes: holographs, 1907. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 227536942 ...

Vandenberg, Arthur H. (Arthur Hendrick), 1907-1968

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Bain, Read, 1892-

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Professor of sociology at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio; vice-president, 1944, of the American Sociological Society; editor-in-chief, 1938-1942, of the A̲m̲e̲r̲i̲c̲a̲n̲ ̲S̲o̲c̲i̲o̲l̲o̲g̲i̲c̲a̲l̲ ̲R̲e̲v̲i̲e̲w̲; president of the Sociological Research Association, 1945; and poetry editor of T̲h̲e̲ ̲H̲u̲m̲a̲n̲i̲s̲t̲, 1953-1957. From the description of Read Bain papers, 1893-1972. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34418341 ...

American folklore society

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Established in 1888 to further the discipline of folklore, the AFS's primary emphasis is directed toward the publication of a journal and the convening of an annual convention. From the description of American Folklore Society records, 1890-9999. (Utah State University). WorldCat record id: 43959320 Brinton joined the American Folklore Society in 1889 and served as its president. From the description of Correspondence to Daniel Garrison Brinton, 1894. (University...

Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978

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American anthropologist. From the description of Letter 1968 June 12. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 38156541 Anthropologist. From the description of Collection re Margaret Mead, 1978-1979. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71131863 Anthropologist, author, and educator. From the description of Margaret Mead papers and South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, 1838-1996 (bulk 1911-1978). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068917 M...

Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940

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Lev Davidovich Bronstein[a] (7 November [O.S. 26 October] 1879 – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky, was a Ukrainian revolutionary, political theorist and politician. Ideologically a communist, he developed a variant of Marxism known as Trotskyism. Born to a wealthy Ukrainian-Jewish family in Yanovka (now Bereslavka), Trotsky embraced Marxism after moving to Nikolayev in 1896. In 1898, he was arrested for revolutionary activities and subsequently exiled to Siberia. He escaped from ...

Beard, Charles Austin, 1874-1948

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American historian and educator From the guide to the Charles Austin Beard letters, undated, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Historian, political scientist. From the description of Austin Charles Beard letters, 1929-1939. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 465279213 Charles Austin Beard was born in 1874 and died in 1948. He was a political science professor and historian at Columbia Univer...

San Francisco State College

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Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960

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Alfred L. Kroeber was an anthropologist. He taught anthropology at the University of California, 1901-1946, and was curator, 1908-1925, and director, 1925-1946, of the University's anthropological museum. From the description of Yana vocabulary and grammatical notes, 1911-1912. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 86165433 Anthropologist. From the description of Anthropology : mss., 1948. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 85185772 A...

Reuther, Walter, 1907-1970

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Kluckhohn, Clyde, 1905-1960

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Anthropologist and author. From the description of Papers of Clyde Kluckhohn, 1945-1948. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 233131951 Kluckhohn taught anthropology at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Clyde Kay Maben Kluckhohn, 1930-1960 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973102 Ashley Montagu, born Israel Ehrenberg on June 28, 1905, was a British-American anthropologist, specializing in the ar...

Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881

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Anthropologist. From the description of Lewis Henry Morgan, 1818-1891 papers, ca. 1839-ca. 1885. (University of Rochester). WorldCat record id: 122519515 Lewis Henry Morgan was an ethnologist and anthropologist. From the description of Journal and correspondence, 1845-1876. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122632850 From the guide to the Lewis Henry Morgan journal and correspondence, 1845-1876, 1845-1876, (American Philosophi...

White, Leslie A., 1900-1975

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Professor of anthropology at University of Michigan, chairman of the anthropology department, 1932-1957 and 1959, and student of the culture of the Pueblo Indians of the southwestern United States, and of the career of early American anthropologist, Lewis H. Morgan. From the description of Leslie A. White papers, 1921-1974. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34423619 Leslie White was an influential American anthropologist and anthropological theorist ...

Barnes, Harry Elmer, 1889-1968

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Barnes taught economics, sociology and history at various colleges and universities, including Harvard, Columbia, Smith, Amherst, Temple, Colorado, and the New School for Social Research from 1918-1955. He was with the editorial department of Scripps-Howard newspapers from 1929-1940 and was a consultant on criminology and penology to federal and state government agencies. A noted revisionist historian, Barnes questioned conventional views of orthodox religion and the origins of World War I, and ...

Connable, Alfred B. (Alfred Barnes), 1904-

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Republican regent of the University of Michigan. From the description of Alfred B. Connable papers, 1925-1992 (bulk 1941-1957). (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34423217 Alfred B. Connable, Jr. served as a regent of the University of Michigan for sixteen years beginning in 1941. Connable, who was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan on February 20, 1904, graduated from the University of Michigan in 1925. After completing a master's degree in business adminis...