William Shedrick Willis papers, [ca. 1940-1983] Circa 1940-1983

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...

Columbia University

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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...

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...

Linton, Ralph, 1893-1953

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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 ...

Southern Methodist University.

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Shared governance had a short life at SMU. The concept was popular from initial research forays into its feasibility for the university in the 1960s until the death of the University Assembly in 1975. The University Assembly grew increasingly unpopular with the SMU faculty over time. From the guide to the University Assembly of Southern Methodist University records SMU 2010. 0421., 1968-1975, (Southern Methodist University Archives, DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University) ...

Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1848

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Herzog, George, 1901-1983

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Mahon, J. K.

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Mintz, Sidney Wilfred, 1922-....

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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 ...

Wagley, Charles, 1913-

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Charles Wagley was born November 9, 1913 at Clarksville, Texas. He received his doctorate from Columbia University in 1941. He served as Professor of Anthropology, Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and director of the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University. He was a staff member of the Institute of Inter-American Affairs, Brazilian Field Party and held several positions, including directorships, with various programs to the Brazilian-American Public Health Ser...

Willis, William Shedrick, 1921-1983

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William S. Willis was an anthropologist. He studied at Columbia University (Ph.D., 1955) and conducted research on Indians of the Southeast United States. He taught at Southern Methodist University and at Columbia University. In addition to his interest in American Indians, Willis researched Afro-American history and the history of anthropology, particularly racism in anthropology, and the career of Franz Boas. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1940-1983]. (American Philosophical ...

Strong, William Duncan, 1899-1962

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Weltfish, Gene, 1902-1980

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American anthropologist known for her cultural and linguistic studies of the Pawnee Indians. Born in New York City and a student of Franz Boas at Columbia University, Weltfish began to work with the Pawnee in Oklahoma in 1928. During the summer of 1935 she focused on documenting social relations and surviving customs, and worked with her Pawnee colleague Mark Evarts to reconstruct the seasonal cycles of the Pawnee for the year 1867. She later conducted ethnological, arch...

Sturtevant, William C.

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A Wisconsin native, Lounsbury completed his undergraduate education at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and took an MA degree there. He then went to Yale University and was awarded a Ph.D. for work on Oneida phonology and morphology in 1949. While in the Ph.D. program he started teaching, and remained at Yale for the rest of his career. Retiring in 1979, Lounsbury was appointed Sterling Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, a post he held until his death at age 84. I...

Steward, Julian Haynes, 1902-1972

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The Puerto Rico Project was an in-depth study of the Island's population organized by Dr. Jaime Benitez, chancellor of the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, with the assistance of Clarence Senior, director of the University's Center of Social Science Investigations. In early 1947, the proposed study was brought to the attention of Dr. Julian Steward, chair of Columbia University's Anthropology Department.By December 1947 the organization of project goals, research hypotheses and met...