Joel Martin Halpern papers 1896-2007

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Joel Martin Halpern papers 1896-2007

Grant proposals, conference papers, minutes, reports, studies, writings, notes, correspondence, electronic bulletins, and printed matter, relating to economic and social development of the Southeast Asia region, and American social science studies of the area; ethnology and social and economic conditions in Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe (especially Yugoslavia), and developing countries elsewhere; and the Yugoslav civil war. Includes many grant applications to the Southeast Asia Development Advisory Group of the Asia Society.

114 manuscript boxes; (45.6 linear feet)

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Hoover Institution Archives

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Halpern, Joel M. (Joel Martin), 1929-2019

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Joel Halpern (1929-2019), cultural anthropologist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Halpern was an adventurer and a keen observer who from an early age set his own path. As a youth, he rejected his father's advice that he study chemistry, and instead earned a BA in history from the University of Michigan and a PhD in anthropology from Columbia University. His PhD dissertation on the Serbian village of OraĊĦac received the Clarke F. Ansley Award from Columbia...

Southeast Asia Development Advisory Group

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Asia Society

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The Asia Society is located in Washington, D.C. From the description of Asia Society records, 1971-1976. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64756711 The Asia Society was founded in 1956 under the guidance of John D. Rockefeller 3rd to increase American understanding and appreciation of the poeples of Asia. A non-political educational organization, the Asia Society sponsors seminars and special studies to promote discussion of public af...