Joel Martin Halpern Southeast Europe collection [1800s-2007].

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Joel Martin Halpern Southeast Europe collection [1800s-2007].

This unique collection has been donated to the University of Alberta Library by Dr. Joel Martin Halpern, a prominent anthropologist best known for his pioneering work in Southeast Europe and Southeast Asia. Dr. Halpern is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Massachusetts. The collection includes material from the former Yugoslavia and other countries of the Balkans collected by the Donor between the 1950s and 2007. The majority of the material is in electronic format, stored on DVDs and CDs, with a few sources in print. The collection includes digitized photos and slides (colour and black-and-white) from various regions and countries of the Balkan Penninsula; correspondence, fieldnotes, audio and video recordings, books, journal issues, and museum catalogues; census materials from Serbia (in SPSS format); a collection of print photographs (black-and-white) from Macedonia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Hercegovina.

ca. 2 meters (9 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6962305

University of Alberta

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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...

Halpern, Barbara Kerewsky

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