UW-Milwaukee Dept. of Anthropology records, 1960-1985.

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UW-Milwaukee Dept. of Anthropology records, 1960-1985.

Also includes copies of grant reports written by Elizabeth Benchley and Melvin L. Fowler, which were sponsored by the Department, and an Education Guide developed about 1970 to aid Native Americans desiring a college education. Finding aid available in the Archives. Description: Miscellaneous records, mostly dating from the 1970s, containing departmental meeting minutes and correspondence concerning staffing and curriculum development. Various other folders contain information on the Anthropological Research in Cities conference, Cultural and Technological Studies Program, and the Native American Studies Program. There are a number of files on the development of the PhD in anthropology, graduate programs, and cooperative programs with the Center for Latin America and the Museology Program at the Milwaukee Public Museum. Contains records on the controversy between the Linguistics Department and the Anthropology Department in obtaining a joint appointment of a new linguistics instructor, and the bringing of the editorship of the journal "Human organization" to UWM.

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University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Dept. of Native American Studies.

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University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Dept. of Linguistics.

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University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Center for Latin America.

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University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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The WPA + 35 Exhibition, January 4-30, 1970, presented by the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee was a tribute to the crafts and quality of design which came of the Milwaukee Handicraft Project. The Project began in the Fall of 1935. It was one of the more unusual and diverse of the handicraft projects in its philosophy and its goals. Its "Project 1170" was a specially created project for women who needed work, interested in becoming self-supporting. Milwaukee County and...

Benchley, Elizabeth D.

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University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Cultural & Technological Studies Program.

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Fowler, Melvin L. (Melvin Leo), 1924-2008

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Milwaukee public museum

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