Blackfoot Research Project Collection, 1939-1940, 1942, [ca. 1950], 1958, bulk 1939.

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Blackfoot Research Project Collection, 1939-1940, 1942, [ca. 1950], 1958, bulk 1939.

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Papers pertaining to the history, culture, and cultural assimilation of the Siksika Indians on the Blackfoot Reservation in Montana, compiled by Susan Dietrich and Oscar Lewis, primarily in 1939, as part of a Columbia University-sponsored research project. The collection is composed of 6 interviews, 3 manuscripts, and 5 letters. The correspondents include Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead.

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Marquette University Raynor Memorial Library, John P. Raynor Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7343856

Marquette University Raynor Memorial Library, John P. Raynor Library

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Lewis, Oscar, 1914-1970

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Oscar Lewis was born in New York City and grew up on a farm in upper New York State.  He took his BSS degree from the City College in 1936, and went on to graduate work in anthropology at Columbia University, taking his doctorate in 1940 with a thesis on cultural change among the Blackfoot Indians.  At Columbia he studied under Ruth Benedict, and although in many ways the focus of his work differed from hers, Benedict's influence as a teacher and a person remained with him.  Thro...

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 ...

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...

Dietrich, Susan,

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