Murray L. Wax papers

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Murray L. Wax papers

1944-1989

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Fieldwork, correspondence, publications of Murray L. Wax, and secondarily of Rosalie Hankey Wax, 1944-1992, but dating mainly from the 1960s. Includes field notes, interviews, and manuscript drafts of project reports for U.S. Office of Education-funded Indian education field projects directed by Murray Wax and focusing on the Pine Ridge Reservation Oglala Sioux, 1962-1964, and rural and urban schools among the Oklahoma Cherokee, 1966-1968. There is material on a University of Chicago Cherokee project directed by Sol Tax, a Rough Rock Demonstration School visit by Wax in 1966, and a National Indian Health Board project on which Wax consulted. There are copies of published and unpublished reports and articles by Murray and Rosalie Wax, as well as work by several of their students (Robert Breunig and Marilyn Henning), research assistants, and other anthropologists relating to the Sioux, Cherokee, and other Native American subjects; numerous newspaper clippings concerning topics of Wax's research and the projects themselves; and miscellaneous field notes. Also included are files relating Rosalie Wax's fieldwork in the Japanese internment camp at Tule Lake, Calif., 1944-1945.

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Breunig, Robert.

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Wax, Murray Lionel, 1922-

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American anthropologist and sociologist specializing in Native American education. During the 1960's Wax (Ph. D Univ. of Chicago, 1959) and his wife and colleague Rosalie Hankey Wax directed a study of Oglala Sioux education at the Pine Ridge Reservation, S.D., an Indian Education Research Project that studied rural and urban education among the Oklahoma Cherokee, and other projects. Wax taught at Emory, The Univ. of Kansas, and Washington Univ. in St. Louis. Rosalie Han...

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Wax, Rosalie H.

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Rosalie Hankey Wax, born Nov. 4, 1911, was a staff researcher for the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study (JERS) at the University of California, Berkeley, June 1943-July 1945. She reported from the Gila Relocation Center at Rivers, Ariz., and from the Tule Lake Relocation Center in north-eastern Calif. From the description of Rosalie H. Wax papers, 1943-1990. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 77819934 Rosalie Hankey Wax (1911-1998), a...

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Dumont, Robert V. Jr.

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Tax, Sol, 1907-1995

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Sol Tax (1907-1996) was a prominent cultural anthropologist. He completed a Bachelor's degree at the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1931, a M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Chicago (1932 and 1935). He took a faculty position at University of Chicago in 1940 and remained there until 1977. Tax founded the academic journal Current Anthropology (1959), served on the National Research Council Committee on Latin American Anthropology (1946-1954), served on the President's Task Force on India...