Records, 1930-1979 (inclusive), 1953-1977 (bulk).

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Records, 1930-1979 (inclusive), 1953-1977 (bulk).

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Contains correspondence, annual reports, project files, bugdets, personnel files, field notes and manuscripts from American and Filipino anthropologists, publications of the Program, maps, charts, photographs, lantern slides, and unpublished manuscripts and microfilm from the Philippine Studies Program Library. Records document primarily the Program's activities, from its founding in 1953 under the directorship of Fred Eggan, to its closing at his retirement in 1977. Topics include the archaeology, economy, ethnography, geography, and history of the Philippines. Historical accounts of the Philippines include the Alzina project.

23 linear ft.

University of Chicago Library

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University of Chicago Library

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University of Chicago. Philippine Studies Program

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The University of Chicago Philippine Studies Program was established in 1953 with Fred Eggan as Director and Evett D. Hester as Associate Director. The Program was supported by an initial five year grant of $75,000 in March 1953 from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The Carnegie Corporation furnished a terminal grant of $25,000 in December 1957. Funding for specific projects was provided by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Asia Foundation, and the Ford Foundation. After the Prog...

Eggan, Fred, 1906-1991

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Fred Eggan was born in Seattle, Washington on September 12, 1906. His parents, Alfred J. and Olive Smith Eggan, later relocated to Lake Forest, Illinois, a north suburb of Chicago. In 1923 Eggan came to the University of Chicago as an undergraduate and continued on to earn an M.A. in psychology with a minor in anthropology in 1928. His master's thesis was entitled "An Experimental Study of Attitudes toward Race and Nationality." From 1928 to 1930 he taught psychology, so...