Lauriston Sharp papers, [ca.1940-1990].

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Lauriston Sharp papers, [ca.1940-1990].

Papers documenting his professional career, especially his work with the Yir Yaront tribes in Australia, and the Cornell Thailand Project. Includes field notes by graduate students including Lucien and Jane Hanks and Robert B. Textor. Also includes files relating to the Southeast Asia Program and the Dept. of Anthropology at Cornell, course materials, and records relating to research methodology.

82.8 cubic feet.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7905821

Cornell University Library

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Hanks, Jane Richardson, 1908-

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Anthropologist; student of the Kiowa and Blackfoot Indians, and later of the people of Thailand. From the description of Jane Richardson Hanks Kiowa papers, 1935-1968 bulk 1935-1940. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 42451308 The Jane R. Hanks collection consists of Jane and Lucien Hanks' original notes, transcripts, manuscript drafts and audiovisual materials from their field research, primarily focusing on work in Thailand spanning the 1950s-1970s. Some field notes, ...

Cornell University. Dept. of Anthropology.

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Hanks, Lucien M. (Lucien Mason), 1910-

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Anthropologist. From the description of Oral history interview with Lucien Mason Hanks, 1978. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122569748 Anthropologists. From the description of Lucien M. and Jane R. Hanks papers. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64062048 ...

Textor, Robert B.

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Cornell university. Southeast Asia program

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Sharp, Lauriston

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Anthropologist and Goldwin Smith Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies, emeritus, Cornell University. Lauriston Sharp received a B.A. in 1929 at the University of Wisconsin. He studied in Vienna and at Harvard University, where he received his master's degree in 1932 and his doctorate in 1937. His early field training in anthropology was in the American Southwest and Plains areas and in the Berber regions of eastern Algeria. He began his specialization in the cultu...