The Sula Benet Papers 1954-1982 (bulk 1970-1982).

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The Sula Benet Papers 1954-1982 (bulk 1970-1982).

Dr. Benet, Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Hunter College and senior research associate at RISM, was a colleague of Dr. Rubin and Dr. Margaret Mead for many years. Her papers include correspondence, teaching papers, longevity and aging studies conducted between 1970 and 1973. Also included are reel-to-reel tapes, genealogy charts, questionnaires, surveys and 35 mm color slides possibly used for public lectures.

25.0 linear feet.

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Benet, Sula, 1903-1982

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Sula Benet, Ph. D., was born and educated in Warsaw, Poland. She attended the University of Warsaw where she met her husband, Samuel Benet, a law student. She graduated in 1935 with a graduate degree in ethnography and archaeology. A year later, her dissertation, Hashish in Folk Customs and Beliefs, was published by the Warsaw Society of Sciences. With the help of her mentor, Professor Poniatowski, she was also granted a scholarship for post-doctoral studies. Following her husband's untimely dea...

Research Institute for the Study of man

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Like much of the Caribbean, the island of Trinidad endured tremendous economic, social, and political transformations during the period in which this study was conducted. The years leading up to independence from the British Crown in 1962 saw rapid changes in the areas of race relations, family structure, social value systems, and the economic base of the islands as the plantation-based system was supplanted by rapid modernization. In the Trinidad Study, researchers were most interested in docum...

Rubin, Vera D.

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