Yvonne Oddon letters from Alfred and Rhoda Bubendey Métraux, 1932-1951.

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Yvonne Oddon letters from Alfred and Rhoda Bubendey Métraux, 1932-1951.

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Collection contains letters to Yvonne Oddon from Alfred Métraux, with one folder of letters to Oddon from Rhoda Bubendey Métraux. The letters from Alfred Métraux describe his work as founder and director of the Institute of Ethnology at the University of Tucumán in Argentina, and as a Fellow of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum in Honolulu, and his teaching appointments at the University of California, Berkeley and at Yale. Also discussed are his expeditions throughout South America, Africa, and Easter Island, his trip to Europe immediately after the end of World War II, and his involvement with Unesco and their projects in the Amazon River region and Haiti. The letters also describe the writing and publishing of many of his works. Many of the letters are personal in nature, and discuss his relationship with Oddon, his first wife, Eva Métraux, and his second wife, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux. They also describe his often difficult relationship with his work and his collegues, including Peter Henry Buck, Elizabeth Dijour, Henri Alfred Lavachery, Michel Leiris, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Robert Harry Lowie, Paul Rivet, Georges Henri Rivière, André Schaeffner, Jacques Soustelle, and others. The letters from Rhoda Métraux discuss their family life, her concern for Oddon after the war, Alfred's work, and her own work and studies.

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Métraux, Rhoda Bubendey, 1914-

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Cultural anthropologist. From the description of Oral history interview with Rhoda Métraux , 1994. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 495528132 Anthropologist; born Rhoda Bubendey. From the description of Rhoda Bubendey Métraux papers, 1905-1980 (bulk 1948-1970). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983696 Biographical Note 1914, Oct. 18...

Oddon, Yvonne.

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Soustelle, Jacques, 1912-1990

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Oddon, Yvonne, 1902-1963.

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Yvonne Oddon, librarian at the Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadero, Paris (later the Musée de l'Homme). She was part of the Musée de l'Homme Resistance Group during World War II, and was imprisoned by the Nazis. She later directed the Unesco-ICOM Documentation Centre. Alfred Métraux, Swiss anthropologist and ethnologist particularly noted for his work in South America, Haiti, and Easter Island. Métraux, Rhoda Bubendey, American anthropologist. ...

Rivet, Paul, 1876-1958

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Buck, Peter Henry, 1877?-1951

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Schaeffner, André, 1895-1980

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Leiris, Michel, 1901-1990

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Michel Leiris was born in Paris. He became a vital force in the Surrealist movement, but left the movement in the late 1920s. In addition to his work as a writer, editor, and art historian, Leiris was an active ethnologist and anthropologist, notably in Africa. From the description of Phantom Africa manuscript and letters, 1951-1960 (bulk 1951-1952). (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 51220408 ...

Rivière, Georges Henri

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Fils de Maurice Alphonse Jules Rivière et de Marguerite Philomène Élise Dacheux, il est né à Paris le 5 juin 1897. Georges Henri Léon Benjamin Rivière obtient son baccalauréat le 29 juin 1913 à la Faculté des Lettres de Paris, mention latin, langues vivantes et philosophie. Georges-Henri R. vivra dans le culte de son oncle, le célèbre peintre et graveur Henri Rivière, qui fut secrétaire de rédaction de la revue "Le Chat noir", puis, au coté de Rodolphe Salis, responsable du théâtre ...

Lowie, Robert Harry, 1883-1957

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Robert H. Lowie was a noted anthropologist, professor of anthropology, and specialist on the Crow Indians. He moved from Vienna to New York in 1893, and later received his doctorate from Columbia University, studying with Franz Boas. After doing curatorial and field work for the American Museum of Natural History, in 1921 he joined the anthropology faculty at U.C. Berkeley, where he taught until his retirement in 1950. Lowie published hundreds of articles, reviews, and monographs in English, Ger...

Métraux, Eva.

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UNESCO

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Métraux, Alfred, 1902-1963

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Dijour, Elizabeth

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Lavachery, Henri, 1885-1972

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Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 1908-2009

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Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. Nov. 28, 1908, Brussels, Blegium–d. Oct. 30 2009, Paris, France) grew up in Paris and studied law and philosophy at the Sorbonne. In 1935, was part of a French cultural mission to Brazil as a visiting professor of sociology at the University of São Paulo while his then wife, Dina. Together they conducted research into the Mato Grosso and the Amazon Rainforest. Lévi-Strauss returned to France in 1939. He was employed at a lycée in Montpellier but was dismissed under the Vi...