Robert C. West oral history interview, 1992.

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Robert C. West oral history interview, 1992.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71782902

West discusses Carl Sauer and Alfred Kroeber at the University of California at Berkeley; the courses he taught at Louisiana State University; his interest in the Tarascan Indians of Mexico, agricultural practices in Central America, and other ethnogeography topics; his fieldwork in Latin America; and the work of his students.

3 sound cassettes (3 hours);Transcript (127 leaves)

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 8085624

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Sauer, Carl Ortwin, 1889-1975

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Sauer was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. From the description of Carl Ortwin Sauer papers, 1909-1975. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 26643557 ...

Anderson, Katharine Mary

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University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of Geography.

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Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960

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Alfred L. Kroeber was an anthropologist. He taught anthropology at the University of California, 1901-1946, and was curator, 1908-1925, and director, 1925-1946, of the University's anthropological museum. From the description of Yana vocabulary and grammatical notes, 1911-1912. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 86165433 Anthropologist. From the description of Anthropology : mss., 1948. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 85185772 A...

West, Robert C. (Robert Cooper), 1913-2001

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Robert C. West (1913-2001) was a cultural geographer with the Smithsonian Institution in Mexico City for two years before joining the faculty of the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Louisiana State University in 1948. He was named a Boyd Professor in 1970 and retired in 1980. West also served as a cartographer in the Office of Strategic Services for four years during World War II. From the description of Robert C. West oral history interview, 1992. (Louisiana State Univers...

Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.). T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History

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The T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History was established in August 1991 to document the history of Louisiana State University. A department of LSU Libraries Special Collections, the Center conducts, collects, preserves, and makes available to scholars oral history interviews on Louisiana's social, political, cultural, and economic history. From the description of T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History records, 1990-1998. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 22696...