Women and the structure of society : selected research from the Fifth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women / edited by Barbara J. Harris and JoAnn K. McNamara
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Harris, Barbara J (Barbara Jean) 1942- Search this
This subseries of the Southern California/Basin series contains John P. Harrington's research on Chumash. His voluminous records on the group--totaling several hundred thousand pages--contain data on each of the six distinct dialect groups which constitute Chumash.
Material on the Obispeno, classified as Northern Chumash, consists primarily of vocabulary and contains a mixture of linguistic, ethnographic, and personal data. These elicitations from the last known native speaker, Rosario Cooper, represent the fullest and phonetically most reliable attestation of the language.
The Purisimeno notes consist mainly of words and "corrected vocabularies." Unlike the materials for the other Central Chumash dialects--Ineseno, Barbareno, and Ventureno--these records contain little grammatical information. Occasional Purisimeno forms are to be found in the Obispeno notes. In addition, much of the Purisimeno data is intermixed with that for Ineseno, as Harrington's informants were generally speakers of both.
Records relating to Ineseno are extensive and varied. They include raw field notes, texts, semantic and grammatical slipfiles, and a dictionary. The bulk of the data are from Maria Solares.
The Barbareno dialect of Central Chumash provided a constant source of interest for Harrington. He became fluent enough that he omitted glosses and translations from his later notes and was able to exchange letters with native speakers. During the course of his fieldwork, he had the unique opportunity to work with three generations of women in one family: Luisa Ignacio (around 1914); her daughter, Lucrecia Garcia (1926-1928); and her granddaughter, Mary Yee (from the 1920s to the early 1960s). Harrington also worked with Juan de Jesus Justo, a speaker of a different subdialect. While the notes Harrington recorded on Barbareno are among his most extensive, they are not as clearly organized as those for other groups. Thousands of pages of linguistic notes are totally without organization. Harrington rarely obtained paradigms. Instead, he obtained information by rechecking other sources, such as his own Ineseno dictionary, or by eliciting sentences in a random fashion. While textual material is plentiful, complete interlinear and free translations are often lacking.
Harrington's ethnographic notes on the Ventureno are among the most complete for any California Indian tribe he studied. Detailed accounts of Chumash life were obtained from the elderly Fernando Librado. Their interviews touched upon religion, perceptions of astronomy, such technologies as boat building and basket making, social structure, medical practices, and natural resources. A number of subdialects are represented in the Ventureno notes. Harrington recorded the "commonized" Ventura Mission dialect (samala) from Librado, Simplicio Pico, and Cecilio Tumamait. Interior Chumash (Cayetano and Castequeno) was obtained from Jose Juan Olivas. Other dialects mentioned include Mugu, Malibu, Ojai, and Matilija. There are also notes on the lone woman of San Nicolas Island.
In comparison with the records for the other Chumash dialects, documentation for Island Chumash (Ysleno) is extremely limited. Scattered throughout the material are references to the two dialects of Santa Cruz (Cruzeno), swaxil and kaxas. The speech of Santa Rosa and San Miguel is also mentioned.
The subseries also contains drafts of different lengths and in various stages of completion. Two documents pertain to Barbareno linguistics while the remaining papers reflect Harrington's cultural study of the Chumash.
Biographical / Historical:
John P. Harrington studied the Chumash Indians of southern California more thoroughly than any other group, both linguistically and culturally. He first expressed interest in the Chumash culture as early as 1902 during summer school studies with A. L. Kroeber and P. E. Goddard. His linguistic study of the Chumash family began during his association with the School of American Archaeology and the Panama-California Exposition and continued periodically up until his death in 1961.
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Microfilm Reel: 3
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Collection Citation:
John Peabody Harrington papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The preferred citation for the Harrington Papers will reference the actual location within the collection, i.e. Box 172, Alaska/Northwest Coast, Papers of John Peabody Harrington, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
However, as the NAA understands the need to cite phrases or vocabulary on specific pages, a citation referencing the microfilmed papers is acceptable. Please note that the page numbering of the PDF version of the Harrington microfilm does not directly correlate to the analog microfilm frame numbers. If it is necessary to cite the microfilmed papers, please refer to the specific page number of the PDF version, as in: Papers of John Peabody Harrington, Microfilm: MF 7, R34 page 42.
By Ethel Freeman's instructions, the collection was restricted for ten years dating from the receipt and signing of the release forms on October 12, 1972. Literary property rights to the unpublished materials in the collection were donated to the National Anthropological Archives.
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Seminole recordings cannot be accessed without the permission of the Seminole Tribe.
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Ethel Cutler Freeman papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
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Digitization and preparation of these materials for online access has been funded through generous support from the Arcadia Fund.
By Ethel Freeman's instructions, the collection was restricted for ten years dating from the receipt and signing of the release forms on October 12, 1972. Literary property rights to the unpublished materials in the collection were donated to the National Anthropological Archives.
Access to the Ethel Cutler Freeman papers requires an appointment.
Seminole recordings cannot be accessed without the permission of the Seminole Tribe.
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Ethel Cutler Freeman papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
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Digitization and preparation of these materials for online access has been funded through generous support from the Arcadia Fund.
84 Film reels (17 hours, color sound; 36,800 feet, 16mm)
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Archival materials
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Date:
1973
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Full film record of the American Universities Field Staff "Faces of Change" film series in Bolivia. Footage was shot in a high Andes valley of western Bolivia in the villages of Ayata (a primarily mestizo town) and Vitocota (an Aymara Indian community), both located in Munecas Province, Department of La Paz. The project explored the nature of Altiplano social structure as manifest between the residents of these related communities, focusing on social and cultural factors which unite as well as divide them. Documentation includes: planting and harvesting of potatoes and ocha; manufacture of chicha (corn beer); sheep herding; market days; the Fiesta of Santiago held conjointly between Vitocota and Ayata and the Fiesta of San Lorenzo in Ayata; dispute management and settlement which accompanies these celebrations; syncretic rites (using coca leaves) performed at the beginning of the Aymara year (August 1); the role of Aymara women in the Andean economy; and the syncretic nature of Altiplano Bolivian religious and magical beliefs and practices. The edited films VIRACOCHA, THE CHILDREN KNOW, POTATO PLANTERS, ANDEAN WOMEN, THE SPIRIT POSSESSION OF ALEJANDRO MAMANI, and MAGIC AND CATHOLICISM were produced from this film project.
Legacy Keywords: Syncretism Aymara Bolivia ; Agriculture Bolivia ; Harvests potatoes ocha division of harvest Bolivia ; Festivals religious Aymara mestizo Fiesta of Santiago in Vitocota processions Dea de la Bandeta (Flag Day) Fiesta of San Lorenzo in Ayata Bolivia ; Curing brujos Bolivia ; Drinking social festivals ritualistic drunkenness Bolivia ; Alcoholic beverages chicha manufacture of fermented cane juice drinking of Bolivia ; Chicha drinking manufacture of festivals Bolivia ; Coca use of Bolivia ; Divination use of coca in Aymara Bolivia ; Weaving looms Aymara Bolivia ; Disputes settlement of boundaries Bolivia ; Spirit possession suicide Bolivia ; Musical instruments flutes drums playing the kena-kena(straigt flute) festivals Bolivia ; Herding pigs sheep llamas alpacas Bolivia ; Markets transportation of produce to shopping at trade Bolivia ; Mills sugar cane Bolivia ; Dancing Festival of Santiago mestizo Indian snake dance traditional Bolivia ; Sports soccer Bolivia ; Planting potatoes ochas corn methods consideration of saints' days in Bolivia ; Abortion ideas about birth control Bolivia ; Ploughing Bolivia ; Haciendas prohibition of system Bolivia ; Cultivation corn Bolivia ; Labour mestizo hired conditions division of between men and women conflict of with education wages Bolivia ; Originarios land-owners Bolivia2HRAF ; Music hymns brass bands phonograph records singing of patriotic songs Bolivia2HRAF ; Magic divinations sacrifices invocations magical objects Bolivia2HRAF ; Libations offering of chanting Bolivia ; Sacrifice invocations Bolivia2HRAF ; Washing clothes Bolivia2HRAF ; Churches icons Bolivia2HRAF ; Costume dance masks Bolivia2HRAF ; Masks dance characters Bolivia2HRAF ; Prayer lamentations Santiago Bolivia ; Shelters lamars Festival of Santiago Bolivia2HRAF ; Ritual lamars arcos coca Bolivia2HRAF ; Children treatment of relations between mestizo and Aymara education of Bolivia2HRAF ; Drunkenness festivals attitudes towards Bolivia2HRAF ; Games soccer Bolivia ; Police Aymara mestizos' relations with Bolivia2HRAF ; Debts collection of Bolivia2HRAF ; Icons Santiago San Lorenzo Bolivia ; Visions of Santiago Bolivia ; Social system Agrarian reform criticism of Bolivia2HRAF ; Medicine western travelling "physician" mestizo Bolivia2HRAF ; Education directives schools instruction conflict of with labour teachers language of instruction Bolivia2HRAF ; Conversation Bolivia ; Food eating boiled corn eating soup eating boiled calla eating freeze-dried ocha buthchering lamb Alliance for Progress donations Bolivia2HRAF ; Schools Bolivia2HRAF ; Households chores Bolivia2HRAF ; Houses adobe construction of habitability Bolivia ; Meat butchering of lamb Bolivia2HRAF ; Butchering lamb Bolivia ; Wills and testaments drafting of division of estate Bolivia2HRAF ; Spouses physical abuse of Bolivia2HRAF ; Suicide spirit possession Bolivia2HRAF ; Boundaries fields disputes Bolivia2HRAF ; Military conscription Bolivia2HRAF
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
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American University Field Staff Faces of Change collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Edited film produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation documents a predominantly Afrikaner nationalist perspective on the apartheid system of South Africa. The film is driven by Afrikaners commentary discussing religious, economic, and evolutionary justification for the stratification of the races through denial/restriction of career opportunities, education, and residential access. The ways in which the system of apartheid has proven itself prosperous for the country through economic limitation imposed, resulting in a social structure of cheap labor for the production of raw materials which drive the country's economy. The Afrikaner perspective is presented through voice-over and accompanying footage, which contradicts a view that the apartheid system is governed by the concept of "separate but equal. Included are images of public race-specific signs, pedestrian activity in various cities, aerial views of Cape Town, Xhosa women in Transkei, and African children singing "Nkosi Sikelele Afrika."
Legacy Keywords: Racism ; Nationalism
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Local Numbers: HSFA 1994.21.247
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The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
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REMC 2 educational film collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Primate behavior and sociobiology : selected papers (part b) of the VIIIth Congress of the International Primatological Society, Florence, 7-12 July 1980 / edited by A.B. Chiarelli and R.S. Corruccini
