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Collection Creator:

Smith, C. Earle (Claude Earle), 1922-1987  Search this

Extent:

0.21 Linear feet

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1950-1953

1964-1987

Scope and Contents:

Among the materials in this series are copies of Smith's curriculum vitae, a couple of articles about him, personnel files from his position as botanist at the Agriculture Research Service, some course notes from his time as a student at Harvard, and information about his naval service. The folder titled "[Family]" contains an article about his brother, H. Morgan Smith, who is an anthropologist.

Collection Restrictions:

Grant proposal reviews in Series 4: Professional Activities and materials with student grades in Series 5: University of Alabama have been restricted.

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Collection Citation:

C. Earle Smith Jr. papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Sponsor:

The C. Earle Smith Jr. papers were processed with the assistance of a Wenner-Gren Foundation Historical Archives Program grant awarded to Vernon (Jim) Knight of the University of Alabama.

Identifier:

NAA.2006-24, Series 7

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Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3119d4b7e-d384-44e4-af85-82c72bfacaea

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-2006-24-ref37

Collection Creator:

Smith, C. Earle (Claude Earle), 1922-1987  Search this

Container:

Box 19

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1964-1969

undated

Scope and Contents:

Personnel files for position as botanist for Agricultural Research Service.

Collection Restrictions:

Grant proposal reviews in Series 4: Professional Activities and materials with student grades in Series 5: University of Alabama have been restricted.

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Collection Rights:

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Collection Citation:

C. Earle Smith Jr. papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Sponsor:

The C. Earle Smith Jr. papers were processed with the assistance of a Wenner-Gren Foundation Historical Archives Program grant awarded to Vernon (Jim) Knight of the University of Alabama.

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C. Earle Smith Jr. papers / Series 7: Personal Files

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3dd3cf9f1-9e37-4d9d-988e-9b107fdf6462

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-2006-24-ref885

Creator:

Faris, James C.  Search this

Extent:

7.67 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Field notes

Photographs

Sound recordings

Place:

Nuba Mountains (Sudan)

Date:

1960-2014, undated

Summary:

James Faris (1936 – present) is an American cultural anthropologist and epistemologist who received his PhD from Cambridge University in 1966. He conducted fieldwork in the fishing settlement of Cat Harbour, Newfoundland, among the Nuba of Southeastern Kordofan in the Sudan, and among the Navajo in the American Southwest. His research specializations include cognitive anthropology, art and aesthetics, ritual, social organization and reproduction, anthropological linguistics, and visual anthropology and critical theory and representation.

The James Faris Papers, 1960-2014, primarily document his fieldwork with the Nuba peoples of Southeastern Sudan. His papers also include materials related to representation of the Nuba peoples and various controversies in visual anthropology and documentary film that related to Leni Riefenstahl and her filmmaking among the Nuba. During the 1960s Faris was drawn into activism against the Vietnam War while at the University of Connecticut and his papers contain ephemeral materials on radical anthropology and racism from that period. The collection consists of field notes, correspondence, photographs, sound recordings, films (including scripts and transcriptions), videos, book and papers drafts, and news and magazine clippings.

Scope and Contents:

The James Faris papers, 1960-2014, undated, primarily document his field research with the Nuba people in South Sudan. It also includes materials related to Leni Riefenstahl and her work with the Nuba, material regarding racism and activism at the University of Connecticut, and writings and notes. The collection consists of field notes, sound recordings, films, videos, film transcriptions and scripts, correspondence, photographs, book and paper drafts, and clippings.

Faris worked with the Nuba people in Sudan from 1966-1969 and again in the 1970s. His materials document their body art and cultural practices before the Nuba were converted to Islam in the 1980s. Over 800 photographic slides record their agriculture, rituals, dance, and personal art in addition to Faris' extensive field notes.

Arrangement:

The James Faris papers are arranged in 4 series: Series 1. Sudan, 1966-2008, undated; Series 2. Materials pertaining to Leni Riefenstahl, 1971-2008; Series 3. University of Connecticut, 1969-1992, undated; Series 4. Writings, conference files, and other materials, 1960-2014, undated.

Biographical note:

Chronology

1936 November 1 -- Born in Durango, Colorado

1958 -- B.S. in Chemistry from the University of New Mexico

1959-1960 -- Archaeological field research, New Mexico (6 months)

1962-1964, 1972 -- Ethnological field research, Newfoundland (17 months)

1965 -- Lecturer, University of Maryland (overseas)

1966 -- Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge

1966 -- Assistant Professor, McGill University

1966-1969 -- Lecturer, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan

1966-1969, 1977, 1979, 1980 -- Ethnological field research, Kordofan , Sudan (20 months)

1969-1978 -- Associate Professor, University of Connecticut

1978-1979 -- Visiting Professor, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan

1978-1995 -- Professor, University of Connecticut

1983-1988 -- Ethnological field research, New Mexico/Arizona (18 months)

1990-1993 -- Ethnological field research, Greater Southwest (8 months)

1995 July 1-Present -- Emeritus Professor, University of Connecticut

James Chester Faris is an ethnographic anthropologist whose research specializations include social anthropology, social organization and production, cognitive studies, aesthetics and art, population, materialist perspectives, anthropological critique, textuality, anthropological linguistics, and photographic analysis and critique. He completed field research in Newfoundland, Sudan, New Mexico, Arizona, and the Greater Southwest.

Faris was trained at Cambridge as an anthropologist and spent the majority of his academic career teaching at the University of Connecticut. He also spent time as a lecturer and visiting professor at the University of Khartoum in Sudan. In this time he conducted his field research on the Southeast Nuba of Southern Kordofan Province.

Faris became an Emeritus Professor at the University of Connecticut in 1995 and currently lives in New Mexico.

Separated Materials:

Film, video, and related sound materials have been transferred to the Human Studies Film Archives (HSFA/NAFC), accession number 2017-004, but are described in this finding aid in Series 1.5 (Films and related materials).

Provenance:

These papers were donated to the National Anthropological Archives by James Faris in 2016.

Restrictions:

The James Faris papers are open for research.

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Rights:

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Topic:

Nuba (African people)  Search this

Documentary films  Search this

Genre/Form:

Field notes

Photographs

Sound recordings

Citation:

James Faris papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Sponsor:

Digitization and preparation of sound recordings for online access has been funded through generous support from the Arcadia Fund

Identifier:

NAA.2016-36

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Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw39b45b4e3-3a93-493d-b73c-2d39bcb00772

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-2016-36

Collection Creator:

Dunham, S. Ann (Stanley Ann)  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1974-1984, undated

Scope and Contents:

This subseries consists of materials related to Dunham's work as Program Officer for Women and Employment at the Ford Foundation in Jakarta from January 1981-November 1984. The materials, dated 1974-1984 and undated, include correspondence, reports, memos, research proposals, publications about women in development, and clippings.

The materials document her involvement in development, evaluation, and monitoring of Ford Foundation grants in several areas including women in development, rural non-farm employment and income generation, women in industry, urban poverty, informal sector employment, and women in agriculture.

Arrangement:

This series is arranged in 4 subseries: 2.1.1 Correspondence, 1979-1984; 2.1.2 Subject files and other documents, 1974-1984, undated; 2.1.3 Publications about WID (women in development), 1975-1983; 2.1.4 Clippings, 1978-1984.

Collection Restrictions:

The S. Ann Dunham papers are open for research.

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Collection Citation:

S. Ann Dunham papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Wenner-Gren Foundation.

Identifier:

NAA.2011-04, Subseries 2.1

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S. Ann Dunham papers

S. Ann Dunham papers / Series 2: Professional

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw37abad67b-bb86-41c3-bee4-46d9ac60b8cb

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-2011-04-ref105

Collection Creator:

Dunham, S. Ann (Stanley Ann)  Search this

Extent:

5.4 Linear feet

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

circa 1969-2012, undated

Scope and Contents:

This series contains reference and research materials that Dunham collected over the course of her career and studies. Dated circa 1969-1994 and undated, the materials include clippings, maps, reading notes, journals, scholarly articles, and reports.

The clippings include primarily Indonesian articles on a wide range of topics of personal and professional interest. The maps are related to Dunham's research, work, and the places she lived. The reading notes include her summaries and critiques of what she read.

The sources (filed A-Z) include approximately 300 titles and include journal articles, chapters in books, conference papers, working papers, and other gray literature. Topics include labor, poverty, women in development, agriculture and sustainability, small businesses and microfinance, population growth and migration, and other aspects of economic anthropology. A bibliography of these titles was compiled with the assistance of volunteers from the Hawaii student chapter of the Society of American Archivists, Library and Information Science Program, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2011-2012. A copy of the bibliography is filed with these materials.

The blacksmithing sources include three comb-bound sourcebooks containing photocopies of articles and selected pages from books on three different aspects of the subject—archaeology, history and ethnography, and art history.

Arrangement:

This series is arranged in 4 subseries: 7.1 Clippings, 1970-1994, undated; 7.2 Maps of Indonesia, 1974-1983, undated; 7.3 Reading notes, undated; 7.4 Sources, circa 1969-circa 1993.

Collection Restrictions:

The S. Ann Dunham papers are open for research.

Electronic records are unavailable for research. Please contact the reference archivist for additional information.

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Collection Citation:

S. Ann Dunham papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Wenner-Gren Foundation.

Identifier:

NAA.2011-04, Series 7

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Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw364acf083-fca4-454c-a70f-f14f31e84f7a

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-2011-04-ref481

Collection Creator:

Dunham, S. Ann (Stanley Ann)  Search this

Container:

Box 2

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1984-1992

Collection Restrictions:

The S. Ann Dunham papers are open for research.

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Collection Citation:

S. Ann Dunham papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Wenner-Gren Foundation.

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S. Ann Dunham papers

S. Ann Dunham papers / Series 1: Field notebooks

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3303ff3fa-6aac-4649-b404-abfb307d6a52

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-2011-04-ref85

Collection Creator::

Hoogstraal, Harry, 1917-1986  Search this

Container:

Box 7 of 121

Type:

Archival materials

Collection Citation:

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7454, Harry Hoogstraal Papers

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Harry Hoogstraal Papers

Harry Hoogstraal Papers / Box 7

Archival Repository:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-sia-faru7454-refidd1e7778

Creator::

Schaus, William  Search this

Extent:

6.5 cu. ft. (13 document boxes)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Clippings

Manuscripts

Date:

1917-1939

Descriptive Entry:

These papers consist largely of Schaus' professional correspondence with his peers and with amateurs, mostly in his capacity as Honorary Curator. They also include fragmentary research notes, correspondence, catalogs, and news clippings relating to acquisition of the Paul Dognin Collection of Lepidoptera.

Historical Note:

William Schaus (1858-1942) was, like many early entomologists, trained for a career he chose not to follow--in Schaus's case, that of an art dealer. Though he studied art and music in America and abroad in preparation for that career, Schaus came under the influence of Henry Edwards and so turned to entomology. For many years he pursued his interest privately, traveling extensively in Europe to broaden his knowledge of lepidoptera, the family to which he devoted his attention during most of his life. In 1919 Schaus joined the Bureau of Entomology of the United States Department of Agriculture and, in 1921, began a long association with the Smithsonian Institution as an honorary curator of insects in the National Museum.

Topic:

Entomology  Search this

Entomologists  Search this

Lepidopterists  Search this

Genre/Form:

Clippings

Manuscripts

Citation:

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7100, William Schaus Papers

Identifier:

Record Unit 7100

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William Schaus Papers

Archival Repository:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-sia-faru7100

Collection Creator:

Dunham, S. Ann (Stanley Ann)  Search this

Container:

Box 6

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1982

Collection Restrictions:

The S. Ann Dunham papers are open for research.

Electronic records are unavailable for research. Please contact the reference archivist for additional information.

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Collection Citation:

S. Ann Dunham papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Wenner-Gren Foundation.

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S. Ann Dunham papers / Series 2: Professional / 2.1: Ford Foundation / 2.1.3: Publications about WID (women in development)

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3e89caeb2-6085-4363-bae0-6b6b0b557049

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-2011-04-ref199

Collection Creator:

Faris, James C.  Search this

Container:

Box 3

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

circa 1966-circa 1980

Collection Restrictions:

The James Faris papers are open for research.

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Collection Rights:

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Collection Citation:

James Faris papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Sponsor:

Digitization and preparation of sound recordings for online access has been funded through generous support from the Arcadia Fund

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James Faris papers / Series 1: Sudan / 1.3: Photographs

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3683f2259-2dcf-491c-a4a9-a0df54f1bd52

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-2016-36-ref178

Container:

Box 10 of 13

Type:

Archival materials

Collection Citation:

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 16-179, Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, Research Records

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Research Records

Research Records / Box 10

Archival Repository:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-sia-fa16-179-refidd1e2144

Collection Creator::

Smithsonian Environmental Research Center  Search this

Container:

Box 1 of 8

Type:

Archival materials

Collection Rights:

Restricted for 15 years. until Jan-01-2023; Transferring office; 5/4/2018 Memorandum, Wright/Swann to Zevely; Contact reference staff for details.

Collection Citation:

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 18-158, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Grant/Project Records

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Grant/Project Records

Grant/Project Records / Box 1

Archival Repository:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-sia-fa18-158-refidd1e235

Creator::

Smith, Marion R. (Marion Russell), 1894-  Search this

Extent:

3 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Manuscripts

Date:

circa 1938-1964

Descriptive Entry:

This accession consists of correspondence to and from Marion R. Smith. Smith was a researcher with the Insect Identification and Parasite Introduction Section, United States Department of Agriculture.

Topic:

Entomology  Search this

Genre/Form:

Manuscripts

Citation:

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-073, Marion R. Smith Papers

Identifier:

Accession 98-073

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Archival Repository:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-sia-fa98-073

Creator::

Knight, J. Brookes (James Brookes), 1888-1960  Search this

Extent:

5.5 cu. ft. (11 document boxes)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Scientific illustrations

Maps

Manuscripts

Date:

circa 1928-1955 and undated

Descriptive Entry:

These papers consist of general correspondence with his family and amateur and professional paleontologists; unpublished manuscripts on gastropods and a typescript by F. M. Wadley of the United States Department of Agriculture; and drawings and a map of geological formations in central Texas. Correspondence concerns family financial matters; the administration of the USNM's Department of Geology; the review and publication of journal articles; state geological surveys; Knight's involvement in professional societies; and his research in Europe.

Historical Note:

J. Brookes Knight (1888-1960) was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He received his bachelor's degree at Princeton University, 1911, his master's degree at the University of Kansas, 1928, and his Ph.D. at Yale University, 1931. After graduating from Princeton, Knight returned to St. Louis to help in his family's business. During this time he studied fossils from the St. Louis area which were later used as the basis for his thesis at Kansas.

Following his graduation from Yale, Knight remained there for two years as a Research Associate and Sterling Senior Fellow at the Peabody Museum of Natural History. In 1933 he left the Peabody Museum and went to Occidental College in California where he was an Assistant Professor of Geology. From 1934 to 1935, he was in Europe on a Penrose Grant from The Geological Society of America to study Paleozoic gastropod collections in European museums. In 1936, he was appointed Lecturer and Curator of Paleozoic Invertebrate Paleontology at Princeton. During World War II, he also served as Instructor of Geology at Princeton's Army Special Training Program. During the summers of 1931, 1936, and 1938, Knight was an Assistant Geologist with the United States Geological Survey, assisting Philip B. King in studying the Permian fossils of Texas.

In 1945 Knight joined the staff of the United States National Museum (USNM) as a Research Associate in Paleontology, a position which he held until his retirement in 1956 when he was made an Honorary Research Associate. At the USNM Knight was in charge of the Paleozoic gastropods. As a result of his work with these fossils, Knight helped to prepare a section on Paleozoic gastropods for the Index Fossils of North America (1944) and the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology published by the Paleontological Society in 1960. He also helped prepare a study of Permian fossils, parts of which were published posthumously.

Topic:

Geology  Search this

Paleontology  Search this

Geologists  Search this

Paleontologists  Search this

Genre/Form:

Scientific illustrations

Maps

Manuscripts

Citation:

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7251, J. Brookes Knight Papers

Identifier:

Record Unit 7251

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J. Brookes Knight Papers

Archival Repository:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-sia-faru7251

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Electronic records

Date:

2014-2016

Descriptive Entry:

This accession consists of the Department of Entomology blog as it existed on November 22, 2016. The blog, established in January 2014, focuses on collections, research, and staff from the National Museum of Natural History, the United States Department of Agriculture's Systematic Entomology Laboratory, and the Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, as well as other entomology-related news. Materials are in electronic format.

Topic:

Museums -- Public relations  Search this

Web sites  Search this

Blogs  Search this

Natural history museums  Search this

Entomology  Search this

Research  Search this

Museums -- Collection management  Search this

Entomologists  Search this

Genre/Form:

Electronic records

Citation:

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 17-339, National Museum of Natural History, Website Records

Identifier:

Accession 17-339

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Website Records

Archival Repository:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-sia-fa17-339

Container:

Box 8 of 12

Type:

Archival materials

Collection Citation:

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 17-003, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Research Records

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Research Records

Research Records / Box 8

Archival Repository:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-sia-fa17-003-refidd1e1795

Extent:

1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Manuscripts

Date:

1949-1980

Descriptive Entry:

These papers consist mainly of professional correspondence documenting Spangler's work in the Division of Coleoptera and his research on aquatic beetles. Most of the material concerns the identification of entomological specimens. A small amount of correspondence predates Spangler's association with the USNM.

Historical Note:

Paul J. Spangler (1924- ) received his B.A. from Lebanon Valley College in 1949, his M.S. from Ohio University in 1951, and his Ph.D in entomology from the University of Missouri in 1960. From 1951 to 1953, he worked as Museum Assistant in Entomology at the University of Kansas. Spangler then accepted a position at the University of Missouri, where he worked as an Instructor in Entomology from 1953 to 1957. In 1957 he was stationed in Juneau, Alaska, as a Fishery Research Biologist with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, a position he held until 1958.

In 1958, Spangler joined the staff of the Entomology Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), located in the United States National Museum (USNM). He was a Systematic Entomologist with the USDA until 1962, when he took a job as an Associate Curator in the Division of Insects, USNM. When the Division of Coleoptera was created in 1963, Spangler became an Associate Curator with that division.

Topic:

Entomology  Search this

Entomologists  Search this

Genre/Form:

Manuscripts

Citation:

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7419, Paul J. Spangler Papers

Identifier:

Record Unit 7419

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Paul J. Spangler Papers

Archival Repository:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-sia-faru7419

Collection Creator::

Smithsonian Institution. Office of Sponsored Projects  Search this

Container:

Box 13 of 15

Type:

Archival materials

Collection Citation:

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 04-005, Smithsonian Institution, Office of Sponsored Projects, Award Files

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Award Files

Award Files / Box 13

Archival Repository:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-sia-fa04-005-refidd1e2135

Author:

Russell, Edward J (Edward John) Sir 1872-1965  Search this

Physical description:

493 p. front., 6 plates (incl. ports.) tables. 23 cm

Type:

Books

Place:

Great Britain

Date:

1966

Topic:

Agriculture--Research--History  Search this

Call number:

S455 .R96

S455.R96

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_85952

Creator:

Leeds, Anthony, 1925-  Search this

Extent:

18.37 Linear feet (32 document boxes, 2 card file boxes, one photo album, one oversize box, 2 map folders, and one document box of restricted materials.)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Place:

Bahia (Brazil : State)

Date:

1946-1989

Summary:

This collection is comprised of the professional papers of Anthony Leeds, anthropologist and university professor. Leeds' reasearch was primarily concerned with urban development, though the fieldwork included in this collection is from rural areas. Included are correspondence, field notes, published and unpublished papers, photographs, newspaper and periodical clippings, conference papers, lecture notes, syllabi, critiques of colleague and student work, and several personal documents.

Scope and Contents:

This collection is comprised of the professional papers of Anthony Leeds, anthropologist and university professor. Included are correspondence, field notes, published and unpublished papers, photographs, newspaper and periodical clippings, conference papers, lecture notes, syllabi, critiques of colleague and student work, and personal documents such as calendars, biographical materials, and personal poems.

The materials in this collection reflect Leeds' field work in South America and Portugal, his role as a university professor, and his extensive involvement in various professional organizations. The majority of his anthropological endeavors focused on urban culture, the growth of technology and agriculture in society, and the philosophy behind anthropology and the social sciences. The fieldwork included in this collection is from early in his career, focusing on the study of Cacao agriculture in Brazil and the Yaruro people in Venezuela. The items in this collection document Leeds' various interests and activities.

Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.

Arrangement:

This collection is arranged in 7 series: (1) Correspondence, 1950-1989; (2) Research, 1949-1989; (3) Field Work, 1950-1973; (4) University, 1947-1989; (5) Professional Activities, 1951-1988; (6) Personal, 1946-1989; (7) Photo Album, circa 1952

Biographical Note:

Anthony Leeds was born January 26, 1925 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Because of his parents' strong ties to Europe (both were of Jewish descent, with kin in Germany and England), Leeds spent a fair amount of his childhood in Vienna and Switzerland, where he became fluent in French and German. His father, a businessman and lawyer, died when Leeds was only three years old. Though his family returned to the United States in 1933 due to political unrest in Europe, Leeds continued to be exposed to world cultures and politics through his family. For instance, Leeds' mother was an actor, translator, and psychoanalyst who once studied at Freud's Psychoanalytic Institute in Vienna. His stepfather was not only a sculptor and musician, but also a political activist. This rich familial environment fostered an interest in the social sciences and the arts from a young age.

Leeds also got a taste for rural life when his mother moved to a working farm in Clinton Corners, New York in 1935. For the next nine years Leeds intermittently helped his mother with the farm work and attended a small high school in the area. Of his time spent at Clinton Corners, Leeds felt a strong sense of community which would make a profound influence in his understanding of rural settings as an anthropologist.

Leeds eventually attended Columbia University in New York City and received a B. A. in Anthropology in 1949. He then went directly into the graduate program at Columbia, where his fellow anthropology colleagues included Marvin Harris and Andrew P. Vayda. Some of his favorite professors and later influences were Alfred L. Kroeber, William Duncan Strong, and Karl Polyani. His dissertation was a study of the politics behind cocoa production in the Bahia region of Brazil. Conducted in 1951-1952, Leeds' investigation was one of four in Bahia supervised by Charles Wagley and Brazilian anthropologist Thales de Azevedo. This study led to his dissertation, "Economic Cycles in Brazil: The Persistence of a Total-Cultural Pattern: Cacao and Other Cases," in which Leeds analyzed the topic from a Marxist viewpoint.

After receiving his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Columbia University in 1957, Leeds embarked on his primary career as a university professor. For the next 32 years, Leeds taught at a variety of institutions--first at Hofstra University and City College in New York City, then the University of Texas, and later at Boston University. In between, Leeds found the time to spend two years (1961-63) as the chief of the Program of Urban Development at the Pan-American Union (PAU) in Washington, D.C. He also spent a year (1972-73) at the Latin American centers in England associated with Oxford University and the University of London.

It was during his university years that Leeds focused on urban studies and urban analysis. Though he did conduct a brief study of the Yaruro peoples of Venezuela in 1958, the majority of his field work thereafter concerned urban development and its effects on society as a whole. Leeds made several field trips to Brazil and other areas of South America while working at the University of Texas; he specifically traveled to Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Bogota, Lima, and Santiago de Chile to study the cultural and political cultures of squatter settlements. From 1965 to 1966, Leeds received funding from the Social Science Research Council and the Ford Foundation to conduct a study of twelve specific favelas (squatter settlements) in Rio de Janeiro. For this fieldwork, Leeds organized Peace Corps volunteers, local community workers, academics (both foreign and Brazilian), and favela residents to help collect and analyze the data. It was during this trip that Leeds met Elizabeth Plotkin, a Peace Corps community action worker, who would later become Leeds' second wife and one of his most important collaborators. Together they wrote a book in Portuguese titled A Sociologia do Brasil Urbano (1978), based on their favela research.

In the 1970's Leeds and Plotkin made seven different trips to Portugal to follow different lines of research regarding the area. Leeds specifically researched the labor migration movements from the rural areas to the cities. He later wrote a book on his studies titled Minha Terra, Portugal: Lamentations and Celebrations (The Growth of an Ethnography and a Commitment), though it would go unpublished.

In his later years, Leeds not only took a more active role in various anthropological organizations (specifically those concerning the study of urban development), but he also became an active mentor to many students at Boston University. Leeds supported a variety of graduate student research in anthropology at Boston, as well as student research from other neighboring New England universities. In addition, Leeds began a "Thursday Night Group" that regularly met at his home in Dedham, Massachusetts to discuss a variety of anthropological subjects.

On February 20th, 1989, Leeds died of a heart attack in his Randolph, Vermont farmhouse.

Sources Consulted

Sieber, Timothy R. "The Life of Anthony Leeds: Unity in Diversity." In Cities, Classes, and Social Order, by Anthony Leeds, edited Roger Sanjek, 3-26. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1994.

Chronology

1925 -- Born January 26 in New York, New York

1949 -- Earns B.A. in Anthropology from Columbia University

1951-52 -- Conducts disseration field work in the Cacao region of Bahia, Brazil, where he studies the political economy of cocoa production

1956-61 -- Teaches at Hofstra University and later City College, both in New York City

1957 -- Completes dissertation, titled "Economic Cycles in Brazil: The Persistence of a Total-Cultural Pattern: Cacao and Other Cases"

1958 -- Conducts brief field work studying the Yaruro people in Venezuela

1961-63 -- Head of the Program of Urban Development at the Pan-American Union (PAU) in Washington, D.C.

1963-72 -- Professor at the University of Texas-Austin

1965-66 -- Organizes Peace Corps volunteers, Brazilian and foreign academics, and local residents to conduct an intense study of twelve favelas (Brazilian squatter settlements) in Rio de Janeiro

1972-73 -- Spends a transitional year teaching at the Latin American centers at Oxford University and the University of London

1973-89 -- Professor at Boston University

1976-80 -- Takes several field trips to Portugal with his second wife, Elizabeth Plotkin Leeds; there he studies Portuguese labor migrations

1978 -- Sociologia do Brasil Urbano, co-written with Elizabeth Plotkin Leeds, is published

1989 -- Leeds dies of a heart attack on February 20 in Randolph, Vermont at the age of 64

Selected Bibliography

1964 -- Leeds, Anthony. "Brazilian Careers and Social Structure: An Evolutionary Model and Case History." American Anthropologist 66 (1964): 1321-47.

1965 -- Leeds, Anthony and Andrew P. Vayda. Man, Culture, and Animals: The Role of Animals in Human Ecological Adjustment. Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1965.

1968 -- Leeds, Anthony. "The Anthropology of Cities: Some Methodological Issues." In Urban Anthropology, Research Perspectives and Strategies, edited by M. Fried, M. Harris, and R. Murphy, 31-47. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1968.

1971 -- Leeds, Anthony. "The Culture of Poverty Concept- Conceptual, Logical, and Empirical Problems, with Perspectives from Brazil and Peru." In The Culture of Poverty, A Critique, edited by E. Leacock, 226-284. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971.

1976 -- Leeds, Anthony and Elizabeth Leeds. "Accounting for Behavioral Differences: Three Political Systems and the Responses of Squatters to them in Brazil, Peru, and Chile." In The City in Comparative Perspective: Cross-National Research and New Directions in Theory, edited by J. Walton and L. H. Masotti, 193-248. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1976.

1978 -- Leeds, Anthony and Elizabeth Leeds. A Sociologia do Brasil Urbano. Rio de Janeiro: Zahar Editora, 1978.

1979 -- Leeds, Anthony. "Forms of Urban Integration: "Social Urbanization" in Comparative Perspective." Urban Anthropology 8, no. 3/4 (1979): 227-27.

1981 -- Leeds, Anthony. "Low Income Urban Settlement Types, Processes, Structures, Policies." In The Residential Circumstances of the Urban Poor in Developing Countries, edited by United Nations Centre for Human Settlements, 21-61. New York: Praeger, 1981.

1984 -- Leeds, Anthony. "Cities and Countryside in Anthropology." In Cities of the Mind, edited by Lloyd Rodwin and Robert M. Hollister, 291-311. New York: Plenum, 1984.

Related Materials:

Anthony Leeds' correspondence and writings can also be found in the Marvin Harris papers at the National Anthropological Archives.

Provenance:

These papers were donated to the National Anthropological Archives by Columbia University's Department of Anthropology.

Restrictions:

Graded materials of Anthony Leeds' students and grant applications that he reviewed are restricted. His photo album is also restricted due to preservation concerns.

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