Most of Ruth Landes's papers relate directly or indirectly to Landes's American Indian research, her work in Brazil, and her study of bilingualism. There is also a considerable amount of material that relates to her experiences (sometimes fictionalized) at Fisk University. There is only small amount of material related to her other interests. Her collection also has material of and relating to the Brazilian folklorist and journalist Edison Carneiro. There is also noteworthy material concerning Herbert Baldus, Ruth Benedict, Elmer C. Imes, Charles S. Johnson, and Robert E. Park. There is a large amount of printed and processed materials in the collection, mainly in the form of newspaper clippings and a collection of scholarly papers.
Scope and Contents:
This collection is mainly comprised of the professional papers of Ruth Schlossberg Landes. Included are correspondence, journals, published and unpublished manuscripts of writings, research materials including field notes and reading notes, photographs, drawings, scholarly papers and publications by other scholars, and clippings from newspapers and periodicals.
Landes's field research on Candomblé in Brazil is well-represented in this collection, consisting of her field journals, writings, and photographs. Also present are Maggie Wilson's stories that were the basis for Landes's The Ojibwa Woman. Unfortunately, Landes was unable to locate her journals for her early research with the Ojibwa/Chippewa, Potawatomi, and Dakota. There are, however, field photographs of the Ojibwa/Chippewa and Potawatomi in the collection. There is also a great deal of her research on groups, especially minorities, in multilingual states with particular focus on the French of Quebec, Basques of Spain and the United States, Boers and Blacks of South Africa, the several socio-linguistic groups of Switzerland, and Acadians (Cajuns) of Louisiana. In the collection are several drafts of her unpublished manuscript on bilingualism, "Tongues that Defy the State." There is also a small amount of material about Black Jews of New York and considerable material about Landes's experience among African Americans when she taught briefly at Fisk University, including her unpublished manuscript "Now, at Athens," containing fictional and autobiographical accounts of her time at Fisk.
Reflections of other facets of Landes's professional activities are also included. Some materials concern her teaching activities, and there is also documentation of her work with the Fair Employment Practices Commission (a federal government agency during the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt) and a similar private organization which immediately succeeded the FEPA; Gunnar Myrdal's research into the plight of African Americans ("The Negro in America"); the Research in Contemporary Cultures project at Columbia University; and the American Jewish Congress.
Among Landes's correspondents are Ruth Benedict, Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, Ralph Bunche, Herbert Baldus, Edison Carneiro, Sally Chilver, Frances Densmore, Sol Tax, Elmer S. Imes, Charles S. Johnson, Robert E. Park, and Hendrik W. van der Merwe.
Arrangement:
The collection is organized into 6 series: (1) Correspondence, 1931-1991; (2) Research Materials, circa 1930s-1990; (3) Writings, circa 1930s-1990; (4) Teaching Materials, 1935-1975, undated; (5) Biographical and Personal Files, 1928-1988; (6) Graphic Materials, 1933-1978, undated
Biographical Note:
Ruth Schlossberg Landes was born on October 8, 1908 in New York City. Her father was Joseph Schlossberg, an activist in the Yiddish labor socialist community and one of the founders of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. She studied sociology at New York University (B.A. 1928) and social work at the New York School of Social Work, Columbia University (M.S.W. 1929). While in graduate school, Landes studied Black Jews in Harlem for her master's thesis, a topic that developed her interests in anthropology.
After graduating in 1929, she worked as a social worker in Harlem and married Victor Landes, a medical student and son of family friends. Their marriage ended after two years when she enrolled in the doctoral program in anthropology at Columbia against her husband's wishes. She kept his surname due to the stigma of being a divorced woman.
At Columbia, Landes studied under Franz Boas and Ruth Benedict, her main advisor. Under the guidance of Benedict, Landes moved away from further study of African Americans to focus on Native American communities. Upon Benedict's suggestion, Landes studied the social organization of the Ojibwa in Manitou Rapids in Ontario from 1932 to 1936 for her Ph.D. fieldwork. Her dissertation, Ojibwa Sociology, was published in 1937. Landes also contributed "The Ojibwa of Canada" in Cooperation and Competition among Primitive Peoples (1937), a volume edited by Margaret Mead. In 1938, Landes published Ojibwa Women (1938), a book written in collaboration with Maggie Wilson, an Ojibwa interpreter and informant.
In addition to studying the Ojibwa in Ontario, Landes also conducted fieldwork with the Chippewa of Red Lake, Minnesota in 1933, working closely with shaman or midé Will Rogers. Her book, Ojibwa Religion and the Midéwiwin (1968) was based largely on her research with Rogers and Maggie Wilson. In 1935 and 1936, she undertook fieldwork with the Santee Dakota in Minnesota and the Potawatomi in Kansas. Like Ojibwa Religion and the Midéwiwin, her books on the Santee Dakota and Potawatomi were not published until several years later—The Mystic Lake Sioux: Sociology of the Mdewakantonwan Sioux was published in 1968 while The Prairie Potawatomi was published in 1970. In between her field research in the 1930s and the publication of The Prairie Potawatomi, Landes returned to Kansas to study the Potawatomi in the 1950s and 1960s.
Landes's plan to continue her studies with the Potawatomi in 1937 changed when Benedict invited her to join a team of researchers from Columbia University in Brazil. Landes was to conduct research on Afro-Brazilians in Bahia, Brazil, while Walter Lipkind, Buell Quain, and Charles Wagley studied indigenous people in the Amazons. To prepare for her research, Landes was at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee in 1937 and 1938 to consult with Robert Park and Donald Pierson and to use the university's library collections of African and African American materials. During that time, Landes also held a teaching position at Fisk and lived in the non-segregated women's residence on campus. Landes later wrote "Now, at Athens," an unpublished memoir containing fictional and true accounts of her experiences at Fisk.
From 1938 to 1939, Landes conducted fieldwork on the role of Afro-Brazilian women and homosexuals in the Candomblé religion in Bahia, Brazil. Unable to move freely by herself in Brazil as a single woman, Landes was accompanied by Edison Carneiro, a Bahian journalist and folklorist. With Carneiro as her companion, Landes was allowed access to rituals and people that would have been closed off to her otherwise. Due to her association with Carneiro, a member of the Brazilian Communist Party, Landes was suspected of being a communist and was forced to leave Bahia early. Publications from her research in Brazil include "A Cult Matriarchate and Male Homosexuality" (1940) and City of Women (1947). She returned to Brazil in 1966 to study the effects of urban development in Rio de Janeiro. In 1967, a Portuguese translation of City of Women was published, a project that Carneiro had commissioned as the first director of the Ministry of Education and Culture's Special National Agency for the Protection of Folklore.
Landes returned to New York in 1939, working briefly as a researcher for Gunnar Myrdal's study of African Americans. Unable to obtain a permanent position at a university, she worked in several other short term positions throughout most of her career. During World War II, Landes was a research director for the Office of the Coordinator for Inter-American Affairs (1941) and consultant for President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Fair Employment Practices Committee on African American and Mexican American cases (1941-44). In 1945, Landes directed a program created by Pearl S. Buck and a group of interdenominational clergy to analyze pending New York anti-discrimination legislation. She moved to California the following year to work for the Los Angeles Metropolitan Welfare Council on a study of race and youth gangs. After her contract ended, she moved back to New York and was hired as a contract researcher for the American Jewish Congress (1948-50). She also participated in Columbia University's Research in Contemporary Cultures (1949-51), studying Jewish families. She coauthored with Mark Zborowski, "Hypothesis concerning the Eastern European Jewish Family." From 1951 to 1952, Landes spent a year in London, funded by a Fulbright fellowship to study colored colonial immigrants and race relations in Great Britain.
After her fellowship ended, Landes returned to the United States and held short term appointments at several universities. She taught at the William Alanson White Psychiatric Institution in New York (1953-54), the New School for Social Research in New York (1953-55), University of Kansas (1957, 1964), University of Southern California (1957-62), Columbia University (1963), Los Angeles State College (1963), and Tulane University (1964). At Claremont Graduate School, Landes helped to develop and direct the Claremont Anthropology and Education Program (1959-62).
It was not until 1965 that Landes obtained a permanent faculty position at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario; she was recruited for the position by Richard Slobodin. Due to Ontario's age retirement law, Landes was forced to retire in 1973 at the age of 65. She continued to teach part-time until 1977, when she became professor emerita.
Landes passed away at the age of 82 on February 11, 1991.
Sources Consulted
Cole, Sally. 2003. Ruth Landes: A Life in Anthropology. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press.
Chronology
1908 October 8 -- Born Ruth Schlossberg in New York City
1928 -- B.A. in sociology, New York University
1929 -- M.S.W., New York School of Social Work, Columbia University
1929-1931 -- Social worker in Harlem Married to Victor Landes
1929-1934 -- Studied Black Jews in Harlem
1931 -- Began graduate work in anthropology at Columbia University
1932-1936 -- Studied the Ojibwa in Ontario and Minnesota (in field periodically)
1933-1940 -- Research Fellow, Columbia University
1935 Summer-Fall -- Studied the Santee Sioux (Dakota) in Minnesota
1935-1936 -- Studied the Potawatomi in Kansas
1935 -- Ph.D., Columbia University
1937 -- Instructor, Brooklyn College
1937-1938 -- Instructor, Fisk University
1938-1939 -- Studied Afro-Brazilians and Candomblé in Brazil, especially at Bahia
1939 -- Researcher on Gunnar Myrdal's study, "The Negro in America"
1941 -- Research Director, Office of Inter American Affairs, Washington, D.C.
1941-1945 -- Representative for Negro and Mexican American Affairs, Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC), President Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration
1944 -- Interim Director, Committee Against Racial Discrimination, New York
1946-1947 -- Researcher, study of Mexican American youth, gangs, and families, Los Angeles Metropolitan Council
1948-1951 -- Researcher, American Jewish Congress, New York
1949-1951 -- Research consultant, study on Jewish families in New York for Research in Contemporary Cultures Project, Columbia University
1951-1952 -- Fulbright Scholar, to study colored colonial immigration into Great Britain
1953-1954 -- Lecturer, William Alanson White Psychiatric Institution, New York
1953-1955 -- Lecturer, New School for Social Research, New York
1956-1957 -- Married to Ignacio Lutero Lopez
1957 Summer -- Visiting Professor, University of Kansas
1957-1958 -- Visiting Professor, University of Southern California
1957-1965 -- Consultant, California agencies (Department of Social Work, Bureau of Mental Hygiene, Department of Education, Public Health Department) and San Francisco Police Department
1958-1959 -- Director, Geriatrics Program, Los Angeles City Health Department
1959-1962 -- Visiting Professor and Director of Anthropology and Education Program, Claremont Graduate School
1962 -- Extension Lecturer, University of California, Los Angeles and University of California, Berkeley
1963 -- Extension Lecturer, Columbia University Extension Lecturer, Los Angeles State College
1963-1965 -- Consultant, International Business Machines (IBM)
1964 January-June -- Visiting Professor, Tulane University
1964 Summer -- Field work with Potawatomi in Kansas Professor, University of Kansas
1965-1975 -- Professor at McMaster University
1966 -- Studied urban development in Rio de Janeiro
1968-1975 -- Studied bilingualism and biculturalism in Spain, Switzerland, South Africa, United States, and Canada (in Spain and the United States concentrated on Basques)
1975 -- Became part-time faculty member at McMaster University
1977 -- Professor Emerita, McMaster University
1978 -- Award of Merit from the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
1991 February 11 -- Died in Hamilton, Ontario
1991 -- Establishment of the Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund at Research Institute for the Study of Man (RISM)
Related Materials:
Correspondence from Ruth Landes can be found in the William Duncan Strong Papers, the Leonard Bloomfield Papers, and MS 7369. The Ruth Bunzel Papers contains a copy of a grant application by Landes.
Provenance:
These papers were donated to the National Anthropological Archives by Ruth Landes in 1991.
Restrictions:
The Ruth Landes papers are open for research. The nitrate negatives in this collection have been separated from the collection and stored offsite. Access to nitrate negatives is restricted due to preservation concerns.
Access to the Ruth Landes papers requires an appointment.
Ruth Landes papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
The revision of this finding aid and digitization of portions of the collection were made possible through the financial support of the Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund.
Buffalo head dance 1 ; Buffalo head dance 2 ; Bear claw or Grizzly bear dance ; Pipe of peace or Calumet dance ; Soldier or Victory round dance ; Love song for flute (6:15) -- Fish dance ; Pipe dance ; Powwow or Horse dance ; Forty-nine dance ; Oh Mary (5:11) --Deer song ; Catholic Ojibwa hymn (2:08) --War rally song ; Bear dance ; Eagle dance ; Maple sugar song ; Hoot owl song 1 (3:35) --Hoot owl song 2 ; Coon song ; Rabbit song ; Medicine song (4:48) --Grass dance song ; Drinking song (1:38) --Bear dance (2:18) -- Eagle dance (2:49) --Wasase rain dance or War dance (2:40) --Scalp dance (:56) --Corn dance (2:10) --Women's dance (3:34) --Fishing dance (3:45) --Stomp dance (3:12) -- Two future projects (1:12).
Track Information:
101 Buffalo Head Dance / Wilson, Wapanuetak Roberts. Drum,Water-drum. Fox language.
102 Fish Dance / Fred Lacasse. Drum. Ojibwa language.
103 Deer Song / Thomas Shalifoe. Ojibwa language.
103 Jesus Wegwissian / Thomas Shalifoe. Ojibwa language.
104 War Rally Song / Susan Shagonaby. Ottawa language.
209 Owa bagish kichi ingodwok nijinishinabek (O for a thousand tongues) / Betty Pamptopee.
Local Numbers:
Folkways.4003; Folkways.1003
FW-COMM-LP-04003
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint):
New York Folkways 1956
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: Six Nations Indian Reserve No. 40 (Ont.), Canada, Ontario, Onondaga Indian Reservation (N.Y.), New York, Beartown (Mich.), United States, Michigan.
General:
Commercial
Track 102 Personnel: Fred Lacasse, George W. Brown, Sam Link, John Martin. Performed by members of native Indian tribes, principally with percussion acc. Production notes: Recorded in the United States and Canada by Gertrude Prokosch Kurath circa 1956.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.
Frog went a-courtin' / Almeda Riddle --Old Mother Hippletoe / J.D. Dillingham --Robin Hood and the peddler / Carrie Grover --Bobby Halsey / E.C. Ball --Round to Maryanne's / Kenneth Atwood --Diez perritos / Arsen.o Rodriguez --Little Sally Water / Pearl R. Nye --Je me suis mis-t-ar courir / Sabry Guidry --Jim Crack Corn / Alec Dunforn --Little rooster / Almeda Riddle --Oh, blue / Thelma, Beatrice, and Irene Scruggs --The gray goose / Washington (Lightnin') -- Untitled fife tune with clapping accompaniment / Ed Young, cane fife; Bessie Jones and Georgia Sea Islanders --Apple tree song / Lonnie Pitchford --Catfish / Joe Patterson --Sally died ; Ronald McDonald ; George Washington ; Bump, bump, bump ; Salome ; Zoodiac ; Zing-zing-zing / Schoolchildren from Washington, D.C. --Think ; Your left ; Cheering is my game ; Hollywood now swingin' ; Dynomite / Barbara Borum and other schoolgirls from Washington, D.C. --All hid / Bessie Jones --I'm runnin' on the river / Three 12-13-year-old girls --La puerta esta quebrada / Govita Gonzales and group --Ojibwa war dance song / Albert, Vernon, and James Kingbird --Chariot / Group of girls -- Dos y dos son cuatro / Alicia Gonzalez --B-A-Bay / Mrs. A.P. Wilson --Today is Monday / Mississippi schoolchildren -- Mister Rabbit / Susie Miller and two boys --Old John the rabbit ; Rabbit / Four girls--Rabbit in the pea patch / Angie Clark --Old grandpaw yet / Mrs. Nell Hampton --Roxie Anne / Samuel Clay Dixon --Go to sleep, little baby / Lester Powell --Dors, dors, 'tit bebe / Barry Ancelet --Come up, horsey / Vera Hall.
Track Information:
101 Frog-Went A-Courtin' / Almeda Riddle. English language.
101 Old Mother Hippletoe / J.D. Dillingham. English language.
101 Robin Hood and the Peddler (Child 132) / Carrie B. Grover. English language.
101 Bobby Halsey / E.C. Ball. English language.
102 Round to Maryanne's / Kenneth Atwood. English language.
102 Diez Perritos / Arsenio Rodríguez. English language.
102 Little Sally Water (Sally Walker) / Pearl R. Nye. English language.
102 Je Me Suis Mis-T-A Courir / Sabry Guidry. English language.
102 Jim Crack Corn (Blue Tailed Fly) / Uncle Eck Dunford. English language.
103 Little Rooster / Almeda Riddle. English language.
103 Oh, Blue / Thelma,Beatrice,Iren Scruggs. English language.
103 The Gray Goose / Washington (Lightnin'). English language.
201 Untitled Fife Tune with Clapping Accompaniment / Bessie Jones, Ed Young. English language.
201 Apple Tree Song / Lonnie Pitchford. Diddley bow. English language.
201 Catfish / Joe Patterson. Quills (Musical instrument). English language.
202 Sally Died / Washington D.C. Schoolchildren. English language.
202 Ronald McDonald / Washington D.C. Schoolchildren. English language.
202 George Washington / Washington D.C. Schoolchildren. English language.
202 Bump, Bump, Bump / Washington D.C. Schoolchildren. English language.
202 Salome / Washington D.C. Schoolchildren. English language.
202 Zoodiac / Washington D.C. Schoolchildren. English language.
202 Zing Zing Zing / Washington D.C. Schoolchildren. English language.
203 Think / Washington D.C. Schoolchildren. English language.
203 Your Left / Washington D.C. Schoolchildren. English language.
203 Cheering is My Game / Washington D.C. Schoolchildren. English language.
203 Hollywood Now Swinging / Washington D.C. Schoolchildren. English language.
203 Dynomite / Washington D.C. Schoolchildren. English language.
204 All Hid / Bessie Jones. English language.
204 I'm Running on the River / Three 12-yr. old Girls. English language.
204 La Puerta Esta Quebrada / Covita Gonzales. English language.
204 Ojibwa War Dance Song / James Kingbird, Albert Kingbird, Vernon Kingbird. English language.
204 Chariot / Group of Girls. English language.
205 Dos y Dos Son Quatro / Alicia María González. English language.
205 B-A-Bay / A. P., Mrs. Wilson. English language.
205 Today is Monday / Mississippi Schoolchildren. English language.
206 Mister Rabbit / Susie Miller. English language.
206 Old John the Rabbit / Four Girls. English language.
206 Rabbit / Four Girls. English language.
207 Rabbit in the Pea Patch / Angie Clark. English language.
207 Old Grandpaw Yet / Nell Hampton. English language.
207 Roxie Anne / Samuel Clay Dixon. English language.
208 Go to Sleep Little Baby / Lester Powell. English language.
208 Dors, Dors 'Tit Bebe / Barry Jean Ancelet. French language.
208 Come Up, Horsey / Vera Hall. English language.
Local Numbers:
FP-RINZ-LP-0373
New World.291
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint):
New York New World 1978
General:
"At head of title: Recorded Anthology of American Music, Inc." Durations on labels. Program notes by Kate Rinzler with texts (in English and other languages), dates and places of original recording, bibliography, and discography (8 p.) bound in container.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.
Handwritten on mount: Pko-ne-gi-zhik', (Hole in the Sky.) A Chippewa Chief
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.01169400
NAA MS.4286
General:
Amended identification taken from Paula Fleming, Native American Photography at the Smithsonian: the Shindler catalogue, Smithsonian Institution, 2003.
Local Note:
Photo by Julian Vannerson or Samuel A. Cohner, Photographers at Mc Clees' Studio, or Possibly by James E. Mc Clees; Treaty Signed 19 April 1858
Black and white Photoprint on Cardboard Mount
Place:
Washington, DC
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Collection Rights:
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Genre/Form:
Photographs
Collection Citation:
Photo Lot 4286, James E. McClees Studio photographs of Native American delegates to Washington DC, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
101 Ojibway Woodland Flute Music / Frank Montano. Flute.
102 African-American Gospel / Queens of Harmony (Gospel group).
103 Hmong Music / Dang Yang, Joe Bee Xiong. Flute,Violin.
Local Numbers:
FP-1998-CT-0076-7
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: Washington (D.C.), United States, June 24, 1998.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. Some duplication is allowed. Use of materials needs permission of the Smithsonian Institution.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.
101 African-American Gospel / Queens of Harmony (Gospel group).
103 Ojibway Woodland Flute Music / Frank Montano. Flute.
Local Numbers:
FP-1998-CT-0079-7
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: Washington (D.C.), United States, June 25, 1998.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. Some duplication is allowed. Use of materials needs permission of the Smithsonian Institution.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.
101 African-American Gospel / Queens of Harmony (Gospel group).
102 Instruments Made and Played / Dang Yang, Frank Montano. Flute,Harmonica.
Local Numbers:
FP-1998-CT-0093-7
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: Washington (D.C.), United States, June 28, 1998.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. Some duplication is allowed. Use of materials needs permission of the Smithsonian Institution.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.
101 African-American Gospel / Queens of Harmony (Gospel group).
102 Ojibway Woodland Flute Music / Frank Montano. Flute.
Local Numbers:
FP-1998-CT-0106-7
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: Washington (D.C.), United States, July 4, 1998.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. Some duplication is allowed. Use of materials needs permission of the Smithsonian Institution.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.
101 African-American Gospel / Queens of Harmony (Gospel group).
102 Ojibway Woodland Flute Music / Frank Montano. Flute.
Local Numbers:
FP-1998-CT-0110-7
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: Washington (D.C.), United States, July 5, 1998.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. Some duplication is allowed. Use of materials needs permission of the Smithsonian Institution.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.
-"The Abnormal among the Ojibwa Indians," Journal of abnormal and social psychology, v. 33, no. 1 (1938), pp. 14-33 (a few annotations)
-"Biracialism in American society: a comparative view," reprint from American anthropologist, v. 57, no. 6 (1955), pp. 1253-1263
-"A cult matriarchate and malehomosexuality," reprint from Journal of abnormal and social psychology, v. 35, no. 3 (1940), pp. 386-397 (electrostatic copy from printed article)
-Comment on articles by Margaret Mead and Victor Goldkind concerning field work as an ideology, The western Canadian journal of anthropology, v. 3, no. 3 (1973), pp. 44-46 (entire issue included)
-Comment on Lou Marano, "Windigo psychosis: the anatomy of an emic etic confusion," Current anthropology, v. 23, no. 4 (1982), pp. 401
-Comment on review of The Ojibwa Woman by Eleanor Leacock, Current Anthropology, v. 20, no. 1 (1979), pp. 184
Collection Restrictions:
The Ruth Landes papers are open for research. The nitrate negatives in this collection have been separated from the collection and stored offsite. Access to nitrate negatives is restricted due to preservation concerns.
Access to the Ruth Landes papers requires an appointment.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Collection Citation:
Ruth Landes papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
The revision of this finding aid and digitization of portions of the collection were made possible through the financial support of the Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund.
