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Anthropology and Anthropologists

Guide to the John H. Bushnell Papers, 1948-1976

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John H. Bushnell Papers
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Field notes and manuscripts related to Bushnell's ethnographic work in Mexico.
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Guide to the Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, 1905-1948

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Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers
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Personal and professional papers consisting of correspondence, diaries, notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts, articles, speeches, financial papers, reports, teaching materials, and photographs. Correspondents include Franz Boas with whom she studied and worked. Subjects include American Anthropological Association, Progressive Education Association, West Side Defense Council (New York City), Council Against Intolerance in America, American Association of University Women, American Folklore Journal, Mary Wollstonecraft, Indians of the American Southwest including Pima, Zuni, Dakotas, Sioux, and Shoshone, civil rights, and Japan and Japanese culture. Other items include her published and unpublished poetry; grant proposals; correspondence, clippings, and reports from field work, including her Mescalero trip, 1931-1932; and a draft of Margaret Mead's .
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Guide to the Walter A. Fairservis Papers, 1931-1994

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Walter A. Fairservis Papers
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Correspondence, manuscripts, teaching materials, and other papers related to Fairservis's work as a professor, archaeologist and playwright. Of particular note is his correspondence with his family describing his trips overseas.
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