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Anthropologists.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Charles Francis Hockett papers

 Collection
Identifier: 14-25-4614

J. Oscar Alers papers

 Collection
Identifier: 14-25-4627
Content Description

Collection contains publications, coursework, and correspondence relating to Ayers' work in Vicos, Peru and Lima, Peru under the direction of Alan Holmberg and William Whyte of Cornell University. Also includes a survey film (1982) and a video titled "So that Men are Free: Vicos."

Dates: 1963 - 1982

Lauriston Sharp papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-25-2618
Abstract

Papers documenting his professional career, especially his work in Thailand.

Dates: [ca.1940-1990]

Richard D. Cushman papers

 Collection — Box 19: [Barcode: 31924113569523]
Identifier: 4518
Abstract

Notebooks, files relating to the Yao language, reprints in English and Chinese on the Yao Rebellion of 1832, Cornell University anthropology course materials and a set of 23 Yao/Mien paintings (ca. 1950) collected by Richard Cushman from northern Thailand, includes one Yao/Mien shaman headdress.

Dates: [ca. 1950-1981]

Robert Textor papers

 Collection
Identifier: 8915
Content Description The Robert Textor papers consist of field notes, correspondences, manuscripts, photographs, and a few printed articles covering the years approximately 1950 to 1980. The majority of the papers focus on Buddhism in Thailand but include material on other subjects and areas of Southeast Asia, including Indonesia. Textor used the Unisort Analysis Card-Sorting System to organize his field notes. As a result, he amassed thousands of Unisort Cards, all with fieldnotes meticulously typed onto each...
Dates: 1950 - 1984