Leslie, Charles

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History of Anthropology NewsletterVolume 2Issue 2 Summer 1975 Article 31-1-1975Archives on the History of Anthropology at theUniversity of ChicagoCharles LeslieThis paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. http://repository.upenn.edu/han/vol2/iss2/3For more information, please contact repository@pobox.upenn.edu.3 SOURCES FOR THE HIS'l'ORY OF ANTHROPOLOGY ARC:H.:nlES ON 'If.l.E HIS'IORY OF AtJ'I'HROPOIOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICACD Working on a the Press Anthroplogy," I have been by the accessibility, variety and doc1:nrents in the Department of Special Collections of the University of Chicago Library G Wit.l:"). the cooperation of the anthro-pology the library further improving the collection. Albert H. of Special Collections, should be richest single body material in folders and filed 88 """'''_,..,.,,yo s degrees in both anthropology a year on the collection, writing provides a sophisticated summary of Redfield's covered by the papers as they relate to his career. The Redfield papers association with institutions from the 'MA and the carnegie of Washington to the United World Federalists and Foundation. correspondence with colleagues records whole range of professional and intellectual issues they raised him between the early 1930s and 1958. :Margaret Redfield has also deposited personal family letters which are particularly interesting because he wrote them while engaged in field research, or while away frau heme to attend conferences and committee meetings. They often describe in a witty manner the details of these activities, and they reveal intimate aspects of Redfield's character. Field notes, diaries, rraps and other research materials fram Tepoztlan, Yucatan and Guaterrala are filed by topic and chronological order. The historian can trace Redfield's collaboration with Alfonso Villa-Rajas, Sol Tax and numerous other associates. His methods of working are fully doCUJ:D.e.."lted by research proposals , summary reports for funding agencies, manuscripts and publications. The historian can study in detail the transforrnation of projects as research progressed frau field VJOrk to published articles books. Mil ton Singer has added 17 boxes of papers on the project which he and the CO!Ilparative Study of CUltures, fundedby the archive boxes are devoted to Redfield's 1951 to 1958, and the correspondence, and Redfield collaborated with civilizations (and some Hoijer). Their work humanities to see and more than I have been able to study or on -- ex.a:nple, many boxes of For historians with other to relating beginning with the papers of anthropologist at the · opened in 1892 and retired scrap books document travels .and and the Orient. The Newberry Library its holdings recently to at the University. Starr failed research or a program at Chicago during sought. newspaper Starr's papers kitsch anthropology program (where had been tentatively following , Cole established the deportment, and good This, too, gave Chicago a anthropological scholarship. , and the 34 boxes of depart-cover the period fran 1929 to the 'J\..L!_u.c:;, they contain Cole 1 s , documents on archaeological coJrrE!SPonc:iertce, of undergraduate and graduate papers on graduate examinations for several years W. II are also included in this collection, which in tone, but hopefully be fleshed out with files. papers and has begun rremos, reports and Ce:nt.E:mrtia.l are available in ll s originality and skill in arranging records CUrrent Anthropology, . initiated the journal and carrying are available for study in conferences, rreeting notes and , and the rest are Associate reply letters. s papers when they beccme available, to study the professional-tr<::tm:;tc):rnted anthropology after the Second World War, role. 

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