Box 1
Container
Contains 12 Results:
Chapter V: Education
File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: Subseries B:
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This series contains field notes on religion taken by Powdermaker in Indianola, Mississippi and a typescript manuscript of a book based on her Indianola field work (a holograph note reads "Tentative title: Black and White, The Study of a Mississippi Community") that differs from the work ultimately published, After Freedom, A Cultural Study of the Deep South.
Dates:
circa 1932-1938
Hortense Powdermaker Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0038
Abstract
Hortense Powdermaker (1896-1970) was a noted anthropologist, writer, and educator. She was a Professor of Anthropology at Queens College from 1937 to 1968. The collection comprises materials related to her research and field work in Lesu (New Ireland, Papua New Guinea) in the late 1920s, in Indianola, Mississippi in the early 1930s, and in Luanshya, Zambia in the early 1950s, and includes field notes, interviews, survey results, correspondence, and unpublished manuscripts of writings. The...
Dates:
circa 1929-1967