Box 2

Scope and Contents

This series comprises materials related to Powdermaker’s research and field work in Melanesia (Lesu), the American South (Indianola) and Zambia (Luanshya).

Scope and Contents This series includes an unpublished typescript manuscript with holograph annotations summarizing survey results on the preferences and attitudes of Africans in Luanshya, Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia) towards reading, cinema and radio; transcripts of interviews regarding the cinema and radio; transcripts of conversations relating to religion and church, marriage and family; and correspondence regarding the survey results between Powdermaker and Zambian-based European broadcast and...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This series includes an unpublished typescript manuscript with holograph annotations summarizing survey results on the preferences and attitudes of Africans in Luanshya, Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia) towards reading, cinema and radio; transcripts of interviews regarding the cinema and radio; transcripts of conversations relating to religion and church, marriage and family; and correspondence regarding the survey results between Powdermaker and Zambian-based European broadcast and...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This series includes an unpublished typescript manuscript with holograph annotations summarizing survey results on the preferences and attitudes of Africans in Luanshya, Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia) towards reading, cinema and radio; transcripts of interviews regarding the cinema and radio; transcripts of conversations relating to religion and church, marriage and family; and correspondence regarding the survey results between Powdermaker and Zambian-based European broadcast and...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This series includes an unpublished typescript manuscript with holograph annotations summarizing survey results on the preferences and attitudes of Africans in Luanshya, Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia) towards reading, cinema and radio; transcripts of interviews regarding the cinema and radio; transcripts of conversations relating to religion and church, marriage and family; and correspondence regarding the survey results between Powdermaker and Zambian-based European broadcast and...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This series includes an unpublished typescript manuscript with holograph annotations summarizing survey results on the preferences and attitudes of Africans in Luanshya, Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia) towards reading, cinema and radio; transcripts of interviews regarding the cinema and radio; transcripts of conversations relating to religion and church, marriage and family; and correspondence regarding the survey results between Powdermaker and Zambian-based European broadcast and...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This series includes an unpublished typescript manuscript with holograph annotations summarizing survey results on the preferences and attitudes of Africans in Luanshya, Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia) towards reading, cinema and radio; transcripts of interviews regarding the cinema and radio; transcripts of conversations relating to religion and church, marriage and family; and correspondence regarding the survey results between Powdermaker and Zambian-based European broadcast and...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This series includes an unpublished typescript manuscript with holograph annotations summarizing survey results on the preferences and attitudes of Africans in Luanshya, Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia) towards reading, cinema and radio; transcripts of interviews regarding the cinema and radio; transcripts of conversations relating to religion and church, marriage and family; and correspondence regarding the survey results between Powdermaker and Zambian-based European broadcast and...

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...