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National Anthropological Archives
MS 2003-20 Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy oral history
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS2003-20
- Creators:
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Powers, Willow Roberts, 1943-Leighton, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton), 1908-2007Murphy, Jane M.
- Dates:
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2002
- Languages:
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English.
- Physical Description:
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5 Sound cassettesanalog2 Folders
- Repository:
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of oral history interviews of Dr. Alexander Leighton and Dr. Jane Murphy, conducted by Dr. Willow Powers in 2002 and funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation's Historical Archives Program. The collection includes recordings of the interviews on 5 audiocassettes, interview transcripts, permission forms, correspondence relating to the interview, and background information collected in preparation for the interview.
Biographical / Historical
Biographical / Historical
In 1948, Dr. Alexander Leighton initiated the "Stirling County Study," a post-war longitudinal study of the distribution and amount of mental illness in a general population, and one of the first to do so within the framework of epidemiology. When Dr. Leighton retired from Harvard in 1975, Dr. Jane Murphy, who had been a member of the study since 1951, assumed directorship of the study. Dr. Murphy and Dr. Leighton also conducted numerous cross-cultural studies of mental illness, keeping anthropological ideas as central ingredients in their research.
Administration
Custodial History
Gift of Dr. Willow Powers.
Using the Collection
Citation
MS 2003-20, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Other Archival Materials
Other Archival Materials
See associated ethnology collection.
More Information
Local Numbers
Local Numbers
NAA MS 2003-20
Keywords
Keyword Terms | Keyword Types | ||
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Values -- Ethnographic study of | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Psychiatric epidemiology | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Cultural psychiatry | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Oral history | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Interviews | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Transcripts | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Correspondence | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Notes | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Leighton, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton), 1908-2007 | Personal Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Murphy, Jane M. | Personal Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
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