National Anthropological Archives

MS 2009-15 May Mayko Ebihara oral history interviews with anthropologists

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS2009-15
Creators:
Ebihara, May, 1934-2005
Arensberg, Conrad M. (Conrad Maynadier), 1910-1997
Conklin, Harold C., 1926-2016
Davenport, William
Griffin, James B. (James Bennett), 1905-1997
Foster, George McClelland, 1913-
Hanks, Jane Richardson, 1908-2014
Hanks, L. M.
Heizer, Robert F. (Robert Fleming), 1915-1979
Hockett, Charles Francis
Kirsch, Thomas G.
Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960
Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn
Mandelbaum, David G.
Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978
Meggitt, Mervyn J., 1924-
Miller, Robert J., 1923-1994
Miller, Beatrice Diamond, 1919-
Miner, Horace M.
Murdock, George Peter, 1897-1985
Murphy, Robert
Murra, John V. (John Victor), 1916-2006
Posposil, Leopold
Rouse, Irving, 1913-2006
Sharp, Lauriston
Shils, Edward, 1910-1995
Smith, Robert J.
Dates:
circa 1959-1986
Languages:
English
.
Physical Description:
1 Item
document box and 34 sound cassettes
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
May Mayko Ebihara's oral history interviews with Conrad Arensberg (3/7/84); Harold Conklin (1/26/82); William Davenport (8/19/82); James B. Griffin (10/7/81); Jane Richardson Hanks (8/6/82); Lucien M. Hanks (8/7/82); Robert Heizer and George Foster (10/2/74); Charles Hocket (8/25/81); Thomas Kirsch (8/25/81); Alfred Kroeber, et al. on Sapir (dub 5/11/1959); Floyd Lounsbury (1/27/82); David Mandelbaum (11/9/78); Margaret Mead (12/8/66); Mervyn Meggitt; Robert and Beatrice Miller (7/29/86); Horace Miner (10/7/81); George P. Murdock (8/20/82); Robert Murphy (10/17/80); John V. Murra (8/24/81); Leopold Pospisil (1/28/82); Irving Rouse (1/27/82); Lauriston Sharp (5/6/82); Edward Shils (11/19/83); Robert J. Smith (8/26/81). Also includes typewritten transcripts for some of the above, as well as for interviews with Theodore Stern and David H. French. The collection also contains notes on anthropology departments at Columbia University, University of Chicago, University of Michigan, and University of Pennsylvania.

Administration

Custodial History
Collection donated by May Mayko Ebihara's husband, Marvin Gelfand.

Using the Collection

Citation
Manuscript 2009-15, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Other Archival Materials

Other Archival Materials
May Ebihara's Reed College bachelor's thesis (1955), "An Ethnohistorical Study of the Shoshoni Indians of the Northern Basin," was received with the collection and transferred to the John Wesley Powell Library of Anthropology.

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Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 2009-15


Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Anthropology -- History Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Oral histories (document genres) Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Interviews Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
French, David H. (David Heath), 1918- Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Stern, Theodore, 1917- Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
University of Chicago. Department of Anthropology Corporate Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
University of Michigan. Department of Anthropology Corporate Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
University of Pennsylvania. Department of Anthropology Corporate Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Columbia University. Department of Anthropology Corporate Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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