Institute of Social Anthropology photograph collection relating to Latin America
39 Prints (silver gelatin)
7 Posters (silver gelatin)
Photographs made as part of the work of the Institute of Social Anthropology (ISA), some of which have been mounted on posters for a Smithsonian Institution Regents Exhibit. The photographs document people, the built and natural environments, agricultural work, and events (including dances and a Catholic procession) in Colombia, Brazil …
Isabel T. Kelly collection of photographs of Totonac people and archeological sites in Mexico
Kelly, Isabel T. (Isabel Truesdell), 1906-
Photographs made by Isabel T. Kelly in Tajin, Papantla, and elsewhere in Mexico. There are images of dances and dancers (including Volador "Flying" dance, Guagua, and Negrito dances), Totonac people, a Totonac wedding, and pyramids and relief sculpture at El Tajin Site. The photographs are enlarged prints, mounted and signed …
Ozzie G. Simmons papers
1980
bulk 1950-1953
Ozzie G. Simmons (1919--988) served as field director in Peru for the Bureau of American Ethnology's Institute of Social Anthropology (ISA) from 1949 to 1952 and as Consulting Anthropologist for the Institute of Inter-American Affairs, Chile. The papers in this collection mainly concern his field research on the role of alcohol in the community of Lunahuaná, Peru. The collection also contains draft manuscripts on the activities of the public health service in Lima and Chimbote, Peru, and his study of medical centers in Chile.
Felix Webster McBryde films
Linear feet
Papers, films and photographs of Felix Webster McBryde, cultural geographer, mostly related to his work in South and Central America. Also some papers of wife, Frances McBryde. Supplementary materials: water colors, paper records. Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context …
Institute of Social Anthropology records
The Institute of Social Anthropology was an autonomous unit of the Smithsonian Institution which existed from 1942-1952. The objectives of the Institute of Social Anthropology were to work in cooperation with the institutions in certain Latin American republics which had requested assistance in anthropological work; the Institute of Social Anthropology had two main objectives: 1) Training of personnel in the concepts and techniques of anthropology; 2) Acquisition of a body of scientific information concerning the basic rural populations that is fundamental to any program affecting Latin Americans as well as to science and education. The research provided an understanding of the manner of living, agricultural systems in relation to environmental factors, economic life, crafts and industries, food habits, health status, social organization, religion, language, literacy, and basic attitudes and interests of the people. From a scientific point of view, these studies revealed the most recent changes and the factors making for change in cultures that in many instances can be traced back more than 2,000 years through archaeology and post-conquest written history. From a practical point of view, the findings were indispensable to any action programs, both governmental and private, concerned with matters of health, education, soil erosion, commercial development, colonization, marketing, and so on.
Website Records
This accession consists of Twitter posts, known as tweets, using the hashtag #SIForensic between July 28 and September 2, 2015. This hashtag was promoted by the National Museum of Natural History for tweets related to forensic anthropological research performed on graves found at the site of the Jamestown, Virginia colony. The tweets were …
MS 3487 Notes on Mohawk clans and Huron bands
AMS Teharonhiawagon, Holder of Heavens (Handbook ?).
MS 1785 Ojibwe and Ottawa ethnology, linguistics and physical anthropology
MS 3598 Notes on Social Organization- The Family, the gens, the clan
Also Ohwachira; notes on suffrage, succession and function of clans; Akianer (Cuoq's List); Seneca clans, kinship terms.
MS 2645 Notes on social organization of the Kansas Kickapoo
Whitewater, Arthur
