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,_ !,.• 1... J.. ~ CENTRAL STATES BULLETIN Volume I October-November 19li6 Number 1 .. -·--------------.----------------------------- CURRICULUM REVISION AT CHICAGO In this, its ma,iden issue, the CSB inallgurates the custom of ruill'..._ing fea­ With the inauguration of its course on ture articles written by outstanding 11 Peo:ples of the World, 11 two-thirds of its new anthropologists who are interested in anthropology curriculum. is now in effect at the Central States area. The editors the University: of Chicago" Under the depart- are grateful to Professor Fay-Cooper 1ent' s new plan, three full one-year courses Cole for having consented to be. tht-J ...,.:Jnsti tute a program in general anthropology .first guest wTi ter o which gives the basic training for the Master's degree. Every student, regardless of special interest, must show competence in all of this material. GROwrH OF ANTHROPOL(X}Y IN THE Mimmsr Last year the first of the three courses, 11Human Origins," was given, and this year for Fay--Cooper Cole the first time the new course 11 Peoples of the Wcrld, 11 based on a syllabus prepared by Pro­ fessor Fred Eggan, will be offered. The third In this first issue of The Bulletin it ie cour,se, "Cu1ture, Society and. the Individual," perhaps desirable to 10ok ·back and to observe will come into existence in the Autumn of 1947 how and why Anthropology has developed to its at which time all three courses w111 be offer­ present status in the mid,west. Because the ed simultaneously" Meanwhile, together with I ·writer has been associated with Chicago this 11 the new course, "Peoples of the World, the I article will lay special stress on Illinois.~ iritroductory course·' 11Human Origins, 11 is but without intention of belittl1.ng the contri­ offered for the second time with its sylla-:- butions of nearby states. bus and reading volumes revised on the basfs of the experience of the first year, The new The f:i.rst large-scale attempt to deve1op syllabus and reading volumes are stocked by -Anthropological interest came in connection the University of Chicago Bookstore. with the World's Columbia.ri Expoei tion in 1892 ,, Expeditions were sent to South America., to The series of maps showing the development Indian tribes in the United States and Ca~ada, of culture and of racial types from about while foreign governments were induced to send 225 ,OOO years ago to the year 1900_, which was to Chicago vast collect.ions rela.~ed to the ab­ prepared last year, has been thoroughly re­ original i;:-',Jmbi tants of their colonioe. Among vised on the basis of criticism from anthro­ the young scientists who were in part respon­ pologists_, both in the United States and a­ sible for the gathering and exhibition of ma­ broad, and is now published in three colors terials were men whose names rank high in by the University of Chicago Press, under the Anthropology - Holmes, Boas, Dorsey, Harlan Io title, Time, Space and Man. Smith, and many others. · Sol Tax At the conclusion of the Fair the Field Columbian Mnseum was organized and for -three / 1?I\ years the extensive collections secured from r ! ( ,...--. ) - INVITATION TO MEMBER~ ..P -2- PSYL ,LOGICAL srUDIES AMONG THE OJIBWA ) ~. - The bulletin published during the war by Dr. and Mrs n A, Irving Hallowell arid a the Chicago Anthropological Society has been group of graduate students did field work· a­ +,aken over by the Central States Branch, under mong the Ojibwa last July and August at the the editorship of Professor Mischa Titiev. Lac du F181Ilbeau Indian Reservation in northern All members of the CAS--and any others in­ Wisconsin. The problem was to obtain psychol o­ terested in Anthropology in the midwest--are gi.cal data to be utilized in a comparative urged to ijoin the Central States Brancho Full study of :personality under acculturation, uaing memberships - including membership in the AAA Hallowell~ s material from the Canadian Ot1ibwa and the CSB, and subscriptions to the American as a base-line against which the data from the Anthropologist and to the Bulletin - are $6"00 more acculturated Wisconsin Ojibwa could be per yearo Those who wish to become affiliated measured. or 1y with the CSB as Associate Members may do Of the 800 Indians in residenc'e on the reser­ ao for $1000 per year, which includes a sub­ vation, some data were secured from 260 persons,, scription to the Bulletin. Subscription blarks These ir-cluded 230 Rorschach protocols, 110 will be found on the ninth page o T1~ematic Apperception Test records, free_ d.raw­ Send your dues to Madeline Kneberg, Secret­ ingH ·t,y 84 subjects, and general et.bnological ary-Treasurer, Central States Branch, Uni ver­ material" Of the 227 chilclren between the ages sity of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, as of 6 and 16 li.st.ed on the rollo o:f the reser­ soon as possible. vation school, both Rorschach and Themg.+,ic Ap­ :percep+;ion Test recordB were obtainecl from lOl Fred Eggan The.children used as subjects were :proportional­ President, CSB ly distri.butecl within the same age cat.egGries utilized by the Indian Educat1on Research and ******* by Dr. Hallowell ir: obtaining Rorschachn from the Canadiar. Otjibwa.. As nmch as possible the EDITORIAL NorE adult records gathered were from tho parents of t,hi s group of children, The current number of the CENTRAL srATES The adult Rorschach protocols :were collected BULLETIN marks a ne-w undertaking by the Cen­ by Messrs" Melford Spiro and Ruy Coelho, and tral States Branch of the American Anthro­ Misses Beatrice Moaner and Ericr.a Eichhorn, of pological Association. As its major purpose Nortilwestern University,. Mrn Coelho also +he Bulletin will report anthropological secured all of the children's free drawing ma­ act1vities through-out the Midwest. It will terial Mrs" Robert vTat..rous of Northwestern also serve as an outlet for anriom1cements of gathered the children's Rorschach protocoln, meetings, plans for research prctjects, and and. Mrc W, A. Caudill, of the University of other news events of general. interest to the Chicago., obtained Thematic Apperception Tent CSB o records from the same group of child.reno MrA, To secure adequate coverage of the var:i'.ouf:' Wat.rous and Mr. Cauclill aloo collected four subdivisions of anthropology_, Drs" Kimball, detailed life histories from adolescent and Mekeel, Morgan, Snow_, Tax .• and Voegelin, have post-ado.l.esce:c.t sub jecta ~ _ The field party col-· beer.. appointed associate editors. The editor lat·crated fer par+.. of f:,he summer with M.r,, V:lctor 1 s truly thankful to them for having agreed Barno~w, from C:j} umbia Uni vnroi ty, who had pr8~ +o serve, and for their diligence in securing vioualy dore +.wo seasons f.leld work on -t:;ho and. :preparing copy for the opening issue o reserva-i.icm,, All members of the CSB are urged to feel W.A. Caudi 11 free to co:atrlbute material -pertaining to them­ se.l ve sand the institutions with which they a.re a.ffiliated. Reports of local B.nthrcpology EXCAVATIONS AT KILIARNEY clubs, digests of lectures by visiting speci­ alists, summaries of Master~s and Ph.Do theses, For ~~he past nine years the University of news of staff and currlcular revisions, and Michigan~s Museum of Anthropology, rmder the similar items are :particularly welcome o Con­ leadership of Dr. Emerson F. Greenman, has t:ri buti ons must be typewritten and may be sub­ been conducting excavations near Killarney, mitted to the editor or to any member of the Ont·;aric 'There are three sites that have bem editorial board. The deadline for the next dated from their positions on raised beaches r:ur:rwer is November 30 n (:f lake Huron at 1400_, 2500, and 10 ,OOO ~.o 15_,00 ,Years ago,, The first and youngest. is Mischa Titiev (contd .. p )~) .. ,r-­ ~ I MIDWEsr ANTHROPOLOG ... -3- (continued fro~ Po l) deve1 up a dopar+-,ment but procably no man in the m5.c1west, e1ter made so many friend~ for, or stim-· ~;be Ex.posi.tion were organized under the direc'7. ul.ated. more ir:f srest ir:. Anttr7pblogy .. 1;han did t"ion of Dr,, W. H. Holmes" When he rei:;igned to heo in the U .So National Musewn, there, appeared -· un the scene a man, destined to p1.ay a great lliufer Becomes Curator part in the development of Anthropology in the Central Area. Young George A. Doreey had in­ Thus the st.age wa.s ee+: 'for later deve1 op­ terrupted his training at Harvard ~ o con.duct ment s" In 1915 Dr, Berthold Laufer became an expedition to Peru for t-.he Fair., In 1896 Cur·at.or at the Museum ard at; once ad.ded to hte he joined the staff of Field.Museum and the staff several yriunger men who now play an im-· following year. succeeded Dr.- Hc-,lmes,, Then portant rclo in ·.Yur dlsclpline, V..aeon, I.intm.9 began a period of expansion proba-b1y un:paral-· Strong, and ':Pho:rrrpson are among those vhc; work- leled In American Museums. D0rsey with a great ed w:i r.h h:im. flatr for :populariz.ation,, enlisted the interest . In 1922 ·"' tte ·wr:l tl3r was asked to initiate and support of men of wealth vi.th ~--he rem1lt Anthro:pc1ogica~ work at Ncrthweetern University, -l:hat ex.pedi ti ens were sent 0ver roth Americas; This ·"1-aa soc:r in.tArri.11::;-~-ed by a tr1:p to t.te +c Melanesia to the Philippines and to China" Orient, U:pon his ret;urn he joined the staff' Cnllect.ions-big collections-were deBired to at, the UniveraJ+y cf Chicago a.I.id Dr.
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