Research in Progress

History of Anthropology Newsletter

Volume 12 Issue 2 December 1985 Article 5

January 1985

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Henry Barnard

Thomas Buckley ethnography and linguistics in Northwest Cali£ornia.

Hiram Caton Australia) is researching a study on "The De£ense o£ Margaret Mead's Samoa," which treats the reaction o£ American cultural anthropologists to Derek Freeman's critique o£ Mead's research.

Andrew Christenson

is gathering oral histories, still and motion pictures, correspondence, _ and other materials on the disciplinary Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley Expedition, · 1933- 1938, in the course o£ writing a history o£ archeology in the Kayenta Anasazi region o£ northern Arizona and southern Utah.

P.A. Danaher is working on A. R. Radcli££e-Brown and Claude Levi-Strauss.

Emmanuel Drechsel is doing research on the impact o£ Wilhelm von Humboldt <1767-1835> on American Indian linguistics and anthropology in the twentieth century, especialy in the work o£ Edward Sapir.

Jesse Green continues his work on Frank Hamilton Cushing, which includes two volumes o£ correspondence and diaries published by the University o£ New Mexico Press

Pieter Havens is working on a doctoral dissertation on the North American Indian studies o£ the Dutch anthropologist Herman ten Kate (1858-1931>, and is editing a special issue o£ the Dutch JOurnal Antropologische Verkenningen on the history o£ anthropology in the Netherlands.

K.A.R. Kennedy is doing research on the history o£ physical anthropologyin South Asia, with particular attention to the in£luence o£ the Asiatic Society o£ Bengal , beginning in 1784.

Miriam MeiJer <1438 Geranium St. N.W., Washington, D.C.> is doing reseach on the Dutch physical anthropologist, Petrus Camper (1722-1789).

Joyce Ogburn is working on a Master's thesis at the Indiana University on

12 concepts o£ biological evolution in late nineteenth century American anthropologists, viewed £rom the perspective o£ their relationship to natural history rather than their social

Nancy Parezo , is preparing an on the contributions o£ women to Southwestern anthropology and to anthropological theory, which will be accompanied by a conference (on March 14, 1986) entitled "Daughters o£ the Desert: 100 Years o£ Southwestern Anthropology." • Donald Tumasonis

Katherine Weinert kinship studies in American anthropology £rom 1850 to 1890, focussing on Lewis Henry Morgan, a·nd on such later figures as James Dorsey and Alice Fletcher, with reference to the influence o£ late nineteenth century American concepts o£ family, marriage, and gender roles.

BIBLIOGRAPHICA ARCANA

I. Seeing the First Australians

Under this title Ian Donaldson and Tamsin Donaldson have edited a volume ; D.J. Mulvaney, "The Darwinian PErspective" ; T. Donaldson, "Hearing the First Australian" ; Isabel McBryde, "Thomas Dick's Photographic Vision" ; and a number o£ other papers.

II. Recent Dissertations

Fagette, Paul H., Jr. "Digging £or Dollars: The Impact o£ the New Deal on the Pro£essional1zation o£ American Archeology"

Harvey, Joy D. "Races Specified, Evolution Transformed: The Social o£ Scientific Debates Originating in the Societe,I / d' Anthropologie de Paris, 1859-1902"

Weiss, Sheila. "Race Hygiene and the Rational Management o£ Nat- ional E££iciency: Wilhelm Schallmayer and the Origins o£ German Eugenics, 1890-1920" (Johns Hopkins, 1983).

Zernel, John J. "John Wesley Powell: Science and Re£orm in a Positive .