GUIDE TO THE AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION RECORDS, 1904-2005 [Bulk Dates, 1915-1996] With information dating back to 1902 and forward to 2007 Alan L. Bain November 14, 2014 National Anthropological Archives Smithsonian Institution 4210 Silver Hill Road Suitland, Maryland 20746 301-238-1310 www.nmnh.si.edu/naa 1 Table of Contents Administrative History .................................................................................................................................. 4 Scope And Content Note ............................................................................................................................ 10 Restrictions ................................................................................................................................................. 13 Extent .......................................................................................................................................................... 13 Provenance .................................................................................................................................................. 13 Related Collections ..................................................................................................................................... 13 Processing Note .......................................................................................................................................... 14 Language of Materials Note ........................................................................................................................ 14 Container List.............................................................................................................................................. 15 Series 1. Office of the President’s Papers. 1916, 1946-1967, 1979-2005 .............................................. 15 Subseries 1. Clyde Kluckhorn (President 1947). 1946-1948 ............................................................... 15 Subseries 2. Harry L. Shapiro (President 1948). 1948-1949 ............................................................... 17 Subseries 4. Ralph L. Beals (President 1950). 1949-1951 .................................................................. 20 Subseries 5. William W. Howells (President 1951). 1950-1951 ......................................................... 22 Subseries 6. Wendell C. Bennett (President 1952). 1951-1952 ......................................................... 22 Subseries 7. Frederick (Fred) Eggan (President 1953). 1952-1953 .................................................... 23 Subseries 8. John Otis Brew (President 1954). 1947-1955 ................................................................ 23 Subseries 9. George P. Murdock (President 1955). 1954-1956 ......................................................... 25 Subseries 10. Emil Walter Haury (President 1956). 1954-1958 ......................................................... 26 Subseries 11. E. Adamson Hoebel (President 1957). 1956-1957 ....................................................... 28 Subseries 12. Harry Hoijer (President 1958). 1957-1958 ................................................................... 29 Subseries 13. Sol Tax (President 1959). 1958-1960, with information dating back to 1954 ............. 30 Subseries 14. Margaret Mead (President 1960). 1958-1961 ............................................................. 32 Subseries 15. Alexander Spoehr (President 1965). 1964-1965.......................................................... 34 Subseries 16. John P. Gillin (President 1966). 1963-1966 .................................................................. 34 Subseries 17. Frederica de Laguna (President 1967). 1965-1967 ...................................................... 35 Subseries 18. Nancy Oestreich Lurie. (President 1984-1985). 1983-1986......................................... 38 Subseries 19. Roy Abraham Rappaport (President 1988-1989). 1979-1998, with publication copies dating back to 1964............................................................................................................................. 42 Subseries 20. Elizabeth Margarethe Brumfiel (President 2003-2005). 1916, 1993, 1998-2005 ....... 57 Series 2. Administrative Records, 1904, 1915-1953 .............................................................................. 61 Series 3. Executive Secretary Records. 1947-1967 ................................................................................ 86 2 Series 4. Executive Secretary And Executive Director, Records, 1967- 2007 [Bulk Dates, 1967-1996], With Information Dating Back To 1902 ................................................................................................ 126 Subseries 1. General, A-Z, 1967- 2000, with information dating back to 1902 and financial data going back to 1954 ............................................................................................................................ 127 Subseries 2. Anthropological Research Service, 1973-1979, with information dating back to 1928 .......................................................................................................................................................... 282 Subseries 3. Anthropology Curriculum Study Project, 1960-1973 ................................................... 288 Subseries 4. Committee on Ethics 1961-1991 ................................................................................. 300 Subseries 5. Committee on the Status of Women in Anthropology (COSWA); Committee to Study the Academic Employment of Women in Anthropology (CSAEWA); and Academic Employment of Women in Anthropology (AEWA), 1969-1994 .................................................................................. 309 Subseries 6. Visiting Lecturer Program, 1959-1972 ......................................................................... 317 Series 5. American Anthropological Association, Annual Meeting, Printed Materials, 1935-1997 .... 320 Series 6. American Anthropological Association: News Bulletin, Bulletin, Fellow Newsletter, Newsletter, Anthropology Newsletter, April 1946 – December 1990 .................................................. 323 Series 7. American Anthropological Association: Publications. Includes Annual Reports, Distinguished Lectures, Guides to Departments of Anthropology, Proceedings, Directories, and Special Studies, 1965-1994 ............................................................................................................................................. 327 Series 8. Non-American Anthropological Association Newsletters. 1970-1976, 1984, 1994-1995 ..... 329 Appendix A. Past American Anthropological Association Presidents, 1902-2009 ................................. 330 3 Administrative History American Anthropological Association Development and Creation of a Secretariat Most of early American anthropology focused on indigenous Native Americans and can be traced back to 1784 when Thomas Jefferson carried out stratigraphic excavations of the Indian mounds on his land in Virginia.1 Jefferson’s interest continued and was strongly reflected when as President he instructed Meriwether Lewis (Corps of Discovery Expedition also known as the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806) to record the names of the nations he encountered along with their numbers, languages, traditions, laws and customs.2 Local ethnological and anthropological associations were later established, such as the American Ethnological Society (AES), founded in New York, 1842, and the Anthropological Society of Washington (ASW), created in Washington, DC, 1879. Anthropology as a national science was recognized in 1882, when the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) created a Section (H) for Anthropology. By 1896, the community of anthropologists began informal discussions regarding the establishment of a national organization.3 These discussions were held among members of the AES and the ASW, while informal talks (sanctioned by the AAAS) were held by Section H members on establishing a national group. At the Section H meeting a decision was reached between those members who wanted a national organization and those who were concerned about diverting attention and support away from the AAAS. With formal approval by the AAAS, Section members of the Association began holding their own winter meetings, separate from the AAAS annual conference, which continued through 1901-1902. With national leadership coming from the Anthropological Society of Washington and the American Ethnological Society, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) was formed and incorporated in Washington, DC, in 1902. Two major compromises were reached. The Anthropological Society of Washington discontinued publishing the American Anthropologist and surrendered the journal name. The new journal would be called the American Anthropologist, New Series, and would be edited by representatives of all anthropological sections in the United States and Canada. This journal began publication in January 1899. The second agreement concerned whether the national organization should be opened to anyone interested in anthropology (W. J. McGee) or should only constitute professional anthropologists (Franz Boas). The matter was settled when it was decided that membership would be opened to anyone, but that control of the organization would reside in the hands of a council composed of professional members, only.4 The AAA was designed to promote