University of Chicago Library Guide to the University of Chicago Department of Anthropology Records 1929-1997 © 2012 University of Chicago Library Table of Contents Descriptive Summary 3 Information on Use 3 Access 3 Citation 4 Historical Note 4 Scope Note 5 Related Resources 8 Subject Headings 8 INVENTORY 8 Series I: Fay-Cooper Cole Papers 8 Series II: Research 24 Subseries 1: Committee on the Ethno-history of the Upper Mississippi Valley24 Subseries 2: Archaeology Summer Research 25 Subseries 3: Archaeology, General 26 Subseries 4: Rachel Commons - Leo Srole Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) Research 28 Series III: Alphabetical Files 30 Subseries 1: Correspondence 30 Subseries 2: General Alphabetical Files 32 Subseries 3: Wenner Gren Symposium on Anthropological PhD Curricula 44 Series IV: Microfilm 46 Subseries 1: Chiapas 46 Subseries 2: Guatemala 47 Subseries 3: Fox 49 Subseries 4: India 50 Subseries 5: Miscellaneous and Unidentified Microfilm 51 Series V: Buildings and Space 52 Series VI: Teaching 54 Series VII: Administration 56 Series VIII: Faculty and Staff 76 Series IX: Finance 86 Subseries 1: Department Budgets 86 Subseries 2: Lichtstern Funds and Requests 88 Subseries 3: National Science Foundation [NSF] 89 Subseries 4: National Institute of Mental Health [NIMH, USPHS, NIH] 97 Subseries 5: Other Faculty and Student Grants 104 Subseries 6: Miscellaneous Finance 111 Series X: Students 114 Subseries 1: Student Files 114 Subseries 2: Exams 153 Subseries 3: Grades 156 Subseries 4: Aid and Awards 156 Subseries 5: Jobs and Recommendations 157 Descriptive Summary Identifier ICU.SPCL.ANTHRODEPT Title University of Chicago. Department of Anthropology. Records Date 1929-1997 Size 73 linear feet (146 boxes) Repository Special Collections Research Center University of Chicago Library 1100 East 57th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 U.S.A. Abstract The Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago was founded in 1929 under the chairmanship of Fay-Cooper Cole. The collection comprises records of the department from its inception through 1997. It includes the Fay-Cooper Cole Papers, information and data from early archeological, linguistic and socio-cultural anthropological fieldwork, early materials on teaching and curriculum, files on department buildings and space, administrative and financial papers and documentation, faculty and staff information and student files. Information on Use Access Series VII: Administration contains central administrative files from the Department of Anthropology, Division of Social Sciences, Collegiate Division and University Administrations. These are subject to 30-year restriction (R-30). Series VIII: Faculty and Staff contains salary and budgetary information, as well as information related to hiring practices and is restricted for 50 years from the date of creation (R-50). Series IX: Finance contains long-term budget information and information on invidual student and faculty grants and are therefore restricted for 50 years from the date of creation (R-50). Series X: Student Files, contains evaluative student material including grades, exam scores, and recommendation letters and must be restricted for 80 years (R-80) from their date of creation. The remainder of the collection is open for research. 3 Citation When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: University of Chicago. Department of Anthropology. Records, [Box #, Folder #], Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library Historical Note The Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago was founded in 1929 under the chairmanship of Fay-Cooper Cole, but had a longer historical presence at the University. Anthropology was established as a field of early interest at the University of Chicago through William Rainey Harper’s appointment in 1892 [the first year that classes were held] of Frederick Starr as the first faculty member in anthropology. This was one of Harper’s first acts as the inaugural president of the University of Chicago. Starr was originally appointed into the “scientific department”, but with Harper’s development of the “social science” (or sociology) department under Albion W. Small, he was quickly reappointed. During the period of his appointment until his retirement in 1923, Professor Starr frequently traveled, conducting research in the United States and Mexico, as well as in Japan, Korea, the Philippines and Africa. Starr was an immensely popular teacher and lecturer, but his frequent travels regularly interrupted instruction in anthropology, necessitating the continued administrative integration of Anthropology with the department of Sociology. Following Starr’s retirement, the University offered a part-time appointment to Fay-Cooper Cole, who had done long-term fieldwork in the Philippines in 1906, and was employed at the Field Museum. Cole consolidated his position, lobbied for and achieved the separation between the departments of sociology and anthropology in 1929, and facilitated the recruitment and appointment of the brilliant linguistic anthropologist Edward Sapir, a second-generation student of Franz Boas who helped to shift the intellectual culture of the department away from Starr’s museum orientation to the knowledge of the patterns of social behavior, and especially of symbolism. Sapir’s influence inspired linguistic anthropological fieldwork by Manuel Andrade, Harry Hoijer and Father Bernard Haile amongst various communities in the United States and Mexico. Sapir’s appointment was followed shortly by that of Robert Redfield, whose policy-orientation towards contemporary America and interest and concern with contemporary social issues reveals the influence on the department of anthropology of the Chicago School of Sociology and its chair, Robert E. Park (who was also Redfield’s teacher and father in law). Redfield and Tax’s early research on rural and urban communities in Yucatan (and subsequently Guatemala) further articulated this influence. In addition to small portions here, larger collections on this research can be found in the papers of Robert Redfield and Sol Tax as well as the papers of the Chiapas Project. 4 Early research also included the archeological excavation of important sites in Illinois, including the Kincaid Mounds, which for many years served as a summer “field school” for anthropology graduate students and a key site where modern archeological field methods were developed and revolutionized. This research revealed how certain archeological features in these sites established the state of Illinois as central in the understanding of the etho-history of the Mississippi Valley region. The department produced various monographs and a comparative pictorial survey (conducted primarily by Thorne Deuel) of the archeology of the region. A significant moment in early departmental history was the initially temporary appointment of British social-anthropologist Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown to the faculty to replace Sapir’s initially temporary position at Yale. Radcliffe Brown’s reworking of Durkheimian themes in his ahistorical approach to social structure and function reoriented the department towards the “social science” from which it had since departed. This perspective contrasted sharply with Sapir’s historically particularist Boasian framework, resulting in a revealing schism between the “socially” and “culturally” oriented anthropologists in the department. Both their respective “temporary” appointments became permanent, until Radcliffe-Brown’s departure for Oxford in 1937 and Sapir’s death in 1939. In the late 1950’s the recruitment of Lloyd Fallers, Clifford Geertz and David Schneider from the University of California Berkeley breathed new life into the department following the death of Redfield (of Leukemia in 1958) and the departure of Sherwood Washburn and Lloyd Warner. These former three scholars reoriented the department towards a symbolic approach to anthropology, which had a monumental impact on the field. These young scholars also oriented the department towards the ongoing recruitment of “star” anthropologists who would revolutionize the field. The personal and professional papers of these three scholars are all available for research in the University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center. Subsequent faculty hires with a significant impact on the culture, research and ongoing influence of the department of anthropology include Marshall Sahlins, Bernard Cohn, Michael Silverstein, Jean and John Comaroff, Terence Turner, Stanley Tambiah, Nancy Munn, Valerio Valeri and George Stocking. These scholars have all further articulated the themes that have long concerned Chicago anthropologists with increased attention to the relationship between anthropology and history, colonialism and imperialism and semiotic approaches to culture. Rooted in these historical and contemporary influences, the University of Chicago’s Department of Anthropology has continued to be one of the premier departments in anthropological instruction and research in the world. Scope Note The records of the University of Chicago Department of Anthropology include materials from 1929 when the Department was founded as a distinct entity under the Chairmanship of Fay- Cooper Cole until 1996. Periods in this timeframe are unevenly represented with the bulk of materials from the 1960’s to 1996. 5 Series I: Fay-Cooper Cole Papers includes the professional papers of Professor Fay-Cooper Cole. This alphabetically ordered series incorporates Cole’s professional