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| | 2 | Author: | George C. Barker | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Papers of George C. Barker
1903-1958
(bulk 1943-1957) ead | | | | Date(s): | 1903-1958 | | | | Abstract: | Correspondence, research materials, published and unpublished manuscripts and articles, slides, photographs, and one audio tape, primarily from
1943 to 1957, of anthropologist George C. Barker. The collection documents Barker's anthropological research into folk drama and ritual, the social functions of language,
the Pachuco language of Hispanic youths, and Yaqui Indian culture and customs. A 1964 gift to the Southwest Folklore Archives from George C. Barker, Sr. Deaccessioned
from the collection in 1993 were approximately 0.2 feet of duplicates and items of a personal nature. In 1996 two 11 x 14 black-and-white photographs by Alfred A. Cohn
were transferred to the L. Marguerite Collier Collection, Southwest Folklore Center Manuscripts Collection MS 611. This collection was previously titled SWF 004. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Folk drama, Spanish American. | Christmas plays. | Prodigal son (Parable) -- Drama. | Spanish language -- Dialects -- Arizona -- Tucson. | Spanish language -- Social aspects -- Arizona -- Tucson. | Spanish language -- Slang. | Bilingualism -- Arizona -- Tucson. | Mexican Americans -- Arizona -- Tucson -- Languages. | Gangs -- Arizona -- Tucson. | Tucson (Ariz.) --Social life and customs. | Yaqui Indians -- Mexico -- Hermosillo -- Rites and Ceremonies -- Photographs. | Audio tapes. | Correspondence. | Manuscripts for publication. | Photographs. | Slides (Photographs). | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 3 | Author: | Adams, Ramon F. (Ramon Frederick),
1889-1976 | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Ramon F. Adams
papers,
1941-1969 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1941-1969 | | | | Abstract: | This collection includes correspondence and
manuscripts chiefly concerning Western history and literature; it includes
letters from friends, authors, editors, and publishers. Also included are
original typescripts with holograph corrections of revised editions of his
works
Western Words: A Dictionary of the American
West, 1968, and
Six-Guns and Saddle Leather, 1969, both
published by University of Oklahoma Press. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) | Outlaws -- Bibliography | Criminology -- West (U.S.) -- Bibliography | English language -- Dialects -- West (U.S.) -- Glossaries,
vocabularies, etc. | Cowboys -- West (U.S.) -- Language --
Dictionaries | Americanisms -- West (U.S.) -- Dictionaries | Popular culture -- West (U.S.) --
Dictionaries | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 6 | Author: | Acosta, Vicente S., 1918-1983 | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Papers of Vicente S. Acosta, 1947-1983 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1947-1983 | | | | Abstract: | The Papers of Vicente S. Acosta contains professional correspondence,
manuscripts and essays, research materials, and audio tapes documenting
Acosta's interests in the Spanish language, folk songs and folklore and
Southwestern United States and Mexican culture. This collection was previously titled SWF 006. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Teachers -- Arizona -- Tucson -- Archives | Folklorists -- Arizona -- Tucson --
Archives | Folklore -- Mexico | Folklore -- Southwest, New | Herbs -- Folklore | Herbs -- Therapeutic use | Corridos | Folk songs, Spanish -- Southwest, New | Names, Personal -- Arizona -- Tucson | Names, Spanish -- Arizona -- Tucson | Spanish language -- Glossaries, vocabularies,
etc. | Spanish language -- Slang | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 7 | Author: | Shantz, H.L. (Homer LeRoy), 1876-1958 | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Homer Leroy Shantz
papers,
1903-1958 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1903-1958 | | | | Abstract: | Field notebooks, reprint articles, speeches,
survey abstracts, photographs, diaries, and correspondence pertaining to
Shantz's interests in worldwide agriculture and botany. Shantz's various trips
to Africa resulted in extensive field notes, including those for the
Smithsonian African Expedition, 1919 to 1920, and the African Education
Commission, 1923 to 1924. Background material he collected about Africa
encompasses maps; postcards; dictionaries and primers on languages, including
Swahili; also, articles on the people, the areas they inhabited, and specific
problems, such as the tsetse fly, sleeping sickness, forced labor, and race
relations. Photographs of his travels from the Cape to Cairo depict the Nile,
Egyptian ruins, wild and domestic animals, vegetation and the landscape,
villages and cities, and people in tribal dress. Communal activities documented
include cultivation, thatching roofs, building a road, and weaving a large
bamboo mat to cover a bridge walkway. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Plant ecology -- Africa | Plant ecology -- United States | Vegetation surveys -- South America | Vegetation surveys -- Colorado | Vegetation surveys -- Africa | Swahili language -- Dictionaries -- English | English language -- Dictionaries -- Swahili | Agriculture -- Africa | Soils -- Africa | Agriculture -- United States | Soils -- United States | Africa -- Description and travel | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 8 | Author: | Troike, Rudolph C. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Rudolph Troike Bilingual Education Collection
1953-1988,
(bulk 1974-1988) ead | | | | Date(s): | 1953-1988, | | | | Abstract: | Rudolph C. Troike, a linguistics specialist, accumulated many materials throughout his professional career that pertains to bilingual education and bilingualism in the twentieth century. This collection contains materials that follow the evolution of bilingual education in the United States and around the world. Correspondence, research files, periodicals, reports, and manuals are some of the types of materials found within the collection. The collection focuses on the planning, evaluation, policy making, and program development of bilingual education. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Bilingual education and bilingualism | Bilingual education--United States | Bilingual education--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc. | Bilingualism--Case studies | Bilingualism--Political aspects | Bilingualism--Social aspects | Bilingualism--Research--Methodology | Bilingualism--United States | Bilingualism--Latin America—History | Education, Bilingual | Language and languages--Study and teaching--Bilingual method | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 10 | Author: | Uplegger, Francis J.,
1867-1964 | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Francis J.
Uplegger papers,
1867-1964 (bulk
1917-1960) ead | | | | Date(s): | 1867-1964 (bulk
1917-1960) | | | | Abstract: | Includes correspondence, writings, Bible
translations, sermons, reports, and audiotapes, chiefly from 1917-1960, of
Francis J. Uplegger, 1867-1964, and his son, Alfred Uplegger, relating to their
work as Lutheran missionaries on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in
Arizona. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Apache Indians -- Missions | Apache languages | Lutheran Church -- Missions -- Arizona | Missionaries -- Arizona -- Archives | Missions -- Arizona | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 11 | Author: | Franciscans. Province of St. John the
Baptist | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Records of the
Province of St. John the Baptist Franciscans,
1868-1978 (bulk 1906-1965) ead | | | | Date(s): | 1868-1978 (bulk 1906-1965) | | | | Abstract: | The collection includes correspondence,
financial records, official documents, reports, maps, articles, publications,
photographs, postcards, and notes. The bulk of the collection is correspondence
and records relating to the establishment and operation of missions and
schools, primarily at St. Michaels. These document activity between Franciscan
friars, the Navajo population, Catholic organizations, the U. S. Government,
and the Land Commissioner of the Santa Fe Pacific Railroad Company. Included
are materials on Navajo land allotments, education, language, social
conditions, government and church relations, tourism, and origins of the Navajo
Tribal Council. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Missions -- Southwest, New -- History --
Sources | Navajo Indians -- Education | Navajo Indians -- Government policy | Navajo Indians -- Missions | Navajo Indians -- Land tenure | Navajo language | Navajo Indians -- Photographs | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 12 | Author: | Griffen, William
B. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | William B. Griffen
papers,
1955-1965 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1955-1965 | | | | Abstract: | Collection includes handwritten field notebooks and revised notes
of observations of the Seri Indians of Mexico. Most of the notebooks focus on
family organization and social customs of the Seri. Rites associated with
events such as birth, puberty, marriage, and death are recorded throughout the
notebooks. Collection also contains fifty four black and white photographs of
people and buildings taken in Desemboque, Sonora, Mexico, 1955; correspondence
and other materials relating to a paper written by Griffen and Ed Moser
entitled "A Spanish Transcription of Terms from a Native Indian language"; and
photocopies of two published works: "Notes on Seri Indian Culture Sonora,
Mexico," and "Seventeenth Century Seri." | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Seri Indians | Seri Indians -- Genealogy | Seri Indians -- Kinship | Seri Indians -- Pictorial works | Seri Indians -- Rites and ceremonies | Seri language | Anthropologists -- Archives | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 13 | Author: | Smith, William Neil, 1920- | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | William N. Smith papers, 1829-1975
(bulk 1944-1970) ead | | | | Date(s): | 1829-1975 | | | | Abstract: | This collection is divided into seven series: Biographical
Information, General Correspondence, Writings and Publisher Correspondence, Field
Notebooks and Logs, Research Files, Audio-Visual Media, and Supplemental Material. The
collection includes biographical information, correspondence, writings, publications,
field notebooks, field research data sheets, subject files, bibliography cards,
photographs, negatives, color slides, motion picture film, and sound recordings, chiefly
from 1944-1970, of William Neil Smith, relating to his anthropological field work
amongst the Seri Indians of Tiburon Island and the northwest coast of Sonora,
Mexico. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Ethnohistory -- Mexico -- Sonora (State) | Face painting -- Mexico -- Sonora (State) | Indian baskets -- Mexico -- Sonora (State) | Puberty rites -- Mexico -- Sonora (State) | Seri Indians | Seri Indians -- Census | Seri Indians -- Cultural assimilation | Seri Indians -- Genealogy | Seri Indians -- Kinship | Seri Indians -- Music | Seri Indians -- Religion | Seri language | Bow and arrow making -- Mexico -- Sonora (State) | Firemaking | Indian wood-carving -- Mexico -- Sonora (State) | Indians of Mexico -- Social life and customs | Seri Indians -- Boats | Seri Indians -- Bone carving | Seri Indians -- Games | Seri Indians -- Pottery | Seri Indians -- Rites and Ceremonies | Yuman Indians | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
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