Series 1: General Correspondence, 1933-1990
Scope and Content Note
Outgoing 1937-1987
Incoming, Beals, Alan R. 1952-1958
Incoming, Herskovits, Melville J. 1937-1946
Incoming, Hockings, Paul E. 1961-1986
Incoming, Kroeber, Alfred L. 1941-1956
Incoming, Law-Yone, Edward M. 1972-1976
Incoming, Linton, Ralph 1942-1947
Incoming, Sapir, Edward 1937-1938
Incoming, Siskin, Edgar E. 1937-1988
Incoming, Spier, Leslie 1937-1950
Incoming, Miscellany, A-Z 1933-1990
Series 2: Biographical Information, 1932-1988
Scope and Content Note
American Museum of Natural History 1934-1936
Bibliographies 1962-1988
Bio-bibliographies 1947-1985
Biographical information 1941-1989
Carnegie Interdisciplinary Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley and Stanford University 1941-1942
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Fellowship 1957-1958
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Fellowship, souvenir program and photograph 1958
Dimensions of Social Life. Essays in Honor of David G. Mandelbaum 1983-1990
Fulbright Fellowship, King's College, Cambridge University 1952-1953
Guggenheim Fellowship, India 1949-1950
Loyalty Oath Controversy, U.C. Berkeley 1950-1951
National Research Council Fellowship, India 1937-1938
Newsclippings 1934-1979
Northwestern University, transcript of grades 1932
Office of Special Services, U.S. State Department 1945-1946, 1977-1986
Operations Research Office, Department of the Army 1949-1954
Research funding requests 1956-1985
Social Science Research Council travel grant, India 1949-1950
South Asian Anthropologist, issue dedicated to Mandelbaum 1984
Yale University, course notes, miscellaneous 1933-1936
Yale University, notes on Edward Sapir's Impact of Culture on Personality course (1) 1933-1934
Yale University, notes on Edward Sapir's Impact of Culture on Personality course (2) 1933-1934
Yale University, notes on Edward Sapir's Languages of the World course 1934
Yale University, notes on Edward Sapir's linguistics course 1932-1933
Yale University, notes on Edward Sapir's phonetics course 1933-1934
Yale University, notes on Edward Sapir's Primitive Languages course 1933-1934
Yale University, notes on Edward Sapir's Primitive Societies course ca. 1932-1933
Yale University, notes on Edward Sapir's lecture to the Friday Night Club 1933
Yale University, notes on Leslie Spier and Edward Sapir's Methods in Anthropology course 1934-1935
Yale University scholarship record 1934-1936
Series 3: Professional and Scholarly Organizations and Conferences, 1946-1988
Scope and Content Note
American Anthropological Association 1957-1971
American Association for the Advancement ofScience 1975-1976
American Social and Cultural Anthropology, Past and Future (Spring Hill Conference) 1974-1979
Association for Asian Studies Conference 1981-1982
Canadian Plains Research Center 1975,1984-1988
Commission on the Study of Peace 1983-1986
Comparative Education Conference 1966
Educational Resources in Anthropology 1958-1963
Edward Sapir Centenary Conference 1982-1985
Edward Sapir Centenary Conference, map 1984
India-America Conference 1947-1949
Institute of Pacific Relations 1952
International Conference of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences 1976-1978
Plains Cree Conference 1975-1976
Plains Cree Conference, photographs and slides 1976
Society for South India Studies Conference 1980-1982
Symposium on Populations and Relationships Between Groups 1946-1948
Union for Social Science Teaching 1965-1966
U.S. National Commission for UNESCO 1958-1962
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research 1949-1952
World Anthropology Project 1976-1984
World Area Research Committee 1947-1950
Series 4: Anthropology Department, University of California, Berkeley, 1940-1976
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding appointment of Mandelbaum 1946-1948
Graduate curriculum 1940-1957
Graduate examinations 1948-1959
Kroeber, Alfred L. 1941-1976
New building 1949-1956
Social Anthropology Curriculum Committee 1971
Series 5: South and Southeast Asia Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1949-1975
Scope and Content Note
Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies 1974-1975
Center for South Asia Studies 1965-1968
Integrated Social Science Research for India 1949-1952
South Asia Studies Committee 1951-1957
Series 6: Writings, 1931-1991
Scope and Content Note
Articles and Monographs, 1931-1991
"Agricultural Ceremonies Among Three Tribes in Travancore" 1937-1939
"Alcohol and Culture" 1961-1981
"All American All-Americans: Geronimo" 1940
"Analyses of Cross-Cultural Education" 1955-1956
"Ancient Themes and Modern Myths" 1971
"Anthropological Concepts and Applied Projects" 1979-1980
"Anthropological Studies of Complex Societies," comments on 1960-1961
"Anthropology and Challenges of Development" 1977-1980
"Anthropology as Study and as Career" 1963-1965; 1987
"Anthropology for the Nuclear Age" 1984
"Anthropology for the Second Stage of the Nuclear Age" 1984
"The Art of Primitive Peoples" 1940
"Badaga" ( Encyclopaedia Britannica) 1957-1967
Behind Mud Walls, foreword 1962
"Beliefs and Births" n.d.
"Boom Periods in the History of an Indian Tribe" 1937
"Burma" 1949
"A Case History of Judaism: The Jews of Cochin" 1974-1975
"Caste and Community Among the Jews of Cochin" 1974-1977
"Ceremony in Gwalior" 1948
"Ceylon" 1949
"Change and Continuity in Jewish Life" 1955
Changes in Aboriginal Culture Following a Change in Environment, as Exemplified by the Plains Cree (Ph.D. dissertation) 1936
Changing India, foreward 1968-1976
"Clans, Tribes and Nations" 1953-1954
"Comments" 1956
"The Concept of `System' in Ethnology" 1931-1962
"Concepts and Methods in the Study of Caste" 1959
"Concepts of Civilization and Culture" 1956-1969
"Cultural Anthropology" 1965-1968
"Culture Change Among the Nilgiri Tribes" 1941
"Curing and Religion in South Asia" 1970
"A Design for Anthropology Curriculum" n.d.
"Development Disdained and Development Engrained" 1985-1986
"Economic Development as Cultural Evolution" 1963
"Edward Sapir: Cultural Anthropologist" 1965-1969
"Entries on Indian Ethnology" 1949
"Ethnology as Science and as Art" 1977
Family and Social Change in Modern India, foreword 1975
"The Family in India" 1942-1948
"Family, Jati, Village" 1967-1968
"Fertility of Early Years of Marriage in India" 1953-1954
"Fertility, Society, and Food in India" 1978-1979
"Folklore as Communication," correspondence and bibliography 1982-1986
"Folklore as Communication," drafts ca. 1981
"Folklore as Communication," notes n.d.
"Form, Variation, and Meaning of a Ceremony" 1953-1954
"Friendship in North America" 1936
"Group Dynamics of an Army Unit" 1950-1951
"A Guide to Books on India and Pakistan" 1941-1953
"Hindu-Moslem Conflict in India" 1947
"The Human Capacity for Peace," correspondence and draft 1984-1986
"The Human Capacity for Peace," notes 1980-1986
Human Fertility in India 1968-1979
"The Indian Science Congress" 1937
"The Indian Tribes of North America" 1947-1950
"Integrating Methods and Concepts" 1969-1970
"Introduction: Process and Structure in South Asian Religion" 1964
"Is There a Pacific People?" 1959
"Japan's Will to War" 1941-1942
"The Jewish Way of Life in Cochin" 1937-1939
"Kota" ( Encyclopaedia Britannica) 1967
Kota manuscript (unfinished) 1946-1956
"The Kotas in their Social Setting" 1956-1957
"Materials for a Bibliography of the Ethnology of India" 1949
"Methods in Cultural Anthropology" 1971
"Modernization in South Asian Studies" 1966-1968
"Myths and Myth-maker" 1952-1987
"Nepal and Bhutan" 1946-1950
"New Directions for South Asian Anthropology" 1976-1978
"The New Nation of Burma" 1950
"New Roots for Refugees" 1940
"Nilgiri Peoples of India" 1967-1968
"The Nilgiris as a Region" 1981-1982
"A Nineteenth Century Development Project in India" 1954-1955
"Notes on Role Change in Developing Societies" 1962
"On the Study of National Character" 1952-1953
"Pacification in Burma" 1950
"Panel Discussions on `Social Anthropology in India'" 1964
"Pattern and Culture Area" 1961
The Plains Cree 1939-1979
The Plains Cree, second edition 1976-1982
"Planning and Social Change in India" 1952-1954
"Polyandry in Kota Society" 1938, 1982, 1987
"Postulates of Social-Cultural Anthropology and Links with Social Psychology" 1976-1984
"The Potentials of Anthropology" 1977-1979
Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark, obituary 1981
"Prolegomena of Jewish Social Studies" n.d.
"Psychiatry in Military Society," correspondence and drafts 1951-1958
"Psychiatry in Military Society," notes 1942-1958
Quinn, Theodora Kroeber, obituary 1978-1979
"A Recollection of Fineday" 1967-1968
"A Reformer of his People" 1958-1960
"Religion in India and Ceylon" 1964
"Religious Factors in Population Growth" 1975-1976
"Role Variations in Caste Relations" 1961-1962
"Sapir, Edward" ( Dictionary of American Biography) 1955-1957
Sapir, Edward, obituary 1941
Sapir Memorial Volume 1938-1941, 1958
Selected Writings of David G. Mandelbaum, correspondence 1982-1987
Selected Writings, introduction n.d.
Selected Writings, "Notes and Thoughts" 1985-1986
Selected Writings, notes for preface and introduction 1983-1987
Selected Writings, outline 1983-1984
Selected Writings, Part I, "Potentials of Anthropology" 1984-1986
Selected Writings, Part II, "Comparative Studies" 1985-1986
Selected Writings, Part III, "Culture and Personality" 1986
Selected Writings, Part XVIII, "Applied Anthropology" 1984
Selected Writings of Edward Sapir 1942-1986
24 "Sex Roles and Gender Relations in North India" 1985-1986
"Social Components of Indian Fertility" 1973
"Social Organization and Planned Culture Change" 1954-1956
"Social Perceptions and Scriptural Theory in Indian Caste" 1960
"Social Stratification among the Jews of Cochin in India and in Israel" 1975-1986; 1981
"Social Trends and Personal Pressures" 1959-1960
"Social Uses of Funeral Rites" 1954-1966
Society in India 1956-1986
Soldier Groups and Negro Soldiers 1951-1958
"Some Effects of Population Growth in India on Social Interaction and Religion" 1974-1975
"Some Meanings of Kinship in Village India" 1965-1967
"Some Notes on Noneconomic Aspects of EconomicDevelopment" n.d.
"Some Recollections of W. Norman Brown" 1975
"Some Shared Ideas" 1976-1981
Spier, Leslie, obituary 1961-1963
"Status-Seeking in Indian Villages" 1968
"The Strength of India" 1946
"The Study of Anthropology" 1963-1964
"The Study of Complex Civilizations" 1954-1956
"The Study of Life History: Gandhi" 1960-1971
1-2 "The Study of Life History: Gandhi" 1972-1977
"A Study of the Jews of Urbana" 1935-1936
"A Study of the Toda," first drafts 1979
"A Study of the Toda," second drafts 1979
"A Study of the Toda," notes and outlines 1970-1984
"Supplementary Paper on Negro Manpower" 1951
The Teaching of Anthropology and Resources for the Teaching of Anthropology 1962-1966
"Technology, Credit, and Culture in an Indian Village" 1952
"Toda" ( Encyclopaedia Britannica) 1954-1967
" The Todas in Time Perspective" 1980
"Transcendental and Pragmatic Aspects of Religion" 1966
"Transcendental and Pragmatic Aspects of Religion," correspondence 1964-1975
"Transcendental and Pragmatic Aspects of Religion," notes and outlines 1961-1979
"Transnatural Curing" 1965-1986
"Unity for India" 1941-1942
"University Museums" 1953
"Utilization of Negro Manpower" 1951
"Variations on a Theme by Ruth Benedict" 1972-1975
Verrier, Elwin, obituary 1965
"The Village Called Rampura" 1959-1978
"The Village Called Rampura," photographs and negatives 1959
"Violence in America" 1967-1968
Wissler, Clark, obituary 1948
"Wolf Child Histories from India" 1935-1959
"Women and Men in India," correspondence 1984-1987
"Women and Men in India," drafts 1985
Women's Seclusion and Men's Honor: Sex Roles in North India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, correspondence 1982-1991
Women's Seclusion and Men's Honor, drafts 1986
Women's Seclusion and Men's Honor, interviews 1983-1984
Women's Seclusion and Men's Honor, notes 1972-1985
Women's Seclusion and Men's Honor, photographs by Elisabeth Bumiller 1986
Women's Seclusion and Men's Honor, reviews 1988-1991
"The World and the World View of the Kota" 1954-1960
Book Reviews, 1936-1977
Book reviews (by Mandelbaum) 1936-1977
Speeches, 1934-1981
Speeches, notes and transcripts 1934-1981
Series 7: Course Materials, 1934-1978
Scope and Content Note
University of Minnesota, 1934-1946
Acculturation course 1940
Anthropology in Action course 1941
Elements of Language course 1939-1940
Ethnology of India course 1939
History of Anthropological Thought and Methodcourse 1940-1941
Indians of the Plains course 1934-1940
Indians of the Southwest course 1939-1946
Introduction to Anthropology course (41) 1938-1940
Introduction to Anthropology course (3401) 1939
Primitive Art course 1939-1946
Psychological Phases of Culture course 1938-1941
Social Organization course n.d.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, 1936-1978.
Anthropology 2A course 1947-1958
Anthropology 2B course 1948-1961
Anthropology 3 course 1968
Anthropology 118A course 1946-1959
Anthropology 118B course 1947-1952
Anthropology 124 course 1947
Anthropology 143A course 1946-1965
Anthropology 143B course 1947-1965
Anthropology 158 course 1974-1978
Anthropology 188A course 1967-1970
Anthropology 188A course 1971-1977
Anthropology 191M course 1971-1972
Anthropology 198 and 198A courses 1946-1955
Anthropology 204B course 1960-1966
Anthropology 218H course 1947-1950
Anthropology 240A course 1967
Anthropology 240B course 1960-1966
Anthropology 240C course 1976-1978
Anthropology 250L course 1972
Anthropology course notes, miscellaneous 1936-1978
Series 8: Field Notes and Research Materials, 1899-1986
Scope and Content Note
Plains Cree correspondence 1935-1982
Plains Cree field journal 8/34-9/35
Plains Cree field notes 6/34-9/35; 7/66
Plains Cree notes 1934-1975
Jews of Ansonia correspondence 1935-1940; 1981-1984
Jews of Ansonia field notes 3/36-8/36
Jews of Ansonia newsclippings 1954-1983
Jews of Ansonia notes 1936
Jews of Ansonia study proposal 1934
Chippewa field journals 6/39-8/39
Chippewa field notes 2/39-9/40
India field journals 12/36-8/37
India field notebooks 2/37-9/38; 12/69-3/73
India field notes, drawings and charts n.d.
India maps 1938
India newsclippings on firewalking 1931-1974
India notes, miscellaneous 1951-1982
India notes on firewalking 1906-1958
India notes on population n.d.
India transcripts of taped interviews 1/59
Jews of Cochin articles and newsclippings 1930-1984
Jews of Cochin correspondence 1937-1986
Jews of Cochin field notes 9/37-10/37
Jews of Cochin notes 1899-1983
Mannan field notes 2/36-3/37
Palliyan field notes 2/37
Urali field notes 2/37-3/37
Kota.
Kota field notebooks 3/37-6/37
Kota field notes 4/37-5/38; 10/49-12/49; 12/58; 1/78; n.d.
Kota field notes, chronological index 4/37-5/38; 1949
Kota field notes, subject index n.d.
Kota funerals 1938-1953
Kota household survey of family group, Aker kiker 1937, 1949
Kota household survey of family group, Aker meker 1937, 1949
Kota household survey of family group, Gager 1937, 1949
Kota household survey of family group, Gagvaliker 1937, 1949
Kota household survey of family group, Iker gager 1937
Kota household survey of family group, Iker kiker 1937, 1949
Kota household survey of family group, Nadiker kiker 1937
Kota household survey of family group, Naryker kiker 1937, 1949
Kota newsclippings 1977-1983
Kota notes, miscellaneous 1938-1959
Kota phonetic key ca. 1938
Kota Subject Files.
Acculturation and non-acculturation, diffusion
Cultural parallels
Nature of the evidence
Situational component
Pattern interrelation
Universal principles
Unforeseen consequences of social action
History; impact of Europeans
HIstory; impact of Konaton
History, general
How patterns came to be, why they are
Philosophy of life, social outlook, beliefs
How we know it is true
Ideal patterns
Form and function
Analagous levelling
Legal fictions
Rule, law, customary procedure
Motif
Motif dynamics
Social integration and stratification
Manipulation of motifs and patterns
Personality, general
Grief
Perception and memory
Motivation
Hostility
Shame
Industry, concept of work
Possession
Love and affection
Personality of Sulli [informant]
Personal habits and hygiene, daily round
Gesture
Personality of Thesingh [informant]
Status personality
Quarrels, cases, decisions
Nature of fights, terms of abuse threats, expressions of hostility
Violence, theft
Sanctions
54 14a Compulsive patterns
Variant patterns (approved or indifferent)
Deviant patterns (disapproved)
Innovations
Alternate patterns
Pattern paradigms (hierarchies)
Dropped patterns
Pattern momentum and inertia
Symbolism and symbolic acts
Stories
Animals; cow, oxen
Animals; buffalo
Animals; dog, chicken, bee, horse
Botanical
Cultivation and land use
Dress
Personal adornment and dress
Economics, wealth, poverty
Rationing and government control of economic life
Fines, money, coins
Material culture, general
Material culture; ironwork, gold
Material culture; utensils, pottery
House and parts of house
Place names, geographical notes, parts of village, travel
Associates and intertribal relation
Kurumbas
Pariahs and other castes
Toda
Languages and speech
Age
Childbirth and pregnancy
Names
Children, childhood, child care
Adolescence and youth
Formal schooling
Curing and health
Death and funerals
Family life
Friendship
Talac (reciprocation)
Houses, streets, home
Inheritance
Interpersonal relations
Leadership
Cooperation and non-cooperation
Kinship
Kin-Joint family
Child and parents
Kin-Clan and clan functions
Kin-Mother's brother and other mother's kin
Kin-In-laws, affinal kin
Kin-Brothers and fraternal equivalence
Marriage and divorce
Co-wives
Cross-cousin and cross-cousin marriage
Gotgarn and koyltal (officials)
Prestige and status
Government, politics, police
Parties among Karap and Mamul
Rank and seniority
Sex and sexual jealousy
Telul (menstrual seclusion hut)
Widows and widowers
Women
Villages
Intervillage councils
Village meetings
Kalac (Gudalur)
Kurgoj (Sholur)
Menar (Kilkunda)
Porgar, Agal (Kotagiri)
Attitudes to supernatural
Magic, spells
Evil eye and preventive magic
Ceremonialism
Deities and temples
Food, kitchen, drink
Kervai (the new gods)
Mariamn and Sivan (Hindu deities)
Oaths and vows, promises
Omens and dreams
Origin story
Priests and diviners
Priests
Diviners
Seeress
Ritual elements
Auspicious days, people, numbers, astrology
Hairdress
Moon, sun, time
Non-ritual elements
Purity, purification, defilement
Washing and bathing
Salutations and bows
Soim (right hand and foot)
Dances
Cinema and drama
Concepts of beauty
Humor
Games
Musicians
Liquor, opium, betel
Biographical and personal
Index to sources
Toda.
Toda field notebooks 12/75-1/76;1/78-3/78; 12/78-1/79
Toda field notes 5/68; 12/69-3/70; 2/73-3/73; 11/75-1/76; 1/78-3/78; 12/78-1/79
Toda field notes, subject index 1968-1971
Toda genealogies 1973
Toda newsclippings and articles 1906-1971
Toda notes 1970-1983
Piljain, Evam, Children of Love n.d.
Piljain, Evam, notes on conversations 1971
Shaposhnikova, L.V., The Secret Tribe of the Blue Hills n.d.
Shaposhnikova, L.V., The Secret Tribe of the Blue Hills, notes 1966-1980
Toda Subject Files.
Outsiders' impressions of Toda
W.H.R. Rivers on the Toda
Face-opening ceremony
Funerals
Tools
Afterworld
Badaga
Polygamy
Magic and superstitions
Relations with outsiders
Agriculture and livestock
Ritual sayings and blessings
Clothing and furnishings
Family
Sex roles
Siblings
Women and girls
Polyandry
Wives
Betrothal and gift exchange
Marriage disputes
Cloak-giving
Children
Clans
Matrilineage
Poyol (affinal kin)
Kinship
Moieties
Inter-group relations
Politics
Buffalo
Buffalo cult
Buffalo, care of
Buffalo milk
Dairy herd
Priests
Sacred buffalo
Dairy ritual
Worsol priests
Kagvali priests
Ti priests
Religious beliefs and mythology
Moon
Taboos
Spatial concepts
Dreams
Ceremonies involving buffalo
Giving salt to buffalo
Modvart (temple) ritual
Buffalo migration
Calf sacrifice
Pasture burning
Rites of passage
Pregnancy and childbirth
Child-rearing
Betrothal and wedding
Menstruation
Gift-giving
Death and funeral customs
Temples
Building and thatching
Ordination
Readmittance to tribe
Prayers and vows
Pilgrimage
Cultural exhibitions
Ceremonies and rituals
Joking
Songs and dances
Speeches and sayings
Quarrels
Etiquette and manners
Drugs and alcohol
Conflict resolution
Wealth, poverty, money
Sorcery
Personalities
Noim (justice tribunal)
Illness
Marriage
Ceremonies
Diviners
Legal cases
Family disputes
Christian missionaries
Education
Government intervention
Government officials
Government aid programs
New customs
Schools
Old customs
Modernization
Continuity and change
Conclusions
Civilization and culture, notes 1952-1983
Myth and history, notes 1938-1959
Religion, notes 1959-1982
Society and social structures, notes 1961
Values, notes 1950-1958