Finding Aid for the Jacques Jerome Pierre Maquet papers LSC.1791
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Title: Jacques Jerome Pierre Maquet papers
Creator:
Maquet, Jacques Jerome Pierre
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1791
Physical Description:
6 Linear Feet
(15 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1939-2001
Date (bulk): 1954-1990
Abstract: Collection documents the academic and research activities of UCLA Professor of Anthropology Jacques Jerome Pierre Maquet and
includes: correspondence, course and lecture files, field notes, film, photographic prints and slides, publications, research
proposals, speeches and presentations, and subject files. Field notes include Buddhist monastic communities in Sri Lanka (1973-1988);
photographic prints document Maquet's field research in the Belgian Congo, Rwanda, and Nigeria (1949-1960), and subsequent
visits to India, Japan, and to the Hopi and Mescalero Apache communities in the American Southwest. Maquet's areas of research
included: Theravada Buddhism, Buddhist monasticism, aesthetic and symbolic perception in the visual arts, and the anthropology
of meditation.
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Language of Material:
English
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[Identification of item], Jacques Jerome Pierre Maquet papers, (Collection 1791). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles
E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Jacques Maquet, 2007.
In many cases, spellings used in this finding aid reflect standard English and do not reflect original French spellings. For
example, Ruanda (French) is listed as Rwanda (English).
Photographic slides (boxes 1-9) reflect Maquet's original order. Spaces in slide holders indicate a missing slide, as per
Maquet's master slide list.
Maquet's numbering system for the photographic slides consists of year followed by slide number. For example, 54/1 indicates
that the slide was taken in 1954 and is assigned number 1 within that year.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
6384125
Jacques Jerome Pierre Maquet was born in Brussels, Belgium on August 4, 1919. He completed his diploma in Humanities (Graeco-Latin)
in 1937 and later received a PhD (1948) and JD (1949) and PhD from the University of Louvain. While he was at the University
of Louvain, Maquet attended Harvard University to study sociology and anthropology under Pitirim A. Sorokin, Clyde Kluckhohn,
and Talcott Parsons (1946-1948). From 1948-1952 Maquet attended the University of London and studied social anthropology,
with an African specialization, under Cyril Daryll Forde of the Dept. of Anthropology. Maquet received his PhD in social anthropology
from the University of London in 1952. In 1973 Maquet recieved a DLit in social sciences from the University of Paris/La Sorbonne.
Maquet held the following positions: field anthropologist (1949-1951) and head (1952-1957) of the Rwanda-Burundi Center at
the Institute for Scientific Research in Central Africa (IRSAC) in Butare, Rwanda; Professor of Anthropology, State University
of Congo, Lubumashi (Elisabethville), Zaire (Belgian Congo) (1957-1960); Director of Studies, Ecole Practique des Hautes Etudes,
VIeme Section (economic and social sciences), University of Paris (1961-1968); and Professor of Anthropology, Case Western
Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (1968-1970). In 1970 Maquet became Professor of Anthropology at the University of California,
Los Angeles (UCLA), later serving as chair of the department (1978-1983). Maquet retired in 1990 as Professor Emeritus.
Maquet was editor of "Jeune Afrique" (1958-1960); "Other Realities," an anthropological series for Undena Publications (1979-1985);
"Linguistic Anthropology" (1980); and "On Symbols in Anthropology" (1982).
Maquet authored many monographs including:
- The Sociology of knowledge; its structure and its relation to the philosophy of knowledge, a critical analysis of the systems of Karl Mannheim and Pitirim A. Sorokin (1951, 1973)
- Aide-memoire d'ethnologie africaine (1954)
- Ruanda: essai photographique sur une societe africaine en transition (1957)
- The premise of inequality in Ruanda: a study of political relations in a central African kingdom (1961)
- Afrique, les civilisations noires: histoire, techniques, arts, societes (1962)
- Power and society in Africa (1971)
- Civilizations of Black Africa (1972)
- Africanity; The cultural unity of Black Africa (1972)
- Introduction to aesthetic anthropology (1979)
- The Aesthetic Experience: an anthropologist looks at the visual arts (1986).
- The Sociology of knowledge; its structure and its relation to the philosophy of knowledge, a critical analysis of the systems of Karl Mannheim and Pitirim A. Sorokin (1951, 1973)
- Aide-memoire d'ethnologie africaine (1954)
- Ruanda: essai photographique sur une societe africaine en transition (1957)
- The premise of inequality in Ruanda: a study of political relations in a central African kingdom (1961)
- Afrique, les civilisations noires: histoire, techniques, arts, societes (1962)
- Power and society in Africa (1971)
- Civilizations of Black Africa (1972)
- Africanity; The cultural unity of Black Africa (1972)
- Introduction to aesthetic anthropology (1979)
- The Aesthetic Experience: an anthropologist looks at the visual arts (1986).
Maquet conducted anthropological field research in Rwanda, Burundi, and Zaire (Congo) from 1949-1960. From 1973-1988 Maquet
conducted anthropological field research on Buddhist monasticism in Sri Lanka. Maquet also conducted field research in India,
Japan, and visited the Hopi and Mescalero Apache communities in the American Southwest. Maquet's areas of research include:
Buddhist monasticism, the aesthetic and symbolic perception in the visual arts, the anthropology of meditation, and Theravada
Buddhism.
The Belgian government established the Institute for Scientific Research in Central Africa in July 1947. The Institute conducted
research on human, zoological, and botanical environments of Central Africa. IRSAC, as the Institute was called, was headquartered
in Leopoldville and later established five research centers throughout the Belgian dependencies of Belgian Congo, Rwanda,
and Burundi:
Kivu Scientific Research Center at Lwiro
Bukavu, Belgian Congo
Rwanda-Burundi Scientific Research Center
Astrida, Rwanda
Tanganika Scientific Research Center
Uvira, Belgian Congo
Scientific Research Center of the Equator, Mabali
Coquilhatville, Belgian Congo
Katanga Scientific Research Center
Elizabethville, Belgian Congo
Jacques Maquet served as Field Anthropologist and Head of the Rwanda-Burundi IRSAC center in Astrida, Rwanda from 1949-1957.
Kivu Scientific Research Center at Lwiro
Bukavu, Belgian Congo
Rwanda-Burundi Scientific Research Center
Astrida, Rwanda
Tanganika Scientific Research Center
Uvira, Belgian Congo
Scientific Research Center of the Equator, Mabali
Coquilhatville, Belgian Congo
Katanga Scientific Research Center
Elizabethville, Belgian Congo
Jacques Maquet served as Field Anthropologist and Head of the Rwanda-Burundi IRSAC center in Astrida, Rwanda from 1949-1957.
This collection has been arranged in the following series:
- Series 1: Subject files, 1956-2001
- Series 2: Photographic materials, 1950-1993
- Series 3: Publications, 1939-1996
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Castaneda, Carlos Arana. (UCLA 1962; Ph.D. 1973) 1962; 1978-1981
Includes: Carlos Castaneda's proposal to the UCLA Graduate Students Research Fund, correspondence, newspaper clippings, 'New
York Times' obituary of Carlos Castaneda, and a statement [c.1978] by several faculty members of the UCLA Department of Anthropology
on Castaneda's dissertation research .
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Course / Lecture files. 1964-1991
Lectures, presentations, and course materials by Jacques Maquet:
Anthropology 258 - Comparative Studies of International Communities: Comparative Monasticism (Fall 1984)
Anthropology 258 - Comparative Studies: Buddhist and Christian Monasticism (Fall 1985)
Anthropology 157 - International Communities (Fall 1985)
Anthropology 233 - Symbolical Anthropology: Body and Self/Not-Self (Spring 1990)
Lecture 64 - Le Phenomene Raciste (1964)
Lecture 65 - Rwanda Refugees in Tanzania (1965, Syracuse University Peace Corps trainees)
Lecture 66 - Race, Culture & Society (May 1966)
Lecture 82 - Anthropological Approach to Art (1982, UCLA Phi Beta Kappa Address)
Schedule for the Study of an Intentional Community (1984)
Lecture 89 - Cross Disciplinary Connections of Anthropology (1989)
Lecture 90 - Innovation in the arts: Japanese and American Approaches (1990)
Lecture 91 - Sinhala Monasticism: A Conceptual Model (1991, Third Sri Lanka Conference, Center for Asian Studies, Amsterdam).
Anthropology 258 - Comparative Studies of International Communities: Comparative Monasticism (Fall 1984)
Anthropology 258 - Comparative Studies: Buddhist and Christian Monasticism (Fall 1985)
Anthropology 157 - International Communities (Fall 1985)
Anthropology 233 - Symbolical Anthropology: Body and Self/Not-Self (Spring 1990)
Lecture 64 - Le Phenomene Raciste (1964)
Lecture 65 - Rwanda Refugees in Tanzania (1965, Syracuse University Peace Corps trainees)
Lecture 66 - Race, Culture & Society (May 1966)
Lecture 82 - Anthropological Approach to Art (1982, UCLA Phi Beta Kappa Address)
Schedule for the Study of an Intentional Community (1984)
Lecture 89 - Cross Disciplinary Connections of Anthropology (1989)
Lecture 90 - Innovation in the arts: Japanese and American Approaches (1990)
Lecture 91 - Sinhala Monasticism: A Conceptual Model (1991, Third Sri Lanka Conference, Center for Asian Studies, Amsterdam).
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Meditation. 1974 - 1978
Contains Personal Orientation Inventory (POI) test (1974); Questionnaire for cross-cultural study of meditation (1973); Sri
Lanka field notes (1977); research notes on Contemporary Theravada Meditation (1975-1978); and publication regarding Theravada/Visuddhimagga.
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Research projects. 1971-1986
Includes research proposals on: Visual perceptions as creativity; Alternate Community [?]; Alternate Cultures (May 24, 1971;
June 1972); Buddhist Monasticism in Sri Lanka (August 19, 1972); Aesthetic and Symbolic Anthropology (1977); Buddhism in the
Cultures of the Pacific Rim (July 27, 1986); and Korean Buddhist Monasticism (Summer 1986).
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Rwanda. 1956; 1964; 1994
Contains essays and newspaper clippings on the genocide in Rwanda, booklet entitled "Les Temps Moderne" by Luc De Heusch (1964)
and an article "Anthropologie d'un genocide: Le Rwanda" (1994), consultation correspondence (1994) and projective test materials
(1956).
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Speeches and Presentations. 1956-1982
Includes the following presentations: " Victime du genocide d'Afrique ne doit pas en devenir coupable" by Ballander et Maquet;
Compte-rendu de la reunion du groupe d'Anthropologie politique Africaine du 31 Mars 1965 - Rapport de M. J. Maquet; "Cultural
Units of SubSaharan Africa" (University of Syracuse, Department of Anthropology, November 19, 1965, 6:00pm); "Culture as a
Social System" - Tsukuba, Japan, 1981; "Visual Forms in Sinhalese Buddhism - An Anthropological Approach," by J. Maquet (paper
prepared for the Fifth Conference of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Hertford College, Oxford, August 16-21,
1982); "Discursive and Contemplative Approaches to Visual Forms in Religious Context," by J. Maquet, 1982; Opening speech
by J. Maquet at the opening of the Exhibit 'Paths into Darkness: From Lincoln to Lennon' by Dan Piel, March 1, 1982.
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Speeches and Presentations. 1983-1988
"Toward a Cross-cultural Concept of the Aesthetic Experience: Indic Traditions and Anthropological Theory," 1983; "Visual
Forms in Sinhalese Buddhism: An Anthropological Approach," 1983; "The Impact of Belief: An Impossible Research?", Lunch talk
by J. Maquet at the Department of History and Literature of Religions, Northwestern University, April 26, 1984; "Dharma Vijaya
Vihara", Vesalk Talk, May 12, 1984; "Self and Non-self in Health and Healing" at Shamans to Holistic Medicine and Beyond -
Cultural Perspectives on Healing at the UCLA Extension One Day Program, April 19, 1986; "An Anthropologist's Shifting Identities",
paper presented at a panel - 'Two Ages of Self and Other: Anthropologists Aging in Two Cultures - at the American Anthropological
Association, 86th Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 1987; "African Art & Aesthetics in Cross-Cultural Perspective," "Africanity,"
and "Internationalizing the Curriculum," papers presented at the Cal. Poly., Pomona, February 19, 1988; "Critical Knowledge
in Humanities and Social Sciences", December 1, 1988 (Africana Bibliography and Research Methods: African Studies/Library
Science); "Anthropologie Esthetique et Symbolique des formes Visuelles", EHESS, Paris, April 12, 1988; "Modele Anthropologique
des Monachismes Buddhiques et Cretiens", College de France, May 5, 1988.
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Maquet photographic slides. 1975-1980
Black/white and color slides originally located in Maquet slide boxes #24-28 (slides numbered: 75/123-130; 76/1-297; 77/1-155;
78/1-80; 79/1-20, 79/40-101; 80/1-109).
Slides of UCLA campus (slide numbers 79/21-39) removed and refiled under "Campus Scenes. 1970-1979" in Photograph Collection
(Rec. Ser. 100, University Archives Reference Collection).
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Maquet photographic slides. 1982-1985
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Maquet photographic slides. 1985-1989
Black/white and color slides originally located in Maquet slide boxes #40-44 (slides numbered: 85/93-203; 86/1-399; 87/1-57;
88/1-132; 89/1-50).
Slides 89/1-174 used for The Aesthetic Experience Mandarin. Slides dating from 1989 also labeled TM (Transcendental Meditation).
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Maquet photographic prints of Africa. c.1955-1965
Black/white and color photographic prints; most photographs taken by Jacques Maquet. Includes images of boats, buildings (exterior
shots), ceremonies/rituals, chiefs/kings, elections, females, and landscapes. Photographs taken in Belgian Congo, Congo, Cote
d'Ivoire, and Rwanda.
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Maquet photographic slides. 1989-1993
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Africa. Males. c. 1955-1961
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Ivory Coast.
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Kathmandu.
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Kusinagara.
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Rwanda: Tableaux d'une Feodalite Pastorale. 1955
Dvd's depict a reconstruction of typical social interactions among Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa communities prior to the arrival of
Europeans in the nineteenth century. Directed by Luc de Heusch; scenario and commentary by Jaques Maquet; narration by Roger
Dutoit. Film is based on the book by Jaques Maquet, "Le Systeme des Relations Sociales dans la Ruanda Ancien." Soundtrack
includes authentic music of Rwanda.
Dvd's copies made from 16mm film (box 14).
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Rwanda: Tableaux d'une Feodalite Pastorale. 1955
Film depicts a reconstruction of typical social interactions among Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa communities prior to the arrival of
Europeans in the nineteenth century. Directed by Luc de Heusch; scenario and commentary by Jaques Maquet; narration by Roger
Dutoit. Film is based on the book by Jaques Maquet, "Le Systeme des Relations Sociales dans la Ruanda Ancien." Soundtrack
includes authentic music of Rwanda.
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