The Renato Rosaldo papers document the professional activities of the cultural anthropologist, field researcher and poet Renato Rosaldo. The materials consist of field notes, correspondence, administrative files, photographs, audio cassettes, and other materials.

Renato Rosaldo is a cultural anthropologist, field researcher, professor, and a poet. He was born in Champaign, Illinois in 1941 and graduated from Harvard College in 1963 with a Bachelor's of Arts in Spanish History and Literature. In 1971 Rosaldo graduated from Harvard University with a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology. He studied the Ilongot in northern Luzon, Philippines, as well as an ethnological study in San Jose, California. Rosaldo taught at Stanford from 1970 to 2003 and served as the director of the Stanford Center for Chicano Research as well as Chair of the Stanford Department of Anthropology. Rosaldo also was President of the American Ethnological Society from 1991 through 1995 and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is currently (2019) the Director of Latino Studies at New York University and a Fellow at the New York Institute of the Humanities. In 2004 he won an American Book Award for his book of poetry, "Prayer to Spider Woman/Rezo a la Mujer Arana".

26 Linear Feet (47 boxes: 35 manuscript storage boxes, 6 record storage boxes, 4 cassette boxes, and 2 flat boxes)

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