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Title: Terence Hays Papers
Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0706
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, California, 92093-0175
Languages:
English
Physical Description:
3.2 Linear feet
(8 archives boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1956 - 2008
Abstract: Papers of anthropologist and professor Terence Hays. The archive primarily concerns Hays' three field studies in the Papua
New Guinea highlands in 1971-1972, 1981, and 1985, where he researched language and interactions between the sexes. The collection
includes correspondence, field notes and unpublished papers.
Creator:
Hays, Terence E.
Terence Hays Papers, MSS 706. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Acquired 2009.
Scope and Content of Collection
The papers document the professional correspondence and research of anthropologist and professor Terence Hays. The bulk of
the collection is centered largely around three field studies conducted by Hays in Papua New Guinea, and is arranged in three
series: 1) CORRESPONDENCE, 2) FIELD NOTES and 3) WRITINGS.
Terence Hays was born September 30, 1942, in Shenandoah, Iowa. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts in sociology from the University
of Omaha in 1966, a Master of Arts in anthropology from the University of Colorado in 1968, and a Doctor of Philosophy in
anthropology from the University of Washington in 1974.
Hays received two Fulbright Senior Scholar awards and spent the majority of his career at Rhode Island College in the Department
of Anthropology and Geography beginning in 1973. Hays has been a professor emeritus there since 2006.
Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Hays, Terence E. -- Archives
Ethnobiology -- Papua New Guinea -- Eastern Highlands Province
Ethnobotany -- Papua New Guinea -- Eastern Highlands Province
Folk literature -- Papua New Guinea -- Eastern Highlands Province
Man-woman relationships -- Papua New Guinea -- Eastern Highlands Province
Ndumba (Papua New Guinean people) -- Ethnobiology
Ndumba (Papua New Guinean people) -- Ethnobotany
Ndumba (Papua New Guinean people) -- Folklore
Ndumba (Papua New Guinean people) -- Sex role