Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Freeman, Paul, 1928-
- Abstract:
- Series 1 contains video cassettes of field trips to rock art sites in California and elsewhere with supporting documentation. Series 2 contains video and files regarding Ethnopsychiatry, a term coined by George Devereux, which reflects Freeman's professional interests in Transcultural Psychiatry, and his avocational interests in rock art, archeology, anthropology, and ethnology. Series 3 contains correspondence, notes, and research materials, chiefly relating to Freeman's book, The Rock Art Lithographs of Lala Eve Rivol.
- Extent:
- Manuscript materials: 3 boxes (1.2 linear ft.) Video materials: 58 videocassettes
- Language:
- English
Background
- Scope and content:
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The Paul Freeman Video Project and Papers, 1975-2006, contains video cassettes of field trips to rock art and Petroglyph sites in California and elsewhere with supporting documentation. Series 2 contains video cassettes and files regarding Ethnopsychiatry. The term Ethnopsychiatry was coined by George Devereux, and reflects Paul Freeman's professional interests in Transcultural Psychiatry, and his avocational interests in rock art, archeology, anthropology and ethnology. Series 3 contains correspondence, notes, and research materials, chiefly relating to Freeman's book, The Rock Art Lithographs of Lala Eve Rivol.
Series 3 includes copies of correspondence, reports, inventories, and a few copyprints of images done in 1936-1938 by Rivol and others in the Lithograph Project, part of the Work Project Administration's Federal Art Project, based in San Francisco under Joseph A. Danysh, advisor. Of interest is Freeman's correspondence, 1977-1997, with the artist, Eve [Rivol] Zuehlsdorff, whom he located living in Minnesota, in which she describes her work and the art scene in San Francisco in the 1930s.
Arrangement of first two series follows Paul Freeman's original index with some modifications to conform with standard library procedures. The finding aid lists the contents of the video cassettes and the corresponding file folders contain indexes and supporting material for use with the cassettes. Appendix 1, located in the finding aid copy in the Bancroft reading room contains Paul Freeman's Index which includes expanded information about contents of videos. Both cassette and folder should be paged and used together.
The collection forms a part of the Bay Area Rock Art Research Association Archive.
- Biographical / historical:
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Established in 1983, Bay Area Rock Art Research Association (BARARA) is an avocational association of professionals and amateur enthusiasts who share a dedication to rock art conservation, research and education in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California. BARARA publishes a bi-annual newsletter, organizes field visits to rock art sites, sponsors the Bay Area Rock Art Conservation and Education Fund, the Bay Area Rock Art Archive at the UC Berkeley Bancroft Library, and other rock art conservation activities.
The Rock Art Video Project was compiled and edited by Paul Freeman with the help of Ed Jones. The material to be edited consisted of Super 8 mm movie film from the 1980s, VHS videotapes from the early 90s, then Hi 8, and finally Digital 8 video.
- Acquisition information:
- The Bay Area Rock Art Archive was given to The Bancroft Library by Paul Freeman for the Bay Area Rock Art Research Association in 2001. Additions were made in May and October 2005 and in 2006.
- Physical location:
- For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Access and use
- Location of this collection:
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University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft LibraryBerkeley, CA 94720-6000, US
- Contact:
- 510-642-6481