Containers:

Cartons 9-15, Box 3

Dates:

1899-1986

Scope and content:

Series 8 contains a wealth of detailed field notes and journals. Mandelbaum continued his research and writing on the Nilgiri Hill tribes, particularly the Kota and Toda, from the 1930's through the 1980's. He visited the Plains Cree in Saskatchewan to record the Sun Dance Ceremony many years after carrying out his initial fieldwork, which had formed the basis for his doctoral dissertation at Yale University.

Included in this series are field notes, field journals, research notes, correspondence, newsclippings, and subject files concerning the Plains Cree, Jews of Ansonia, Connecticut, Chippewa, Cochin Jews, and peoples of India. The files are arranged in the order in which Mandelbaum did his fieldwork with each group, except that India materials have been kept together. The last few folders in the series contain notes on general topics, such as religion, civilization and culture, and myth and history.

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