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Finding the themes : oral history transcript : family, anthropology, language origins, peace and conflict / 2001.
BANC MSS 2001/122 c; Phonotape 3179 C:1-20
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Finding the themes : oral history transcript: family, anthropology, language origins, peace and conflict / 2001University of California source of community leaders oral history series
Creator/Contributor:
Foster, Mary LeCron, 1914-2001, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Riess, Suzanne B., interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
LeCron and Cowles family history in Iowa, friends, schools, Des Moines neighborhoods; life themes, rituals, illness; studying
anthropology at Northwestern University, Melville Herskovits; marriage to George Foster and study in Vienna, 1938; fieldwork
in Mexico: Sierra Popoluca, 1941, long-term work in Tzintzuntzan; mounting anthropology museum exhibitions; Ph. D. in linguistics,
UC Berkeley; teaching linguistics at Cal State Hayward; organizing 1977 Wenner-Gren symposium, "Fundamentals of Symbolism";
children Melissa and Jeremy, and family life in Mexico, Washington, and Berkeley, vacations, social groups; integrating anthropology
and peace, PACT, International Peace Academy, Ploughshares; Language Origins Society and current work on global language reconstruction.
Appendices include "Cognitive Requisites for Language" and "Countering Offense: Institutionalized Alternatives to Military
Action" by Foster; and an interview by Jan Thomas with Foster on the methodology and findings of language origins research.
Date:
2001 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caFoster, Mary LeCron -- 1914-2001 -- Interviews
University of California, Berkeley. -- Dept. of Anthropology -- Faculty
Anthropologists -- California -- Interviews
Linguists -- California -- Interviews
Language and languages -- Research
Language and languages -- Origin
Peace -- Research
Linguistics -- Research
Note:
Mary LeCron Foster ; with introductions by Robert A. Rubinstein and Maxine Sheets-Johnstone. Interviews conducted by Suzanne
Riess in 2000. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Forms part of the University of California Source of community leaders series.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Audio tape recording of the interviews also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3179 C:1-20.
Also available online.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Volume includes index.
Type:
biographyOral histories.
Physical Description:
print
1 v. (xv, 337 p.) : ports. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
20 sound cassettes.
Language:
English
Identifier:
http://nma.berkeley.edu/ark:/28722/bk0005z0x16
BANC MSS 2001/122 c
Phonotape 3179 C:1-20
Origin:
CaliforniaClassification:
GN27 .F67 2001Copyright Note:
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.