Title:
A social anthropologist in Britain and Berkeley : oral history transcript / 2002
University history series
Creator/Contributor:
Benedict, Burton, creator, interviewee.
Creator/Contributor:
Riess, Suzanne B., interviewer.
Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.
Abstract:
Family in Baltimore and New York City; early interests, film, Hollywood; Air Force Altitude Training Center, WWII; Harvard
Dept. of Social Relations; faculty Gregory Bateson, Florence Kluckhohn; London School of Economics, thesis, Raymond Firth;
marriage to Marion Steuber, London friends and activities; Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill, 1954, ethnographic work;
research in Mauritius, 1955-1957, continuing interest in family planning programs; LSE faculty, colleagues, Cambridge Conference,
Royal Anthropological Institute, interest in role analysis, ethnographic films; UC Berkeley Dept. of Anthropology since 1966:
faculty Elizabeth Colson, William Shack, others, innovative teaching, department chairship; research in Seychelles, 1960,
1974, Men, Women, and Money; social aspects of the move to Berkeley; UC administrative roles: Divisional Dean, Letters & Sciences,
Budget Committee, Study Abroad Program, Lowie Museum of Anthropology: PPIE Exhibition, directorship; discusses worlds fair
scholarshp, zoo education, Oakland Zoo, careers of daughters Barbara and Helen. Appended articles by Benedict.
Date:
2002 (issued)
Subject:
n-us-ca
Benedict, Marion
Colson, Elizabeth -- 1917-2016
Shack, William A
University of California, Berkeley. -- Dept. of Anthropology -- Faculty -- Interviews
University of California, Berkeley. -- Dept. of Anthropology -- History
London School of Economics and Political Science -- Faculty
Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.
Robert H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology.
Ethnologists -- California -- Interviews
Ethnology -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- California
Ethnology -- Seychelles
Ethnology -- Mauritius
College administrators -- California -- Berkeley -- Interviews
Note:
Burton Benedict ; with introductions by William Simmons and Lesley A. Sharp. Interviews conducted by Suzanne B. Riess in 2000-2001.
Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Forms part of the University history 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 3406 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:
biography
Oral histories.
Physical Description:
print
1 v. (xvii, 342 p.) : ports. ; 29 cm.
20 sound cassettes.
Language:
English
Identifier:
http://nma.berkeley.edu/ark:/28722/bk0005z0v5c
BANC MSS 2002/347 c
Phonotape 3406 C:1-20
Origin:
California
Copyright 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.