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Date:1962
Contributor:Myers, Merlin G.
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Linguistics | Architecture | Kinship | Marriage customs and rites | Economic conditions | Demographics | Gender | Social life and customs | Rites and ceremonies
Type:Text
Genre:Dissertations
Extent:315 pages
Description: This dissertation by anthropologist Merlin G. Myers was submitted to Cambridge University in 1962. The author focuses on the economic features and composition of household groups, political and ritual aspects of matrilineal descent, kinship and marriage, and the effects of these on the household group. He pays particular attention to variables relating to age, gender, and relations between generations. The study is based on Myers' field research in 1956-1958, during which he (accompanied by his wife, whose associations with Longhouse women led to some valuable insights) worked in both English and halting Cayuga. Among other sources, Myers had access to unpublished field notes of William N. Fenton, who also introduced Myers to members of the Six Nations Reserve. This item was a gift of William N. Fenton. Published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2006.
Collection:Household structure among the Longhouse Iroquois of the Six Nations Reserve (Mss.970.3.M99)
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Language:English
Date:1933 and undated
Subject:Eugenics | Population | Demographics | Education | Economic conditions | New York (State)--History | Kinship
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Newspaper clippings
Extent:2 folders
Description: The Eugenics Record Office Records consist of 330.5 linear feet of materials relating to the ERO, founded in 1910 for the study of human heredity and as a repository for genetic data on human traits. The Eugenics Record Office Papers (1670-1964) contain trait schedules, newspaper clippings, manuscript essays, pedigree charts, article abstracts, reprints, magazine articles, bibliographies, photographs, hair samples, postcard pictures, card files, and some correspondence which document the projects of the Eugenics Record Office during the thirty-four years of its operation. Shinnecock (a Long Island group descended from Pequot and Narragansett peoples) materials include Folder "A:9770 #2. Shinnecock Indians" (1933) in Series I. Trait Files, which contains a newspaper clipping of an article titled "Other Tribes May Dwindle But Shinnecock...," mentioning growth between the 1920 and 1930 censuses, as well as the educational, economic, and political divisions within the reservation; and an undated "Shinnecock Indians Pedigree Chart" in a folder of the same name, located in Series IX. Pedigrees (this is an oversized item).
Collection:Eugenics Record Office Records (Mss.Ms.Coll.77)