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Copy of Letter from Ruth Benedict to Dr. Waldo G. Leland, October 23, 1946
written by Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948, in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 114]: Franz Boas, 1858-1947, Folder 10. Correspondence: Re: Boas, 1943-1946, 1958) (23 October 1946) , 1 page(s)
Copy of typewritten letter from Ruth Benedict to Dr. Waldo G. Leland, American Council of Learned Societies, discusses a [Franz] Boas manuscript that translates Chehalis folktales. Dated October 23, 1946.
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written by Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948, in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 114]: Franz Boas, 1858-1947, Folder 10. Correspondence: Re: Boas, 1943-1946, 1958) (23 October 1946) , 1 page(s)
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Copy of typewritten letter from Ruth Benedict to Dr. Waldo G. Leland, American Council of Learned Societies, discusses a [Franz] Boas manuscript that translates Chehalis folktales. Dated October 23, 1946.
Date Written / Recorded
23 October 1946, 1946
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Letter
Author / Creator
Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948
Person Discussed
Franz Boas, 1858-1942
Copyright Message
Material sourced from the Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, Vassar College. Copyright © 2016 by Mary Catherine Bateson
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Copy of Letter from Ruth Benedict to E. Adamson Hoebel, February 10, 1943
written by Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948, in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 114]: Franz Boas, 1858-1947, Folder 10. Correspondence: Re: Boas, 1943-1946, 1958) (10 February 1943) , 1 page(s)
Copy of typewritten letter from Ruth Benedict to E. Adamson Hoebel encloses a list of Franz Boas' finished linguistic manuscripts (not attached) and says the Kwakiutl manuscript is Boas' finest linguistic work. Discusses publication details. including cost (estimated at $10,000), and mentions the Learned Societies...
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written by Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948, in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 114]: Franz Boas, 1858-1947, Folder 10. Correspondence: Re: Boas, 1943-1946, 1958) (10 February 1943) , 1 page(s)
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Copy of typewritten letter from Ruth Benedict to E. Adamson Hoebel encloses a list of Franz Boas' finished linguistic manuscripts (not attached) and says the Kwakiutl manuscript is Boas' finest linguistic work. Discusses publication details. including cost (estimated at $10,000), and mentions the Learned Societies, Carnegie Institution, Ethnological Society, and Gallatin Fund. Also mentions Harry Shapiro.
Date Written / Recorded
10 February 1943, 1943
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Letter
Author / Creator
Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948
Person Discussed
Franz Boas, 1858-1942
Topic / Theme
Kwakiutl
Copyright Message
Material sourced from the Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, Vassar College. Copyright © 2016 by Mary Catherine Bateson
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Copy of Letter from Ruth Benedict to William E. Lingelbach, November 11, 1946
written by Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948, in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 114]: Franz Boas, 1858-1947, Folder 10. Correspondence: Re: Boas, 1943-1946, 1958) (11 November 1946) , 1 page(s)
Copy of typewritten letter from Ruth Benedict to William E. Lingelbach, librarian, American Philosophical Society, informs Lingelbach that the [Franz] Boas translation of Chehalis folklore is being sent express prepaid. Benedict is 'very glad' to have 'this indispensable translation' added to the Boas Collection....
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written by Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948, in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 114]: Franz Boas, 1858-1947, Folder 10. Correspondence: Re: Boas, 1943-1946, 1958) (11 November 1946) , 1 page(s)
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Copy of typewritten letter from Ruth Benedict to William E. Lingelbach, librarian, American Philosophical Society, informs Lingelbach that the [Franz] Boas translation of Chehalis folklore is being sent express prepaid. Benedict is 'very glad' to have 'this indispensable translation' added to the Boas Collection. Dated November 11, 1946.
Date Written / Recorded
11 November 1946, 1946
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Letter
Author / Creator
Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948
Person Discussed
Franz Boas, 1858-1942
Copyright Message
Material sourced from the Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, Vassar College. Copyright © 2016 by Mary Catherine Bateson
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Partial Manuscript on Categories of Speech
in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 91], Folder 20. Indian Mythology, Ethics -- Notes) (1929) , 3 page(s)
Three pages contain a brief, possibly partial, hand-written manuscript analyzing categories of speech - 'virtues, sins, kinds of people, kinds of status' - essentially as human artifacts, created by earlier generations for their own purposes in the same way the constellations and the zodiac were mapped out. And th...
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in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 91], Folder 20. Indian Mythology, Ethics -- Notes) (1929) , 3 page(s)
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Three pages contain a brief, possibly partial, hand-written manuscript analyzing categories of speech - 'virtues, sins, kinds of people, kinds of status' - essentially as human artifacts, created by earlier generations for their own purposes in the same way the constellations and the zodiac were mapped out. And that 'they impart upon us an illusion of permanence and reasonableness.' A third page is blank but for an ink stamp reading 'From the Pap...
Three pages contain a brief, possibly partial, hand-written manuscript analyzing categories of speech - 'virtues, sins, kinds of people, kinds of status' - essentially as human artifacts, created by earlier generations for their own purposes in the same way the constellations and the zodiac were mapped out. And that 'they impart upon us an illusion of permanence and reasonableness.' A third page is blank but for an ink stamp reading 'From the Papers of Ruth Benedict.'
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Date Written / Recorded
1929
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Research notes
Contributor
Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948
Author / Creator
Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948
Topic / Theme
Anthropological linguistics
Copyright Message
Material sourced from the Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, Vassar College. Copyright © 2016 by Mary Catherine Bateson
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