Research in Contemporary Cultures records, 1939-1962, bulk 1947-1952

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Series I: Columbia University Research in Contemporary Cultures, 1946-1981, bulk 1947-1951



Box 18 Folder 5 Proposed project in "Cultural Study of American Minorities of Foreign Origin" by Ruth Benedict, circa 1947



Box 24 Folder 19-20 Manual for Field Workers, circa 1947, 2 folders



Box 25 Folder 1-2 Manual for Field Workers, circa 1947, 2 folders



Box 5 Folder 11-12 Austria Vols. 1-2, 1947, 2 folders



Box 17 Folder 24 Belgium, Bulgaria, Norway, Yugoslavia—Documents and interviews, 1947



Box 6 Folder 14-15 China Vols. 1-2, 1947, 2 folders



Box 7 Folder 1-11 China Vols. 1-13, 1947-1948, 11 folders



Box 8 Folder 1-15 China Vols. 14-23, 1947-1948, 15 folders



Box 9 Folder 1-5 China Vols. 24-28, 1948-1949, 5 folders


Box 9 Folder 6 China no. 624, "The Chinese House," from vol. 25, 1948-1949



Box 23 Folder 6 China—Group minutes, 1948 October 15-1949 March 18



Box 9 Folder 7 China—Interviews and documents, 1946-1949



Box 24 Folder 18 China—Miscellaneous documents, probably duplicates, 1947-1948



Box 17 Folder 13 China—reports by Hsien Chin Hu, circa 1948



Box 9 Folder 12-14 Progress Report 3, "Explorations in Chinese Culture", 1950, 3 folders



Box 10 Folder 4 Progress Report 3, "Explorations in Chinese Culture", 1950



Box 17 Folder 6-7 Progress Report 3, "Explorations in Chinese Culture", 1950, 2 folders



Box 9 Folder 16 "Mental Illnesses in Red China" New York Times report typescript, 1950



Box 17 Folder 11 Chinese Political Character papers #13-35, by John Hart Weakland and Anna Weakland, 1951 February-April



Box 10 Folder 13 Chinese Political Character papers by John Hart Weakland and Anna Weakland, 1951



Box 9 Folder 11 Chinese Political Character—General, 1950-1951



Box 17 Folder 9-10 Chinese Political Character meeting minutes and reports, 1951 January-April, 2 folders



Box 9 Folder 8-9 Chinese Political Character—Minutes, 1951, 2 folders



Box 17 Folder 12 Chinese Political Character—Final Report "An Anthropological Approach to Chinese Communism", 1952 April



Box 9 Folder 10 Chinese Political Character—Final Report "An Anthropological Approach to Chinese Communism", 1952



Box 5 Folder 3-10 Czechoslovakia Vols. 1-8, 1947, 8 folders



Box 11 Folder 3 Czechoslovakia #192-194, on friendship, 1948 October


Box 11 Folder 4 Czechoslovakia group minutes, 1948 September 28


Box 11 Folder 5 Czechoslovakia master dittos, 1948 September-October



Box 4 Folder 13-15 England Vols. 1-2, 1948, 3 folders



Box 6 Folder 1-13 France Vols. 1-9, 1947-1948, 13 folders



Box 11 Folder 6 France—#1-9, 1947


Box 11 Folder 8 France—#75-76, 111, 113, 118, 158, 175, 185, 194, 207, 210, and unnumbered papers, 1947-1948



Box 17 Folder 14 France—#154-156, 159-160, 162, 1948



Box 11 Folder 7 France—Working papers by Rhoda Métraux and Nelly Schargo Hoyt: #142-143, 145-147, 152-153, 158, 207, 209, 211, and unnumbered Interview with Miss C., 1948-1950



Box 17 Folder 15 France—#207, "The Family in the Code Napoleon" by Nelly Schargo Hoyt, circa 1948



Box 11 Folder 9 France—Miscellaneous unnumbered documents and memos from Margaret Mead, 1951-1952


Box 11 Folder 10 France—Group minutes, 1948


Box 11 Folder 11 France—Master dittos, #203 and 209, 1948



Box 10 Folder 1 France—Interviews and documents, 1948


Box 10 Folder 2-3 Progress Report 4, "Some Hypotheses About French Culture", 1950, 2 folders



Box 11 Folder 12 Germany—Vol. 3 #61, "Friendship Pattern in Germany (Preliminary draft for the purpose of cultural comparison)", 1948 September



Box 5 Folder 13 Greece Vol. 1, 1947



Box 11 Folder 13 Greece—Letter from Horace Friess to Jack Randall, on Greeks, 1957 April 27


Box 11 Folder 14 Italy—Group minutes, 1950



Box 3 Folder 11-14 Poland Vols. 1-3, 1949, 4 folders



Box 4 Folder 1 Poland Vol. 4, 1947



Box 11 Folder 15 Poland—Working papers #49-53, 56, 58, 220, 1949


Box 11 Folder 16 Poland—Group minutes, 1948



Box 2 Folder 12-15 Russia Vols. 1-4, 1947, 4 folders



Box 3 Folder 1-8 Russia Vols. 5-10, 1948, 8 folders



Box 11 Folder 17-18 Russia—Working papers #13-20, 33, 74, 77, 81, 85, 108-109, 114, 139, 167, 172, 178, 180, 181, 181b-c, 192, 206, 208, 211-214, 215a-e, 216-219, 221-222, 225-227, 228-229, and two unnumbered interviews, 1948-1950, 2 folders



Box 10 Folder 15 Russia—Papers by Freda Lulinsky, 1949



Box 11 Folder 19 Russia—Group minutes, 1947 December-1950 February


Box 11 Folder 20 Russia—Miscellaneous unnumbered documents and memos, 1947-1949


Box 11 Folder 21-22 Russia—Georgia working papers #1-7, by Freda Lulinsky, 1949-1950, 2 folders



Box 3 Folder 9-10 Jewish Russian Ukraine Vols. 2 and 5, 1947, 2 folders



Box 4 Folder 2-3 Jewish Poland Vol. 3, 1947, 2 folders



Box 18 Folder 6 "The Dynamics of Benefice Among East European Jews" by Natalie F. Joffe, circa 1947



Box 5 Folder 14 Spain Vol. 1, 1947



Box 11 Folder 24 Spain—Documents #3, 5, 11, 1948-1949


Box 11 Folder 23 Spain—Group minutes, 1948



Box 4 Folder 4-12 Syria Vols. 1-5 and minutes, 1948-1954, 9 folders



Box 10 Folder 7 Syria—Interviews and documents, 1948


Box 10 Folder 8 Syria—Group minutes, 1949


Box 10 Folder 9 Syria—Master dittos for Zekiye Eglar Friendship Paper, 1948 October 7


Box 10 Folder 10 Syria—Bibliographies, circa 1948



Box 4 Folder 16-17 Turkey Vols. 1-2, 1947, 2 folders



Box 5 Folder 1-2 Turkey Vol. 3, 1947, 2 folders



Box 11 Folder 25 Child Study—Printed material, 1943, 1948


Box 11 Folder 26 Child Study—Documents, #41, 86, 127, 129, 139 and unnumbered, 1948-1949


Box 11 Folder 27 Child Study—Group minutes, 1948-1949



Box 17 Folder 16 Clinical Group Vol. 1, #1-9, 1947



Box 11 Folder 1 Clinical Group—Meeting minutes, 1947



Box 17 Folder 21 Conveners' Group meeting minutes, 1948 June-November



Box 1 Folder 1-2 Cross-Cultural studies Vol. 1-2, #1-24, 1948-1950, 2 folders



Box 11 Folder 2 Cross-Cultural group—Working papers and documents, 1948-1949



Box 10 Folder 14 Friendship volume, 1948



Box 25 Folder 6 Minutes of General Seminar, 1947 October 30-1950 March 9



Box 17 Folder 25 Erik Erikson, "Zones and Modes in the Psycho-Sexual Development of the Child," RCC 12th General Seminar address, 1948 March 5



Box 18 Folder 2 Publication Conference minutes, 1948 December 9, 1949 January 13



Box 17 Folder 22 Publications: procedures and editorial notes, 1947-1949



Box 25 Folder 4 Margaret Mead correspondence on individual publications from RCC, 1948-1950



Box 17 Folder 23 Reprints and clippings, 1948-1951



Box 18 Folder 3-4 Article reprints, 1948-1951, 2 folders



Box 9 Folder 15 RCC and SSC Document Catalogue photocopy, 1951



Box 10 Folder 17 Papers by Ruth Benedict, circa 1947


Box 10 Folder 11 Working Group in Human Behavior—Group minutes, 1951


Box 10 Folder 12 Working Group in Human Behavior—"Bibliographies of Selected Publications relevant to 1. National Character Structure and 2. American National Character Structure", 1951 February


Box 10 Folder 6 Working Group in Human Behavior, "A Report on National Character", 1951 February



Box 17 Folder 8 Working Group in Human Behavior, "A Report on National Character", 1951 February


Box 17 Folder 17 Administrative correspondence: internal, 1947-1950


Box 17 Folder 18 Administrative correspondence: Columbia University, 1947-1951


Box 17 Folder 19 Administrative correspondence: Office of Naval Research, 1947-1951


Box 17 Folder 26 Payroll and budget items, 1948, 1951



Box 25 Folder 5 Operational memoranda PR-5 and PR-6, circa 1948



Box 10 Folder 5 Progress Report 5, "A Working Paper on Interviews and Other Selected Materials", 1950


Box 10 Folder 16 Progress reports, contract renewal applications, and final report by Margaret Mead, 1948-1951



Box 25 Folder 3 Progress report and final report by Margaret Mead, 1950 February 16, 1951 December 10



Box 17 Folder 27 Columbia University Research in Contemporary Cultures project summary by Margaret Mead, circa 1951



Box 18 Folder 7 "Notes on the Character of Americans from Porto [sic] Rico Now Living in the United States," no author, undated


Box 18 Folder 1 RCC project records locations, 1954-1981