Records of the Columbia University Research in Contemporary Cultures Projects


Collection 4533

1933-1977, undated
(6.4 Linear feet ; 16 boxes)
© Historical Society of Pennsylvania1300 Locust Street
Philadelphia, PA, 19107
215-732-6200

Summary Information

Repository
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Creator
Columbia University Research in Contemporary Cultures Projects.
Creator
Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978.
Title
Records of the Columbia University Research in Contemporary Cultures Projects
ID
4533
Date
1933-1977, undated
Extent
6.4 Linear feet ; 16 boxes
Language
English
Abstract
These files contain copies of materials from the records of the Columbia University Research in Contemporary Cultures Projects, a complete set of which is in the Margaret Mead Papers at the Library of Congress. The projects gathered information on immigrants of different means from a variety of countries, including Austria, Belgium, Czechia and Slovakia, England, Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Russia, Spain, Syria, and Turkey. A portion of the records are also devoted to Jewish studies. The bulk of the files contain reports or edited transcripts of interviews by members of the research groups. Also present are abstracts of the interviews and minutes from meetings of the research groups. Related materials include a small quantity of correspondence, notes, and material related to testing and analytical procedures. In some cases the interview files contain copies of papers based on data generated by the projects. The interviews touch upon a wide variety of subjects from marriage, children, and parenting; to women's health issues concerning menstrual health and pregnancy; to culture, societal norms, and religion.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

 Historical Society of Pennsylvania

1300 Locust Street
Philadelphia, PA, 19107
215-732-6200

Access restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Immediate Source of Acquisition note

Gift of Barbara Lynch, 1986.

Accession number M86-06.

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Related Materials

Related materials

At other institutions:

Margaret Mead papers and South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, 1838-1996, Library of Congfress, Washington, D. C.

Research in Contemporary Cultures records, 1939-1962, bulk 1947-1952 (MS#1762), Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

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Controlled Access Headings

Subject(s)

  • Anthropologists--New York (State)--New York.
  • Anthropology students.
  • Anthropology--Methodology.
  • Ethnology.

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Collection Inventory

Box 1 
Box Folder

Content trans 1 

 1 1

Administrative Staff 

 1 2

Austria and Austrian Tirol Abstracts 

 1 3

Austria I Tirol 

 1 4

Austria 2 

 1 5

Belgium 

 1 6

Child Study I 

 1 7

Child Study II 

 1 8

Child Study III 

 1 9

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Box 2 

 Box
2		 Folder
1
Box Folder

Child Study IV 

 2 1

Child Study Group Minutes 

 2 2

Minutes, Clinical Group 

 2 3

Erickson Chart 

 2 4

Directions for Securing Handwriting Specimens 

 2 5

Tests: German Sentence Completion 

 2 6

Dutch Rorschach 

 2 7

Handwriting Specimens for Dr. Wellersberg 

 2 8

Rorschach 

 2 9

Carolyn Zachary Institute Studies Sentence Completion 

 2 10

Color Tests 

 2 11

Rorschach II 

 2 12

Test Samples 

 2 13

Thematic Apperception Test 

 2 14

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Box 3 
Box Folder

Conveners Group 

 3 1

Cross-Cultural I 

 3 2

Czecho-Slovakia Abstracts 

 3 3

Minutes: Czech Group 

 3 4

Misc. Czech Material 

 3 5

D. Rodnick 

 3 6

Czech 1 

 3 7

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Box 4 
Box Folder

Czech 2 

 4 1

Czech 3 

 4 2

Czech 4 

 4 3

Czech 5 

 4 4

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Box 5 
Box Folder

Czech 6 

 5 1

BU Randall Folklore of Czechoslovakia (found empty 5/15/24) 

 5 2

England 

 5 3

England I 

 5 4

Germany Abstracts 

 5 5

Germany I 

 5 6

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Box 6 
Box Folder

II 

 6 1

Greece - Abstracts 

 6 2

Greece I 

 6 3

Transfile No. 3 - Contents 

 6 4

France 

 6 5

French Group - Minutes 

 6 6

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Box 7 
Box Folder

France I 

 7 1

France II 

 7 2

France III 

 7 3

France IV 

 7 4

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Box 8 
Box Folder

Publication – Rhonda Metraux 

 8 1

France: Lloyd Meadows: Children’s Rorschachs 

 8 2

Italy I 

 8 3

Italy - Abstracts 

 8 4

Italian Minutes 

 8 5

Kinship Terms - Yiddish 

 8 6

Box 9 
Box Folder

Jewish studies I 

 9 1

Jewish studies II 

 9 2

Jewish studies III 

 9 3

Jewish studies IV 

 9 4

Jewish studies – Minutes: Jan 1949-June 1949 

 8 7

Jewish studies Minutes – 1947-1948 

 8 8

Jewish studies – Minutes: July 1949-Oct. 1949 

 8 9

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Box 10 
Box Folder

Jewish studies V 

 10 1

Jewish studies VI 

 10 2

Jewish studies VII 

 10 3

Jewish studies VIII 

 10 4

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Box 11 
Box Folder

Jewish studies IX 

 11 1

J 10 

 11 2

Jewish studies 11 

 11 3

Poland 

 11 4

Poland Minutes 

 11 5

Poland I 

 11 6

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Box 12 
Box Folder

Poland II 

 12 1

Poland III 

 12 2

Sula Benet: Harvard Lecture 

 12 3

Transfile No. 4 - Contents 

 12 4

Russia 

 12 5

Russia 1 

 12 6

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Box 13 
Box Folder

Russia 2 

 13 1

Russia 3 

 13 2

Russia 4 

 13 4

Russia 5 

 13 4

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Box 14 
Box Folder

Russia 6 

 14 1

Russia 7 

 14 2

Minutes: Russian Group, Oct. 1947-Apr. 1948 

 14 3

Russia: Minutes – Apr. 9, 1948-Feb. 20, 1950 

 14 4

Russia Clippings 

 14 5

Phonetic Transliteration 

 14 6

Freda Lulinsky “My Barbarian Grandfather” 

 14 7

Vratch and Lulinsky 

 14 8

Agrarian-Peasant Policy of Russia 

 14 9

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Box 15 
Box Folder

Spanish Group Minutes 

 15 1

Spain 

 15 2

Minutes, General Seminars 

 15 3

Seminars Inf. and Attendance 

 15 4

Minutes: Syria 

 15 5

Index of Z. E’s Syrian material 

 15 6

Syria - Abstracts 

 15 7

Syria I 

 15 8

Syria 2 

 15 9

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Box 16 
Box Folder

Syria 3 

 16 1

Syria 4 

 16 2

Turkey 

 16 3

Turkey I 

 16 4

Turkey II 

 16 5

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