| SOCIETY FOR
HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY (est. 1967), Records The Society for Historical
Archaeology (SHA) was established in 1967 at the International Conference on Historical
Archaeology that met in Dallas, Texas. The SHA was incorporated in 1968 under the laws of
Pennsylvania. By its constitution, the SHA serves as "an educational organization to
promote scholarly research in and dissemination of knowledge concerning historical
archaeology." Its focus is "the era since the beginning of exploration of the
non-European parts of the world by Europeans, with the prime concern in the western
hemisphere."
The constitution provided for membership open to all directly or indirectly interested
in historical archeology. Control of SHA affairs was vested in a board of directors made
up of the president, president-elect, secretary-treasurer, and elected directors. The
constitution has been amended in 1975, 1976, 1984, and 1985. Among the arrangements
affected has been the expansion of officers' roster (and, hence, board of directors) to
include the immediate past president, editor, newsletter editor, and the chairman of the
Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology.
Chief SHA concerns are its annual meetings and publications. The latter are the
scholarly Historical Archaeology and the Society for Historical Archaeology Newsletter,
which reports developments within the SHA and keeps members informed of news of the field.
In addition, since the early 1970s, the SHA has been increasingly interested in the
qualifications and ethical behavior of historical archeologists. It has also become
concerned with government activities to protect historical sites and to promote scientific
work at them. During the mid 1970s, the SHA joined other archeological organizations to
support the establishment of a professional register and has sent representatives to the
certification committee of the Society of Professional Archeologists.
In 1984, the SHA constitution was amended to include a statement on ethics. Through its
Public Information and Action Committee, the SHA has actively supported legislation to
benefit professional archeologists. Since 1978, it has sent a representative to the
Coordinating Council of National Archeological Societies.
The SHA has developed a special relationship with the Conference on Underwater
Archaeology. The two have come to hold meetings together regularly. The Advisory Council
on Underwater Archaeology, which exists to keep the conferences going, became a SHA
committee in 1975. After that, the SHA constitution was changed so that the chairman of
the council joined the SHA board. The council uses the SHA Newsletter and urges
conference members to join the SHA. Historical Archaeology includes articles on
underwater archeology.
In 1977, the SHA began to use the office of the executive director of the American
Anthropological Association for certain business purposes. This relationship was
discontinued during the mid 1980s.
The material consists mainly of officers' and board of directors' records and copies of
the SHA publications. Correspondents include Richard E. Ahlborn, David A. Armour, J.D.
Campbell, John L. Cotter, Vincent P. Foley, Lee H. Hanson, Karlis Karklins, J. Glenn
Little, Arnold R. Pilling, Michael Rodeffer, Bert Salwen, Roderick Sprague, Jervis D.
Swannack, and very many others.
DATES: 1966-1987
QUANTITY: ca. 7.3 linear meters (ca. 24 linear feet)
ARRANGEMENT: (1) Organizational correspondence, 1966-1967; (2) presidents'
correspondence, 1967-1976; (3) president-elects' correspondence, 1971, 1974-1975; (4)
board of directors' correspondence, 1968-1974; (5) committee records, 1968-1977; (6)
records relating to annual meetings, 1968-1977; (7) editors' correspondence, 1967-1974;
(8) records relating to historical archeology, 1968-1975; (9) copies of the Newsletter,
1968-1977; (10) secretary-treasurer's correspondence, 1969-1977; (11) membership
correspondence, 1967-1977; (12) returned mail, 1971-1977; (13) invoices, 1967-1975; (14)
miscellany, n.d.; (15) sound recording tapes and photographs, n.d.; (16)
secretary-treasurer's records, 1967-1978; (17) David A. Armour's files (editor, Historical
Archaeology), 1972-1973; (18) Newsletters, 1968-1990; (19) material
regarding book reviews for Historical Archeology; (20) secretary-treasurer's
records, 1968-1987; (21) E.B. Jelk's material concerning the organization of the SHA
FINDING AID: Incomplete draft register
SOCIETY FOR MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY (est. 1971), Records
The Society for Medical Anthropology (SMA) grew from the Group for Medical Anthropology
organized in 1968. It is an organization open to anthropological, medical and health care
professionals, and other interested persons. Its purpose is "(a) to promote the study
of the anthropological aspects of health, illness, health care and related topics; (b) to
encourage communication and utilization of results obtained from such studies; and (c) to
aid in the education of persons who are or will be involved in carrying out the above
activities."
The SMA is governed by an executive council that includes the officers and several
members. The officers include a president, president-elect, secretary-treasurer, and
editor, the latter being selected by the council and sitting with it as a non-voting
member (formerly the immediate past president was also on the council).
The society's main functions have been meetings and publications. It issued the Medical
Anthropology Newsletter until 1968 when the name was changed to the Medical
Anthropology Quarterly. The society awards the Ellen Basker Award for contributions
in the area of gender, health, and illness; the W.H.R. Rivers Prize for a student essay;
and the Steven Polgar Prize for a paper from a person not yet in graduate study.
During the 1970s, the American Anthropological Association managed SMA business. In
1984, SMA voted to become an organization within the American Anthropological Association.
In 1986, SMA and several groups with special interests in medical anthropology became
formally associated, the groups assuming the status of affiliates. Involved were the
Council on Nursing and Anthropology, Council on Reproductive Anthropology, Council on
Nutritional Anthropology, Association for Anthropology and Gerontology, Critical
Anthropology of Health Interest Group, Infectious Disease Study Group, Alcohol and Drug
Study Group, Disability Research Interest Group, and Anthropology and AIDS Research Group.
The records include correspondence, minutes, agenda, reports, bylaws, a procedures
manual, programs, financial papers, and editorial materials. Most pertain to the SMA but
there are also considerable materials relating to the affiliated Council for Nursing and
Anthropology. The papers also include unpublished papers and other materials of Ellen
Basker and correspondence of Hazel W. Weidman.
Correspondents include Rita L. Arlinger, Clifford Barnett, Pamela J. Brink, Paul Brown,
Lucy Cohen, Jeannine Coreil, Charles C. Hughes, Charles Leslie, Frances Cooke MacGregor,
Marc S. Micozzi, Benjamin D. Paul, Gretel H. Pelto, Janet M. Schrieber, Hazel W. Weidman,
and Helen Jean Wiese.
DATES: 1970-1993
QUANTITY: ca. 4.5 linear meters (ca. 14 linear feet)
ARRANGEMENT: Records of the general society, including (1)
general records, 1971-1985; (2) secretary-treasurer's records, 1986-1988; (3) Sara A.
Quandt's records as secretary-treasurer and member of the executive committee, 1988-1991;
(4) David Landy materials as president and executive committee member, 1979-1984 and
1991-1993; (5) SMA procedural manual, 1989-1990; (6) M.A.N. editors' files,
1963-1986; (7) Eileen Basker Memorial Prize Committee, 1988-1990; (8) material of Hazel H.
Wiedman, 1969-1989; records of affiliated interest groups,
including (9) Working Group on International Health and Infectious Disease, 1981-1989;
(10) Council on Nursing and Anthropology, 1970-1990; papers of individuals,
including (11) Eileen Basker papers
FINDING AID: Folder list
RESTRICTION: Editorial material is subject to a long-term restriction.
SOCIETY FOR VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Records
In 1966, the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research sponsored a conference
of anthropologists interested in motion picture film and filmmakers. Out of this grew a
subcommittee of the American Anthropological Association known as the Program in
Ethnographic Film (PIEF). Its purpose was to coordinate and promote the work of those
involved in visual anthropology through teaching, production, and training.
As time passed, it became apparent that followers of visual anthropology had much
broader interests. While film remained a highly important concern, PIEF tried to bring
together researchers who were studying human behavior through all visual means, including
film, still photography, drawing and paintings, sculpture, and body decoration. As a
result, in 1973 the society adopted the name Society for the Anthropology of Visual
Communication (SAVICOM). In 1984, with the reorganization of the American Anthropological
Association to accommodate the many subfields of anthropology, SAVICOM was merged into the
AAA under the name Society for Visual Anthropology (SVA).
SVA has conducted annual meetings coincidental with the AAA, and it has regularly
produced a review of anthropological film for AAA members. It has also sponsored
conferences and symposia. Publications have included the PIEF Newsletter begun in
1970 and continued until the fall of 1973. In 1974, the newsletter was replaced by the Newsletter
of the Society for the Anthropology of Visual Communication, and in 1980 the title
was shortened to SAVICOM Newsletter. It became the SVA Newsletter in
1985; and, in 1990, it became the Visual Anthropology Review: The Journal of the
Society for Visual Anthropology. The organization has issued special publications
such as bibliographies and technical and philosophical works on film.
DATES: 1967-1995
QUANTITY: ca. .31 linear meter (ca. 1 linear foot)
ARRANGEMENT: Material concerning organization and early history, 1967-1973; (2) SVA
publications, 1970-1995
FINDING AID:
RALPH S. SOLECKI PHOTOGRAPHS OF ANTHROPOLOGISTS
Included are Solecki's portraits of Robert Stigler, ca. 1960, and Ruth L. Bunzel, ca.
1980. There is also an undated portrait of William Duncan Strong.
DATES: Probably 1950s-1980s
QUANTITY: 3 prints
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 92-35
PHOTOGRAPHS MADE ON RALPH S. SOLECKI'S ARCHEOLOGICAL
SURVEY IN ALASKA
From May 8 to September 10, 1949, the Bureau of American Ethnology detailed Ralph S.
Solecki to accompany a United States Geological Survey party to the upper Kokpowruk and
Kokolik rivers. Resulting color slides show camps, party members, and views. They also
include a few images of Eskimos and Eskimo shelters, a deadfall, animal trap, and cache.
In addition, there are views of Point Barrow and Umiak. There are also negatives, but they
are uncaptioned. Most appear similar to the slides.
DATE: 1949
QUANTITY: ca. 642 items
ARRANGEMENT: Unarranged
FINDING AID: None
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 77
SOUTHALL, AIDAN WILLIAM (1920- ), AND MARSHALL BARRON
CLINARD, Material Relating to Nutrition and Crime in Kampala, Uganda
Aidan Southall was educated at Cambridge University (B.A., 1942; M.A., 1957) and the
University of London (Ph.D., 1957). He was a long-time faculty member at Makerere
University in Kampala and chairman of the East African Institute of Social Research. Later
he taught at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is an African specialist and has a
broad interest in the people of Uganda that includes social and economic change.
Marshall Clinard was educated at Stanford University (B.A., 1932; M.A., 1934) and the
University of Chicago (Ph.D., 1941). He taught at several universities including Iowa,
Vanderbilt, and Wisconsin at Madison. His field was sociology with a special interest in
crime.
Professor Southall describes the material as "the data base of surveys, carried
out by myself in the 1950s and by Professor Clinard in the 1970s, in the city of Kampala,
Uganda. My survey concentrated on a dense low income area and was one of the earliest and
one of the very few such studies carried out in Africa. Besides the low income area there
were smaller samples, of urban chiefs, Asian and European households, and domestic
servants.
"Professor Clinard used my data base as the foundation for a study of urban crime,
which was later published in his book Crime in Developing Countries [: A
Comparative Prospective, New York, 1973]."
DATES: 1950s-1970s
QUANTITY: ca. 5 linear meters (ca. 16.5 linear feet)
ARRANGEMENT: The following are tentative series titles: Southall material,
including (1) Kampala survey; (2) sample survey; (3) miscellaneous files (includes survey
forms and other material on Jinja, Uganda, and Tanga, in Tanganyika; Clinard
material, including (4) survey forms for general population; (5) survey of
arrested persons; (6) coded lists of arrests (counting sheets); (7) coded sheets for entry
on punch cards; (8) tapes
FINDING AID: None |