Anthropology and a lifetime of observation :, 2002

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Label

Anthropology and a lifetime of observation :, 2002

Statement of responsibility

Elizabeth Colson ; with an introduction by Laura Nader. Interviews conducted by Suzanne Riess in 2000-2001. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Inclusive dates

2002

Creator

• Colson, Elizabeth, 1917-

Contributor

• Riess, Suzanne B
• Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office

Interviewee

• Colson, Elizabeth, 1917-

Interviewer

• Riess, Suzanne B

Subject

• Tonga (Zambesi people) -- Relocation
• University of California, Berkeley, Dept. of Anthropology -- Faculty
• Women anthropologists -- Interviews
• Oral histories
• University of California, Berkeley -- History
• Forced migration -- Research
• Ethnology -- Research
• Africanists -- United States

Genre

• Interviews
• Oral histories

Language

eng

Summary

Family and community, Minnesota; education, University of Minnesota, Radcliffe; influence of Ruth and Wilson Wallis, others, and work with life histories, Pomo Indians, Makah Indians, Poston War Relocation Camp; to Northern Rhodesia, 1946, Max Gluckman, Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, rain shrine work; Oxford and Manchester, anthropological perspective, British social anthropology; Gwembe Tonga and forced resettlement study beginning 1956: Thayer Scudder, life in the field, research methodology, notes, diaries, censuses, continuing migration and resettlement work; teaching at Boston University, Goucher College, Brandeis University; UC Berkeley's Department of Anthropology, professor since 1964: faculty, departmental groups, 1970 report on the status of women on campus, the Budget Committee, Editorial Committee; returns to Zambia, routines in Africa, in Berkeley, colleagues, honors, recent publications. Appendices include Interview for the Society of Woman Geographers, 1993; sample field notes, 1957, 1998; "The Father as Witch," 2000; histories of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, 1977; "Overview" of anthropology, 1989

Member of

• University history series

Additional physical form

Audio tape recording of the interviews also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3368 C:1-17.

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

CU-BANC

Form designation

oral history transcript

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Location of originals duplicates

Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.

Nature of contents

dictionaries