Julian H. Steward (1902-72) was a professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois (1952-72) and one of the most respected and influential anthropologists of his generation. His theory that cultural change is a multilinear evolutionary process similar to biological evolution led to the influential idea that human culture develops along several different paths rather than from a single central stem. Based on extensive field research, he contended that what has happened in one culture may be found in others with its own distinct pattern. This won him world acclaim and helped set the research agenda and theoretical framework for a generation of anthropologists.
Papers of Julian H. Steward (1902-72), professor of anthropology (1952-72), including correspondence, reports, manuscripts, reviews, publications, government documents, minutes, newsletters, directories, conference programs, research proposals and applications, student records and evaluations, lecture notes, diaries, field notes, drawings, maps, charts and photographs concerning personal, business and professional activities of faculty, friends and family; foundations and academic organizations supporting anthropological fieldwork in North and South America, Africa, Europe and Asia; petroglyphs; cultural ecology and evolution; human ecology; cultural anthropology theory; multilinear evolution; ethnography; indigenous religions; cross cultural regularities; North and South American indigenous cultures; Ute, Paiute Carrier and Shoshone peoples; Southwestern United States archaeology and ethnology; Utah, Great Basin; Puerto Rico; travels and teaching in Japan as Director of the Kyoto American Studies Seminar (1956-57); world trip (1957-58); Indian claims commission hearings (ca. 1950-55) and the Bureau of Indian Affairs (1936-37); American Association for the Advancement of Science; Telluride Association; teaching and supervision of graduate and field research in University of Illinois Sociology and Anthropology Departments (1952-69) and faculty positions at the Universities of Michigan (1928-30), Utah (1930-33), California at Berkeley (1933-34) and Columbia (1946-52) and as Associate Anthropologist in the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution (1935-46). Correspondents include Ralph L. Beals, Robert F. Heizer, Alfred Kroeber, Margaret Mead, George P. Murdock, Leslie White, Gordon K. Willey, Eric Wolf and Emma Schroeder (genealogy and sailing journals).
Arranged by correspondent (chronological and alphabetical thereunder), subject, project, publications, depart
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Correspondence re: reviews and publications
Correspondence re: Reece Committee investigation of the AAA, the AAA
Viking Fund Award Committee, Indian Claims Commission hearings, and Steward's refusal of
the editorship of
Newsletters, correspondence, programs, budgets, and reports
Newsletters and conference program for 5th Annual Meeting, November 28-30, 1957.
Steward's referee comments on "Symposium on Studies in Evolution: Ideology and Socio-economic Structure" manuscript.
Correspondence, bulletins, reports, and conference programs.
Correspondence re: Anastasio's PhD thesis on the "areal matrix."
Invitations to lecture, declined.
Field worker for the Puerto Rico Project, Armstrong declined an offer to do field work in East Africa for the Cross-Cultural Regularities Project.
Chief of the Indian Claims Section of the U. S. Department of Justice.
Includes correspondence re:
Professor of Anthropology, UCLA. Steward offered him a position with the Kyoto American Studies Seminar.
Including Beardsley's Guggenheim grant proposal, "A Study of Spanish Small-Farm Communities near Valencia for Comparison with Japanese Small-Farm Communities"
Including "The Oriental Institute: Thirty Years and the Present," by Thorkild Jacobsen and John A. Wilson.
Butler's UI thesis proposal: "A Proposal for a Research Project for the PhD Dissertation in Sociology."
"An informal group which has met occasionally to discuss the new dimensions into which mankind is growing." Gerhard Hirschfeld, Director.
Memorandum from R. W. Janes and C. S. Alexander
Steward's referee comments on Cressman's NSF grant application "A Study in Oregon Coast Prehistory: An Archaeological Study in Cultural and Population Dynamics."
Chief, Social Science Section, Pan American Union, Organization of American States.
Progress report and circular.
Including Das's Ford Foundation Fellowship research proposal "Effects of Technological and Social Change upon Fundamental Social Attitudes in Urban India."
Columbia University graduate student under Steward and field worker in Nigeria for the Cross-Cultural Regularities Project.
Memorandum and circular describing the University of Chicago Philippine Studies Program
Cross-Cultural Regularities Project field worker in Mexico.
Re: Rockefeller Foundation grant for the Kyoto American Studies Seminar.
Fieldworker for the Cross-Cultural Regularities Project in Peru. Correspondence, including Faron's photographs of Temuco, Chile (ca. 1956).
Correspondence, including Ferriera's "A Note on Implicit Culture: Values Implicit in Thonga Beliefs and Attitudes Concerning Disease and Modern Medicine."
Correspondence, including Steward's review article "Typology for What?: Comments on James's `The Type Concept Revisited'"
Museum of Anthropology, University of California-Berkeley
Heizer's NSF grant proposal "Culture History of the Western Great Basin."
Including correspondence re: Cross-Cultural Regularities Project.
Including correspondence re: Janes' research on community typologies in southern Illinois and "A Proposal for a Metropolitan and Community Studies Program in the University on Illinois," 1959.
Including correspondence with Richard K. Beardsley, Gordon Bowles, and others re: Kyoto American Studies Seminar, correspondence re: publication of the Puerto Rico Project research, letters from V. G. Childe and Eric Wolf, and notes on Cross-Cultural Regularities Project.
Correspondence, including Johnson's quarterly reports to the Social Science Research Council on his field work in Japan.
Correspondence re: Jones' article on the
Including correspondence with Roman Jakobson re: Shoshoni linguistic study.
Including Kimble's "Prospectus for a Survey of Africa."
Including correspondence with Alfred Kroeber, Isabel Kelly, and other re: Indian Claims Commission hearings for the Chemehuevi and other Southern Paiute bands.
Memoranda, minutes, syllabi, and lectures
Correspondence, including Leacock and Vera Rubin's "Manual for Field Workers and Students, Yorkville Community Mental Health Research Project."
Correspondence, including final report to the Social Science Research Council on Lehman's field work among Chin peoples of Burma. Lehman did field work in Burma for the Cross-Cultural Regularities Project.
Including correspondence re: Puerto Rico Project and Manner's field work in Kenya for the Cross-Cultural Regularities Project.
Correspondence re: Steward's review of Mead's
Including a typescript of "Energy and Social Evolution."
Including correspondence re: the Rubin Foundation and the Puerto Rico Project.
Steward's referee comments on Moore's article "Cumulation and Cultural Processes."
Correspondence re:
Including correspondence re: AAA Committee on Indian Claims.
Including correspondence re: Murphy's field work among Mundurucú in Brazil, Shoshoni Indian Claims Commission hearings, and the Fort Hall and Wind River Reservations, typescripts of Murphy's papers and articles about the Mundurucú, and a proposal to conduct field work among the Tuareg of French West Africa.
Including correspondence with Eugenio Fernández Mendez, Universidad de Puerto Rico re: Puerto Rico Project.
Correspondence re: Section of Anthropology and appointments to the Academy. Programs, minutes, memoranda, and circulars.
Editorial correspondence including prepublication notices, first edition book jackets, and photographic negatives of book illustrations.
International Cooperation Administration, Community Development Division
Including correspondence re: Puerto Rico Project
Including correspondence with Maurice T. Price, Psychological Warfare Division of the United States Air Force.
Correspondence re: a symposium on Indian Claims Commission hearings.
Correspondence and typescript re: values (broadly defined) in social science research.
Correspondence re: Kyoto American Studies Seminar and
Correspondence re: Rouslin's dissertation on the acculturation of Tarascan-speaking peoples in Mexico during the 16th century
Correspondence re: Harry Tschopik's field work in the Central Andes for the Institute of Social Anthropology.
Including correspondence re: Puerto Rico Project, Rubin Foundation, and Research Institute for the Study of Man.
Including correspondence re: Scheele's field work for the Puerto Rico Project.
Correspondence, including Steward's comments on a draft of Schlenker's thesis, "Tribe into Caste: A Social and Cultural Analysis."
Correspondence, including Steward's comments on Silverstein's thesis on Mormonism.
Correspondence re: forming an American Anthropological Association committee to publish information collected for the Indian Claims Commission hearings.
Research Proposal, Center for Advanced Study, Stanford University.
Correspondence re:
Correspondence, newsclippings, and press releases re: Stoddard's resignation as President of the University of Illinois. Including letter from Robert Dubin, Professor of Sociology, resigning in protest of Stoddard's removal from office.
Including Stout's typescript "A Report on Primate Social Organization and the Opportunity for Human Band Organization."
Including Sutcliffe's "A Preliminary Outline for a Regional Research Program in the State of Nayarit, Mexico."
Cross-Cultural Regularities Project field worker in Malay and Japan.
Correspondence re: Shoshoni linguistics and the State Department's refusal to grant a passport to Swadesh.
Including correspondence re: Indian Claims Commission hearings and Japan.
Including correspondence re: Cross-Cultural Regularities Project and Shoshoni religion.
Including correspondence with Daniel J. Schene re: anthropologists and the Indian Claims Commission hearings and mimeograph of "Anthropologists and Indian Claims Research" by J. A. Jones.
Including correspondence re: Cross-Cultural Regularities Project.
Request for comments re: enclosed typescript "Gaps in Existing Knowledge of the Relationship between Population Trends and Economic and Social Conditions."
Including typescript of Vidyarthi's "Cultural Types in Tribal Bihar."
Including typescript of Voegelin's "On Developing New Typologies, and Revising Old Ones."
Including correspondence re: Indian Claims Commission hearings.
Correspondence re: Indian Claims Commission hearings.
Including correspondence and typescripts re: Wolf's field work in Mexico.
Including reports on field work in Japan for the Cross-Cultural Regularities Project.
Correspondence re: Indian Claims Commission hearings.
Including correspondence re: Kyoto American Studies Seminar and a list
of Seminar Lecturers, 1951-1974, correspondence with the Aldine Publishing Company, with
Kathleen Aberle (Professor of Anthropology, Simon Fraser University) re: her dismissal and
subsequent academic freedom lawsuit, with W.H. Alkire (PhD candidate in anthropology at
University of Illinois, and Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Malaya and
Department), and with Inez Adams (former M.A. student, University of Illinois). Also includes
Steward's referee comments for
Including correspondence with
Including letter to John Chance re: Steward's contribution to anthropology, Steward's referee comments on Colin Renfrew's "Trade and Culture Process in European Prehistory," K.C. Chang's "Major Aspects of the Interrelationship of Archaeology and Ethnology," Muriel Kamisky Crespi's thesis, correspondence with Katherine G. Connable of the Eastern California Museum re: Steward's tape recordings of Paiute Indian songs, with Robert Carneiro re: Carneiro's paper "The Rating of Cultures and Cultural Growth."
Including correspondence with Warren L. d'Azevedo re: Great Basin sociopolitical organization, David Damas' typescript "Introduction: The Study of Cultural Ecology and the Ecology Conference," correspondence and a typescript concerning Neville Dyson-Hudson's research on ecological adaptation among Karimojong, Turkana, and Bisharin peoples of northeast Uganda.
Including correspondence from Betty J. Meggers and Clifford Evans of the Smithsonian Institution.
Including correspondence with Louis Faron re: revision of
Including correspondence with Douglas Hudson re: Carrier peoples and correspondence between Jane Steward and Hudson re: borrowing Steward's Carrier field notes and photographs, correspondence with Ronald O. Haak regarding his field work in Japan and letters of reference from Steward, correspondence with Marvin Harris re: the history of anthropological theory and Steward's career.
Including correspondence with Richard B. Lee re: his field work among
the Bushmen, with Oscar Lewis re: reviews of
Including a draft of Steward's biographical memoir of Robert H. Lowie for the National Academy of Sciences, photograph of Lowie (n.d.), typescript of a biographical memoir of Oscar Lewis by Douglas Butterworth, correspondence with Alan Jacobs and typescripts of his papers and grant proposals on the Masai of East Africa, correspondence with Sven Liljeblad re: Great Basin linguistics, social organization, and Indian Claims Commission hearings (Bannock, Northern Paiute, and Shoshoni), and correspondence with Theodora Kroeber.
Correspondence, publications, and photograph of Kroeber with Robert H. Lowie (ca. 1956).
Including typescript of Steward's "The North American Indian" written for
Including correspondence with Robert A. Manners, between Manners and
Jane Steward re: Steward's obituary and bibliography (typescript included), typescript "Man
Makes Himself?" by Nelson Aldrich Drekopf, correspondence with Ken Moore re: his field work
on Sephardic Jews in Mallorca, with Robert Murphy, with Shuichi Nagata including reviews of
his book
Including Arthur R. Piper's typescript "Comments on
Including Steward's typescripts "The Scientist's Moral Responsibility" and
"Comments on Despres's 'Anthropological Theory,'" letters of recommendation by Steward for
Elman Service and Demitri Shimkin, correspondence with Sol Tax, circulars from the Jeremiah
Stamler. M.D. Legal Aid Fund (challenging the constitutionality of the House Committee on
Un-American Activities), correspondence with Gerald Suttles re: kinship and social organization,
with editors of the
Including correspondence with Page Stephens, with Elman Service, with William W. Speth re: intellectual influences on Steward's concept of cultural ecology, with Raymond Scheele, from W. Shockley to members of the National Academy of Sciences re: the study of race and intelligence, correspondence re: reorganization of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Sven Liljeblad's comments on Steward's "The Foundations of Basin-Plateau Shoshonean Society," and a copy of Demitri Shimkin's April 4, 1968 letter of resignation from the University of Illinois Anthropology Dept.
Including correspondence with Toshinao Yoneyama, typescripts by Chaim I. Waxaman on the "culture of poverty," correspondence with William S. Willis re: his appointment to the Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology at Southern Methodist University, with Evon Z. Vogt re: water divining, letter from Steward to Senator Fulbright re: Vietnam, letters of recommendation for Phillip Young and Joseph Whitecotton.
Typescript (74 pages, with illustrations) dealing with anthropological
perspectives on the Indian Claims Commission hearings. Specific case histories discussed are
Typescript by John Allen Jones, including letter to Steward.
Typescript (71 pages) accompanied by "Plaintiff's Brief,
Including typescripts "The Kawaiisu" (pages 72-77), "Ecological Type VI,
Desert Habitat--Type Example: The California Shoshoni" (62 pages),
United Airlines Timetable from Chicago (1961), "Yampa Locations"
(hand-drawn of this Ute group's territory in Colorado and Utah, n.d.), pages from the
Drafts of chapters from "The Northern Paiute Indians," a report for Indian Claims Commission hearings by Steward and Ermine W. Voegelin.
Including notes on 19th century chiefs and territories.
Typescript and notes (various paginations).
Typescript (pages 65-70).
Typescript (pages 23-31).
Typescript on groups residing on the Malheur Reservation (64 pages).
Typescript (various paginations).
Typescript (pages 78-82).
Manuscript (pages 1-3) and typescript (pages 28-42).
Manuscript (pages 1-24 and 1a-3b).
Typescript (pages 1-11)
Typescript (90 pages).
Typescripts (various paginations).
Typescripts (various paginations).
Typescripts (pages 114-119 and 1-5)
Typescripts (various paginations).
Draft of "Aboriginal and Historic Groups of the Ute Indians of Utah--An Analysis," by Steward (62 pages, including map of Southern Paiute territory).
Including typescript "Area of the Snake, Boise, and Weiser Rivers" (pages 91-113) and correspondence with Sven Liljeblad and Robert Murphy re: Shoshoni Indian Claims Commission hearings and the Fort Hall Reservation.
A copy of a letter from Beatrice B. Whiting to Erminie W. Voegelin and typed notes on interviews with Northern Paiute informants.
Letter from Steward to J. Edward Williams, Acting Attorney General, and testimony by Northern Paiute witnesses in the Indian Claims Commission hearings.
Typescript (50 pages).
Correspondence, notes, testimony, and petitions re:
Documents re: Steward's testimony as an expert witness in
Briefs and petitions re:
Mimeograph of "Excerpts from the Writings of A. L. Kroeber on Land
Use and Political Organization of California Indians, with Comments by Harold E. Driver,"
prepared by Harold E. Driver and memoranda to Department of Justice research consultants for
the
Correspondence and memoranda re: the Indian Claims Commission
hearings
Correspondence with the Department of Justice and Erminie W. Voegelin
re: the Indian Claims Commission hearings
Correspondence with Leland Yost, Department of Justice, re: the Indian
Claims Commission hearings
Letters to Leland Yost and Isabel Kelly re: request for use of Kelly's unpublished Southern Paiute data.
Correspondence with Ralph Beals, UCLA Department of Anthropology
and Ralph A. Barney, U. S. Department of Justice, memorandum, notes, reports, expense
vouchers, and court dockets relating to Steward's testimony as an expert witness in the
Mimeograph of a report prepared under the direction of Ralph L. Beals,
UCLA for the Indian Claims Commission hearings on the
Typescript and petition from
Including correspondence with Jay Jones and the Justice Department,
courtroom transcripts, and map of the area claimed in the
Editorial correspondence, memoranda, and typescripts.
Correspondence re:
Correspondence and report from A. V. Kidder on archaeological activities of the Carnegie Institution's Maya Program.
Editorial correspondence re: a manuscript on area studies research that
submitted to
Correspondence, memorandum, programs, and reports.
Correspondence with Cora DuBois re: the area studies approach
Correspondence with Owen Lattimore re: the area studies approach
Correspondence, reports, and statement of expenditures submitted to the Rockefeller Foundation, The University of Puerto Rico, and the Columbia University Council for Research in the Social Sciences re: the "Project to Study the Social Anthropology of Puerto Rico."
Field reports
Includes correspondence with Donald Pierson, George M. Foster, Webster McBryde, John E. Graf, Alexander Wetmore, Kalervo Oberg, John Rowe, Gordon R. Willey, Ethelwyn Carter, Robert West, John Gillin, and Isabel Kelly regarding ISA projects in Peru, Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia. (Steward founded the Institute of Social Anthropology within the Smithsonian Institution in 1943 and was Director of the Institute from 1943 to September 1946.)
Editorial correspondence and typescripts of papers presented at the Conference on Band Organization, National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, 1965
Humorous poems, newsclippings, and cartoons about anthropologists.
Including photographs of Alfred Kroeber, photograph of Theodora
Kroeber, typescript of Steward's review of
Index of Hopi, Ute, and Navajo "lantern slides" and "museum negatives" (repository not identified).
Alexander Ervin's notes on the human ecology of hunter-gatherers, including field notes on contemporary Inuits of the Macenzie Delta and research notes on African and Acheulian prehistory.
Correspondence, research proposals, grant applications, and course syllabi relating to Shimkin's research projects.
Typescripts of "Cultural Disequilibrium" (1942), "The Institute of Social Anthropology" (n.d.), "Comments on the Statement on Human Rights" (1948), "The Ultimate Effectiveness of Social Science" (1947), "South American Indian Religions" (ca. 1948), "Anthropology and Renewable Resources" (1948), "Cultural Ecology" (1948), "Some Limitations of Community Studies" (1948), "Some Components of Contemporary Sociocultural Systems" (1951), and "Puerto Rico Community and Area Research" (1949), with editorial correspondence.
Editorial correspondence re: Steward's paper for the AAA Applied Anthropology Symposium on Planned Change.
Correspondence with Richard Beardsley, Robert Armstrong, Robert
Murphy, Eric Wolf, Ray Scheele, Erminie W. Voegelin (re: the Indian Claims Commission
hearings and
Notes and correspondence re: Steward's booklet "Culture and
Environment" in the
Editorial correspondence, publication contract, and typescripts for
Typescript of "Ecology, Cultural and Non-Cultural" by Andrew P. Vayda and Roy A. Rappaport, Steward's review comments, and the author's responses. Typescript of "Basin Ethnography and Ecological Theory" by Robert Murphy and Steward's informal comments.
Correspondence and typescript of "Problems of Cultural Evolution."
Editorial correspondence and bibliography, including typescript of Richard B. Woodbury's NSF Research Proposal "Comparative Analysis of Pre-Industrial Systems of Water Management in Arid Regions."
These files pertain to Steward's 1956 trip to Japan as Director of the Kyoto American Studies Seminar, sponsored by the University of Michigan. Steward taught anthropology and directed a field research project on Japanese rural communities.
Includes Steward's "Report of the Director, Kyoto American Studies Center," photographs of people and buildings in Kyoto, field reports from Japanese graduate students Toshinao Yoneyama, Mikio Matsumoto, Michiharu Matsumoto, Setsuro Sumi, Hisao Naka, and Professor Jiro Suzuki.
Typescripts of Steward's lectures and presentations on community studies research, research outline for the study of Japanese rural communities, and field reports from Japanese graduate students Toshinao Yoneyama, Mikio Matsumoto, Michiharu Matsumoto, Setsuro Sumi, Hisao Naka, and Professor Jiro Suzuki.
Including receipts, ledgers, notebook of "Field Expenses: Kyoto, Japan, February 17, 1956 to [July 7, 1956]," and Toshinao Yoneyama's reports of expenditures for field work in Kaminosho, Japan.
Typescript of Hidetoshi Kato's English translation of "Some Observations on Communication and Japanese Nationalism in 1890's" by Mr. Nagashima and "A Study in the Process of Integration of Nikaido-Mura: With Emphasis on Kaminosho."
Publisher correspondence, drafts, and notes.
45 photographs, some by Louis C. Faron, Robert and Yolanda Murphy, and Sol Miller.
Reproductions of figures and drawings from published sources.
Correspondence with Ralph L. Beals, Robert J. Smith, Charles Osgood re: government involvement and interference in international research, a questionnaire from the AAA Committee on Research Problems and Ethics (March 1966), and newsclippings.
The UI Association of Anthropology Graduate Student's
Including editorial correspondence, memorandum, and typescripts of papers.
Correspondence re: funds drives and a temporary teaching appointment,
Steward's response to a survey appraising Deep Spring's influence and effectiveness, and
Typescript of "Conceptual Categories for Urban Studies," "Urbanization
and Prestige Ranking among Migrants to Athens" by Ernestine Friedl, and correspondence with
Includes records of Steward's travels in Africa, India, Singapore, and Japan
Including procedures for research assistants and notes on bibliographic sources by research assistants, including Ben Zimmerman, Frederic K. Lehman and Eric Wolf.
Including letter from Demitri Shimkin re: the classification of cultures.
Letter from Milton Bradley Company re: popular games and notes.
Including expense reports, correspondence with Fukutaro Nagashima re:
historical research on the
Expense reports for the Cross-Cultural Regularities Project, Hidetoshi Kato's field work in Nikaido, correspondence with Japanese anthropologists and graduate students.
Correspondence re:
Correspondence re: Steward's work as Director of the Kyoto American Studies Seminar.
Including maps with handwritten notes indicating the distribution of cultural traits and artifacts (e.g. atlatls, coil basketry, and burial methods), archaeological areas, and culture areas.
Including 65 photographs of Native American petroglyphs in Utah, California, and elsewhere taken by Steward, Dave Rust, O. J. Grimes, Barnum Brown, Charles Kelly, Hector Lee, and Frank Beckwith. Pencil and ink drawings by Steward. Correspondence re: "Petroglyphs of California and Adjoining States" and "Ancient
E. R. Smith's notes and sketches of pictographs found at Toole, Utah (May 1931).
Notes on estimated expenses, theoretical framework, and research methodologies for what became the Cross-Cultural Regularities Project.
Notes and typescripts on culture change, anthropological theory and methods, the origin of the state, and primate sociology.
Typescript with Steward's handwritten corrections and revisions.
Correspondence re: Steward's grant proposal "A Project for Research on
Cross-Cultural Regularities of Change Among Native Populations." Newsclippings on this and
other projects funded by the Ford Foundation. Correspondence and working paper from the Ad
Hoc Group on the
Administrative correspondence and a photocopy of the project proposal.
"Some Notes on Cross-Cultural Types in East Africa" by Edward H. Winter, "Sub-Culture Types in Northwestern Mexico" (no author), and "Some Potential Hypotheses of Culture Change for Use in Studies of Japanese Village Life" by Steward.
Expense reports, budgets, and administrative correspondence.
Reports on field work from Stanley Diamond in Nigeria, Edward Winter and Thomas Beidelman in Tanganyika, Robert Manners in Kenya, Frederic K. Lehman in Burma, Richard Downs in Malaysia, Toshinao Yoneyama in Japan, Charles Erasmus in Mexico, and Sol Miller and Louis Faron in Peru. Includes Steward's notes and reports on his 1957-58 visits to the field in Tanganyika, Kenya, Malay, and Japan.
Excerpts from the field worker's interim reports and Steward's commentary.
Correspondence and expense vouchers re: the Cross-Cultural Regularities Project and Steward's 1957-58 visits to the field in Tanganyika, Kenya, Malay, and Japan.
Correspondence regarding field work and subsequent publications with Raymond Scheele, Louis Faron, Charles Erasmus, Thomas Beidelman, Sol Miller, Robert Manners, Stanley Diamond, Frederic K. Lehman, Edward Winter, Richard Downs, and budget statements.
Correspondence, expense vouchers, and appointment papers.
Notes recorded at Symposium (transcription of round table sessions), June 1955
Papers and correspondence.
Bibliographies, papers, and research notes on several African, Asian, Australian, South American and North American cultures.
Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, and reports re: a Ford Foundation Grant to the University of Illinois "for the further development of university resources for research in individual behavior and human relations."
Correspondence, memoranda, and research proposals for field work in Iraq for the Cross-Cultural Regularities Project by Robert F. Murphy.
Re: field work in India and Southeast Asia.
Re: field work in Burma for the Cross-Cultural Regularities Project and
draft of Lehman's PhD dissertation (
Typescript entitled "Excerpts from
Including referee comments on Steward's article "Cultural Causality and
Law" (
Correspondence and typescript of Vidyarthi's monograph on the Maler, a hill tribe of India. Includes typescript of Steward's "Foreword" for the volume.
Handwritten manuscript titled "Memorandum on Cultural and Social Changes under the Impact of Western-Type Societies" and typescript "Contemporary Acculturation of Native Populations: Notes on Methodology" by Steward and Demitri B. Shimkin.
Including the typescripts "Social Archaeology" and "Evolutionary Principals and Social Types" by Steward and "Culture, Society, and Evolution" by Steward and Demitri Shimkin. Steward and Shimkin were the keynote speakers for Part 1 of the Conference B, "Dynamics and Direction of Social Evolution."
Correspondence and comments from conference participants (Margaret Mead, Morton Fried, Marshall Sahlins, and others) re: conference arrangements, cultural evolution, and a debate whether Conference A, "Genetics and the Direction of Human Evolution" included racist and eugenic perspectives.
Typescripts of papers presented at the American Anthropology Association Meeting, December 1957.
Syllabi and bibliographies for courses taught by Steward, William Duncan Strong, Elman R. Service, J. H. Greenberg, Morton H. Fried, Dr. Weltfish, Charles Wagley, Alfred Kroeber, Conrad M. Arensberg, and Dr. Woodbury.
Editorial correspondence and draft of Steward's article on community studies.
Typescript and hand-drawn figures.
Notes and typescripts summarizing the Cross-Cultural Regularities Project and introducing the concept of multilinear evolution.
Correspondence and papers, including 21 photographs of Anaguta people in the Gwong District of Northern Nigeria where Diamond did field work for the Cross-Cultural Regularities Project.
Seminar papers and comments.
Correspondence re: Steward's revision of "Ethnology" section of the Encyclopedia's article on South America..
Correspondence with Robert A. Manners.
Correspondence, memoranda, and editorial comments re: Steward's article on cultural ecology and his tenure on the Advisory Board for the Encyclopedia.
Correspondence re: the "Symposium on Rural Subcultures in Latin America and Their Influence on Technical Development", organized by Steward, Eric Wolf, Theo R. Crevenna, and Angel Palerm.
Letters written to Steward espousing unconventional theories.
Correspondence re:
NSF grant proposals reviewed by Steward.
Correspondence re: an invitation for Steward to present a paper to the
American Association for the Advancement of Science "Symposium on World Technical
Change," Steward's article for
Transcripts of the proceedings of the "Seminar on Acculturation."
Papers and comments from the Anthropology Seminar (comprised of anthropologists from Berkeley and Stanford), including responses to a memorandum by psychologist F. D. Sheffield on the relationship between social and psychological explanations.
Notebook, including sketches of baskets and other handicrafts and phonetic transcription and translation of basic Shoshoni words.
Notes and "Outline for Syllabus."
Sixty-five photographs of Hopi, Navajo, and Papago, Pima people, dwellings and cultural artifacts, notes on sources, hand-drawn graphs of census data for various pueblos from 1850-1940, and typescripts of reports and articles. All photographs have catalog numbers.
Correspondence with Alfred L. Kroeber, Robert H. Lowie, Max Radin, and others re: Steward's 1947 teaching appointment at the University of California at Berkeley.
Manuscript and typescript of "Some Western Shoshoni Myths." The myths were "procured from several Shoshoni of Nevada and eastern California and from one Northern Paiute during six months ethnographic field work in 1935."
Progress reports for Cross-Cultural Regularities Project and typescript "Types of Latin American Peasantry: A Preliminary Discussion."
Lecture notes, course outlines, grade books, and syllabi.
Typescript, including drawings and 30 photographs taken by Steward and his field workers.
Includes a notebook chronicling Steward's activities as Associate Anthropologist for the Bureau of American Ethnology and Consultant Anthropologist to the Office of Indian Affairs and expense reports for a BAE field trip among Shoshoni, Ute, Gosiute, and Southern Paiute of Utah, Nevada, and Idaho.
Correspondence, memoranda, and expense reports re: a Bureau of American Ethnology/Bureau of Indian Affairs project to study the impact of constitutional reorganization of Native American groups. Includes typescript "Notes on the Place of Anthropology in the Administration of Indian Affairs" [by Lucy Cohen?].
Correspondence, governmental and private studies, reports, and papers, including Steward's 1936 "Report on Shoshonean Tribes: Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Eastern California."
Correspondence, notes, papers, and typescripts "Observations on the Acculturated Nevada Shoshoni in Owens Valley Paiute" by Steward and Some Psychological Objectives and Techniques in Ethnography" by Cora DuBois.
Correspondence and prospectus of a course on applied anthropology given by Scudder Mekeel, Bureau of Indian Affairs Field Representative, and Steward.
Correspondence, research notes, maps, typescripts, and Robert H. Lowie's and Alfred L. Kroeber's critiques of drafts of Steward's PhD thesis.
Typescript, drawings, and notes.
Correspondence, notes, and drafts of the Columbia University Department of Anthropology's proposal to hold a series of symposia on comparative national studies.
Photographs of Glen Canyon archaeological sites and petroglyphs from Steward's 1932 field trip. Drawings, field notes, site maps, and manuscripts by Steward: "The Archaeology of Glen Canyon of the Colorado River" (ca. 1932) "Report to Anthropology Laboratory, Santa Fe, Depart of the Interior, Smithsonian Institution on the University of Utah's First Archaeological Expedition, July 1932" and "An Archaeological Reconnaissance of Glen Canyon on the Colorado River" (1932).
Correspondence, membership list, and questionnaire.
Correspondence re: the publication of
Notes, newsclippings, outlines, and handwritten definitions of the soul collected from over 50 people (possibly university students).
A circular by Steward (as Director, Museum of Anthropology, University
of Utah) entitled "Utah's Archaeological Needs" and typescripts, including "Reproducing
Petroglyphs, "Painted Indian Rocks in California," "Abstract of
Photographs, drawings, correspondence, field notes, maps, reprints, and newsclippings re: North American petroglyphs. Photographs, maps, and notes on Great Basin artifacts and archaeological sites in the Great Salt Lake Region.
Typescript of "Hillers Photographs of Paiutes and Utes Taken on the
Powell Expedition of 1873" and prints of 83 photographs of Southern Paiute and Ute people
taken by John K. Hillers. (All photographs have Smithsonian Insitution catalog numbers and
captions.) Includes a newsclipping from
Course notes, syllabus, and Theodore D. McCown's blue book for Anthropology 124, Primitive Religion.
"A Project for Research on Cross-Cultural Regularities of Change Among Native Populations" and "A Project to Study the Cross-Cultural Significance of Types of Mexican Ejidos."
Typescripts of "Los Morros: A Rural Indian Community" by D. Kyte (ca.1948), "The Navajo People and Their Resources" by M. E. Musgrave (1936), "Good Range and Livestock Management Bring Success to Isleta Indian Community Cattle Program" by Dewey Dismuke (1939), and"Nah-Tah-Ni's Dam" (no author or date).
Outline, notes and typescripts re: Steward's proposed book on North and South American culture areas. Typescripts include "Uses and Misuses of Ceramics" and "Tupinamba."
Correspondence, outline, unsigned publication agreement with Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., and three photographs of Paiute men from Owens Valley, California, including portrait of Jack Stewart.
Notes and typescripts, including "Applied Anthropology," "Cultural Variability," "Whither Anthropology: Radcliffe- Brown and the Functionalists," and "A Method of Anthropological Investigation."
Syllabi, lecture notes, exams, and grades from courses taught by Steward at the University of California-Berkeley, University of Michigan, and University of Utah.
Syllabi and lecture notes from courses taught by Steward at the University of California-Berkeley, University of Michigan, and University of Utah.
Syllabi, lecture notes, exams, and grades from courses taught by Steward and Alfred Kroeber at the University of California-Berkeley.
Syllabi and lectures notes from classes taught by Steward, syllabi and course notes Steward took in Robert Lowie's 1922 "Primitive Religion" course at the University of California at Berkeley.
Syllabi, lecture notes and exams from a course taught by Steward at the University of California-Berkeley.
Copies of 2 memoranda from John Collier, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, criticizing Steward's "Report on the Shoshonean Tribes," typescript "Anthropological Inaction, Or Another Redskin Bit the Dust" in which Steward parodies Collier and major anthropological theorists (e.g. Kroeber, Radcliffe-Brown, Sapir, and Boas).
Typescripts of papers presented at the Symposium on Irrigation and Development, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Tucson, Arizona, December 1953.
Correspondence, memoranda, telegraph messages, receipts, 3 photographs, and a report re: Steward's trip to investigate "mummies" found in caves on Dall Island and Pennock Island near Ketchikan, Alaska. (For additional photographs, see Box 19, "Northwest Coast--Ketchikan Burials, 1940.")
Correspondence (from Alfred Kroeber and Frank Speck), maps, notes, typescripts, and reprints.
Correspondence, memoranda, grant requests, expense reports, and progress reports.
Passports with visas and stamps from Chile, Peru, Ecuador, and Argentina.
Typescript and correspondence.
Working papers of the Cross-Cultural Regularities Project.
Reprints and journals from Chile, Paraguay, Mexico, and Colombia. Photographs of Isla de Pascua artifacts held by the Museo de Concepcion, Chile.
Correspondence and notes.
Correspondence, notes, typescripts, maps, and reprints re: the native peoples of South America.
Correspondence and notes re: Steward's proposal to write a textbook.
Correspondence, memorandum, programs, and papers from the American Anthropology Society and American Ethnological Society joint symposium in Detroit, Michigan, December 1954.
Typescripts, correspondence, notes and referee comments
Lecture notes and a typescript of a speech on flood legends as an example of cultural diffusion given at "Pres. Thomas' dinner" on January 9, 1932.
Correspondence, memoranda, proposals, minutes and reports re: a 1951-1955 Ford Foundation Grant to the University of Illinois "for the further development of university resources for research in individual behavior and human relations."
"Southern Paiute Bands" typescript and letter to Ralph Barney re: Ute-Chemehuevi speaking people.
Memorandum and papers re: Japanese culture, history and agriculture.
Committee on the Preparation of a Textbook on Latin America, 1954
Correspondence, notes, manuscripts and sketches.
Picture postcards of Hazelton, British Columbia and Ketchikan, Alaska.
Lecture notes on cultural geography.
Lecture notes by Professors Jacobs, Demitri Shimkin, and Fellman.
Reprints, articles, and publication notices for books and papers written by Steward and others on evolution.
Correspondence, notes, sketches, typescripts re: Great Basin peoples (Ute, Paiute, Gosiute, Shoshoni Includes 4 photographs of a skull from a Ute burial site, Black Canyon National Monument, Colorado.
Transcriptions of Hopi, Taos, Pomo, Paiute, and Shoshonean songs.
Articles from the
Correspondence, notes, maps, a notebook of Steward's sketches of petroglyphs in Utah and Arizona, a zinc etch of a Dry Fork Canyon, Utah petroglyph by Frank Beckwith, 6 photographs of Missouri petroglyphs taken by G. A. Seib, 2 photographs of Barrier Canyon pictographs from the "Peabody Museum Expedition, 1930," and 3 photographs of "Indian Hieroglyphic Carvings found near Arco, Idaho."
Tracings of cultural and linguistic maps of South America.
Correspondence re: Demitri Shimkin's proposal to the National Research Council to study civil rights and poverty.
Field notebooks re: an archaeological excavation.
Abstract of a seminar presentation on the sponge industry.
Correspondence re: and typescript "The Anaguta: Observations on the Death of A Culture" by Stanley Diamond.
Correspondence and letters of recommendation re: Ronald Haak, one of Steward's PhD students at the University of Illinois.
Outline and incomplete typescript of Lehman's paper "The Kayah Society of Burma" re: field work for the Cross-Cultural Regularities Project.
Outline and typescript of "Being a Longshoreman: Its Social and Cultural Effects" by William Pilcher.
Outline of Randol's PhD thesis on Portuguese people in Provincetown, MA.
Correspondence and a preliminary outline of Thompson's PhD thesis on Japanese colonists in the Bolivian frontier.
Newsclippings, press releases, correspondence, certificates, and programs re: Steward's professional awards and achievements, including the 1952 Viking Award of the Wenner-Gren Foundation.
Book reviews and bibliographies, 1930-55
Correspondents include Chief Louis Billy Prince (Stuart Lake Carrier, Fort Saint James, British Columbia), Alfred Kroeber, W. D. Strong, Ralph Linton, Frank D. Fackenthal (Acting President of Columbia University), and Robert H. Lowie.
Including transcripts of the "Acculturation Seminar" (University of Illinois, 1960), correspondence and field reports (from Frederic K. Lehman, Charles Erasmus, and Toshinao Yoneyama) re: the Cross-Cultural Regularities Project, "An Analytical Model of the Transition to Economic Growth" by Everett E. Hagen (1957), and "Two Types of Kinship Rituals Among Malayo-Polynesian Peoples" by Toichi Mabuchi (1958).
Including a letter from Sidney Mintz commenting on the 1958 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, "Marriage and Terena Tribal Solidarity" by Roberto Cardosos de Oliveria, and "Agreement on the Exchange of Scientists Between the National Academy of Sciences of the USA and the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
Including requests for reprints of Steward's articles, position announcements from other universities, a memorandum from Dean Ranney re: the Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois (March 8, 1960), grant proposal to the Council of Learned Societies by John B. Cornell "The San Diego Blood Factor in Certain Peruvian Indians" by William R. Best, M.D., and letter from Louis Faron.
Including letter from Robert Manners re: his field work among Tuareg
peoples in northern Nigeria, correspondence with Chester A. Willets, Editor at McGraw-Hill, re:
Including requests for reprints of Steward's articles, position announcements from other universities, memoranda re: the 1960 Viking Award medalist, correspondence with Rodney Needham re: Richard Downs, a letter from Leslie White, correspondence with Verne F. Ray and Edward Norbeck re: humor and clowning, memoranda, correspondence and papers re: Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, a memorandum on "Anthropology and the Peace Corps" from Steward to the Board of the American Anthropological Association and the Anthropology Division of the National Academy of Science, correspondence with Morris Siegel, Elman Service, Demitri Shimkin, Lyle H. Lanier, Bill Alkire, Inez Adams, Ralph W. Burhoe, Charles A. Page, Toshinao Yoneyama, Shinobu Iwamura, Stanley Diamond, Louis Faron, Eric Wolf, Gordon Bowles, Robert Manners, Phillip D. Young, Selma Adler, and Oscar Lewis.
Including a photocopy of a letter from Jim Bohannon to Ed Hoebel critiquing Max Gluckman's approach to legal anthropology, reprint of "The Informational Model of Language" by Thomas A. Sebeok (1961), correspondence and papers re: Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, correspondence re: the Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Illinois, correspondence with Stanley Diamond re: Cross-Cultural Regularities Project and the inadequacy of the 1962 statement on racism by the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, drafts of letters to the editor re: "Edmonson's Neolithic Diffusion Rates" and "On Academic Freedom" by Steward, correspondence and field reports re: Frederic K. Lehman's research among the Chin and Kayah people of Burma, correspondence with Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr. (Director of the Bureau of American Ethnology), Joseph B. Casagrande, Robert Gray, Shuichi Nagata, Robert Braidwood, Richard Downs, John L. Sorenson, Shinobu Iwamura, T. Mabuchi, Louis Faron, Ralph A. Barney, Robert Manners, and L. P. Vidyarthi, and Steward's referee comments on the grant application "Anthropological Study of the Guayaki Indians in Paraguay" by Alfred Metraux.
Including correspondence with David L. Cole re: archaeology of the
Dalles-Deschutes region of Oregon, a typescript of Steward's review of
Including a letter from Donald D. Jackson, Editor, University of Illinois Press re: selection and evaluation of publications in anthropology, Louis Faron, and establishing an anthropology series.
Including correspondence with Dean Peltason and President David Henry re: interdisciplinary symposia and the Latin American Studies Program at the University of Illinois, correspondence with F. T. Wall and Provost Lanier re: Professor Wall's nomination to the Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Illinois, memoranda and reports from the American Association of University Professors (University of Illinois Chapter), reports from the President's Conference on "The Role of the University of Illinois in World Affairs."
Certificate of appreciation and letters from Chancellor Peltason and the Board of Trustees.
Correspondence re: Steward's chapter on "Cultural Ecology" in
Correspondence, page proofs, and publication agreement.
Including correspondence, Great Basin maps, and an unfinished typescript
Reprint, typescript, and correspondence
5 papers presented by Steward and Demitri Shimkin at the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences Conference on Evolutionary Theory and Human Progress, 1960
Typescript and correspondence
Correspondence and "Lead from Ignorance" (Steward's review of
Correspondence and reprints, including "Socio-Cultural Persistence Among Shoshoneans of the Carson River Basin (Nevada)" by Demitri B. Shimkin and Russell M. Reid and "Geographical Perspectives in Anthropology" by Marvin W. Mikesell.
Including and incomplete photocopy of "Autobiographical Appraisal by Julian H. Steward for National Academy of Sciences."
Correspondence and inventory of Steward's personal library which was sold to Southern Methodist University Library in 1972.
Including "Julian Steward: A Memorial by Edward M. Bruner," 1 portrait photographs of Steward, including photo with other inaugural members of the Center For Advanced Study, University of Illinois.
devotions, faith, serving, prayer meetings, sermons, illnesses, nursing
3/12/1842, Joined 2nd Baptist Church of Groton, Father Steward, pastor
Correspondence, programs, articles, notices re: the Memorial Temple.
Also includes a newsclipping (July 24, 1924) re: the dedication of a memorial honoring Gustafus
W. Schroeder and a typescript of
Includes a list of books sent to Rare Book Room June 11, 1979
4 photos of aboriginal New Zealander's with the notation, in Gustaf W. Schroeder's hand, "My distant, very distant relations, viz, from Auckland New Zealand," 1865
1 negative of Steward? on a boat.
Article describing Steward's field work among the Carrier Indians of central British Columbia during the summer of 1940 which serves as a partial guide to the photographs in the following folders.
Including a photograph of Steward with his informant, Chief Louis Billy Prince (UA negative #12469).