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Documenting Women Trowelblazers: A National Anthropological Archives Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon
Anthropologist Alice Cunningham Fletcher
It’s American Archives Month! Come participate in a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon to help tell the stories of women “trowelblazers” in the field of anthropology, drawing on collections held at the Smithsonian’s National Anthropological Archives and Human Studies Film Archives. Learn about the roles women played in some of the field’s major breakthroughs. Get to know anthropologists such as ethnomusicologist
Francis Densmore , Standing Rock Sioux anthropologist and activist
Beatrice Medicine , archaeologist Rose Solecki, and economic anthropologist
Stanley Ann Dunham (mother of Barack Obama).
No Wikipedia editing experience necessary. Training and refreshments will be provided.
Laptops are required. Please bring your own.
When
Friday, October 18, 2019 1:30PM-4PM
Where
Q?rius, The Coralyn W. Whitney Science Center
Ground Floor,
National Museum of Natural History
10th St. & Constitution Ave. NW,
Washington, DC 20560
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Ruth Bunzel ,1898-1990 - Field: ethnography,
(WikiData)
, Potential Source: Ruth Bunzel Papers, PL 2007-10, PL 92-35, MS 4609, and in other collections as correspondent
Anne Chapman ,1922-2010 - Field: ethnography,
(WikiData)
, Potential Source: Anne Chapman Papers on Tolupan, and some photos
Esther Schiff Goldfrank ,1896-1997 - Field: ethnography,
(WikiData)
, Potential Source: Esther Schiff Goldfrank Papers, and in other collections (AES, etc.)
Erminnie A. Smith ,1836-1886 - Field: ethnography, linguistics (she has been called "the first woman field ethnographer"),
(WikiData)
Potential Source: #MS + Hewitt?
https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2014.6
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Erminnie-Adele-Platt-Smith
https://books.google.com/books?id=h-6WCBQPZdoC&pg=PA192&dq=erminnie+adele+platt+smith&hl=en&ppis=_c&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiF9_7l-_vkAhVCmlkKHdUYDI4Q6wEwA3oECAQQAQ#v=onepage&q=erminnie%20adele%20platt%20smith&f=false
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33457#page/112/mode/1up
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33484#page/87/mode/1up
Potential Source: Matilda Coxe Stevenson Photographs + #MS
https://siarchives.si.edu/blog/wonderful-women-wednesday-matilda-coxe-stevenson
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/30247880.pdf
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/40170339.pdf?ab_segments=0%252Fbasic_SYC-4631%252Ftest&refreqid=excelsior%3Ac33d67b0d8bf5db6c3558a90055018f6
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Potential Source: papers, photos, and multiple # MS)
http://siarchives.si.edu/research/sciservwomendensmore.html
https://siarchives.si.edu/blog/wonderful-women-wednesday-frances-densmore
http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/199702/01_smiths_densmore/docs/1early.shtml
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/536558.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3Ae383ba4db748fccdbf423a05872fb17
Cynthia Irwin-Williams ,1936-1990 - Field: archaeology, southwest,
(WikiData)
, Potential Source: Cynthia Irwin-Williams Papers
Frederica de Laguna ,1906-2004 - Field: ethnography, archaeology,
(WikiData)
, Potential Source: Frederica de Laguna Papers, and many other materials (sound recordings and in other collections)
Ruth Landes ,1908-1991 - Field: ethnography,
(WikiData)
, Potential Source: Ruth Landes Papers
Betty Meggers ,1921-1912 - Field: archaeology,
(WikiData)
Potential Source: Betty J. Meggers and Clifford Evans Papers
https://siarchives.si.edu/blog/betty-j-meggers-pioneer-environmental-archaeology
https://siarchives.si.edu/blog/wonderful-women-wednesday-dr-betty-meggers
https://archive.archaeology.org/0305/abstracts/meggers.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/19/world/in-an-amazon-cave-light-is-shed-on-early-americans.html
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GA
Potential Source: papers, photos, and multiple # MS)
https://siarchives.si.edu/blog/wonderful-women-wednesday-alice-cunningham-fletcher
https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200196222/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/660460.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A7be98d0577fa6bb3c50b31338c274cfb
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Ethel M. Albert ,1918-1989 - Field: ethnography, linguistics
, Potential Source: Ethel Mary Albert Papers
Riva Berleant-Schiller ,b. 1935 - Field: ethnography
, Potential Source: Riva Berleant-Schiller Papers
Lisa Chickering ,b. 1922 - Field: ethnography + film
, Potential Source: Lisa Chickering and Jeanne Porterfield collection
May Mandelbaum Edel ,1909-1964 - Field: ethnography, linguistics
, Potential Source: May Mandelbaum Edel Papers
Valerie Fennell - Field: ethnography
, Potential Source: Valerie Fennell Papers
Kaja Finkler - Field: ethnography
, Potential Source: Kaja Finkler Papers
Ann K. Fischer ,1919-1971 - Field: medical anthropology
, Potential Source: Papers of John L. Fischer and Ann K. Fischer
Ethel Cutler Freeman ,1886-1972 - Field: ethnography +film
, Potential Source: Ethel Cutler Freeman Papers
Vivian Garrison ,1933-2013 - Field: medical anthropology
, Potential Source: Vivian Garrison Papers
Sister Marie Inez Hilger ,1891-1977 - Field: ethnography
, Potential Source: Sister Marie Inez Hilger Papers (sound recordings and within other collections as well)
Carol F. Jopling ,1917-2000 - Field: ethnography, librarian/information studies
Potential Source 1: Carol F. Jopling photographs of Kuna, Choco, and Guaymi of Panama, 1981-1984 ,
Potential Source 2: Carol F. Jopling Papers + photographs of Kuna, Choco, and Guaymi of Panama
Linda Klug ,b. 1940 - Field: ethnography
, Potential Source: Linda Klug Papers
Carol Kramer ,1943-2002 - Field: archaeology
, Potential Source: Carol Kramer Papers
Judith MacDougall ,b. 1938 - Field: filmmaker
Elizabeth H. Metcalf ,-1925 - Field: ethnography +photography
, Potential Source: Elizabeth H. and Sarah S. Metcalf photograph collection relating to the Philippines
Sarah S. Metcalf ,-1939 - Field: ethnography +photography
, Potential Source: Elizabeth H. and Sarah S. Metcalf photograph collection relating to the Philippines
Jeanne Porterfield ,1923-2010 - Field: ethnography + film
, Potential Source: Lisa Chickering and Jeanne Porterfield collection
Helen C. Rountree ,b. 1944 - Field: ethnography & local VA Indian history
, Potential Source: Helen C. Rountree Papers
Winifred Smeaton Thomas ,1903-1987 - Field: ethnography/archaeology, middle east
, Potential Source: Winifred Smeaton Thomas Papers
Marion Stirling Pugh ,1911-1994 - Field: archaeology + film
, Potential Source: Matthew Williams Stirling and Marion Stirling Pugh Papers
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2001/05/11/marion-stirling-pugh-89/01329ba8-f32b-4d66-83fb-9f3c311aaefb/
https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2018/03/08/archive-discoveries-in-honor-of-international-womens-day-marion-stirling/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2001/05/11/marion-stirling-pugh-89/01329ba8-f32b-4d66-83fb-9f3c311aaefb/
ttps://prabook.com/web/marion_stirling.pugh/1669677
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Start date : 2019-10-18 13:30 (America/New York)
End date : 2019-10-18 16:30
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