Anthropology
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:
Fonds
Archives of the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology, 1915 - 2017
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/ARAN
Scope and Contents
The majority of records cover faculty governance and administration.
Dates:
1915 - 2017
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Fonds
Charles Bernard Denston: Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10248
Scope and Contents
Autobiography, short stories, poems, personal recollections of working at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and Duckworth Laboratory of Physical Anthropology in Cambridge, press cuttings and printed material on the experiences of former prisoners of war held by the Japanese.
Dates:
1938-2012
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Charles Gabriel Seligman: Ethnological Notes
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9396
Scope and Contents
Typescript notes on ethnological sources, letters and other papers.
Dates:
1910-1940 (circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Charles Myers: Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8073-8074
Scope and Contents
Journal of expedition to Torres Straits, articles, lecture notes and correspondence
Dates:
1898-1942 (circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Charles Thurstan Shaw: Correspondence and Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9534
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, both personal and professional, biographical material, professional papers from Thurstan Shaw’s time in Africa, archaeological notebooks and lecture notes.
Dates:
1914 - 2014
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Derek Stenning: Anthropological collections on Uganda
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7916
Scope and Contents
Four series of anthropological files relating to Uganda.
Dates:
1955-1965 (circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Item
'Die Anfange der Musik' by Carl Stumpf, 1909
Item
Reference Code: GBR/3377/CSMyers/5/2/29
Fonds
George Kingsley Roth and Adolf Brewster Brewster: Papers on Fiji
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8780
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises G.K. Roth's subject files on Fijian affairs, culture, history, sociology and administration. Some of the material is in Fijian. The subject files have been recorded as found [i.e. transcribed directly from the covers of the files]. The terms 'native', 'natives' and 'native administration', as used by Roth in his capacity as a colonial administrator to refer to Fijian people and the structure of colonial government, have been retained in their original context....
Dates:
1870-1957 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Letters, Memoranda, and Journal, containing the History of Mr William Gooch [Fellow of Caius College], Astronomer of the Daedalus Transport, 1786 - 1835
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Mm.06.48
Scope and Contents
'Letters, Memoranda, and Journal, containing the History of Mr William Gooch [Fellow of Caius College], Astronomer of the Daedalus Transport: from the time of his entering College in 1786, to his premature end in 1792.' These letters, the greater portion of which are in Gooch's own writing, and written to his parents, give a complete history of his life, the assistance he met with in enabling him to come to College, the examination for his degree (1791), his appointment as Astronomer, and...
Dates:
1786 - 1835
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Fonds
Meyer Fortes: Ashanti Social Survey
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9359
Scope and Contents
Papers relating mainly to Fortes's research and social survey in Ashanti [now a region of southern Ghana], 1945-46. This includes field data, blank questionnaires, completed questionnaires, background research in preparation for the survey and papers relating to the reports and articles produced as a result. Additional material includes a collection of offprints loosely on the subject of West African history and anthropology, mostly Nigeria and Ghana, and papers relating to the establishment...
Dates:
1873-1978 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Meyer Fortes: Notebooks, correspondence and papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8405
Scope and Contents
Comprises: correspondence with British anthroplogists and ethnologists, including former pupils and junior colleagues of Meyer Fortes, arranged in chronological order by year; a series of subject files, many relating to research in the Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] and Ashanti and on the Tallensi (or Talensi) people, notes, offprints, typescripts of articles, lecture notes ; desk notebooks, journals and diaries; two volume typescript of 'Kinship and social order'. The series of subject files which...
Dates:
1923-1983
Conditions Governing Access:
Catalogued material (except for noted restricted correspondence) is available for consultation, but readers are advised that copyright remaining in the writings of Meyer Fortes is the property of his daughter, whose permission is necessary for publication.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Minutes of meetings of the Cambridge University Anthropological Club, 1902 - 1910
File
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/Min.IX.10
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Management Group:
Records in this category - Minutes of University associations and clubs, occasionally with related records - cover staff social and trades union associations, University fund-raising bodies and research groups, and student clubs.
Dates:
1902 - 1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Fonds
Papers of Alison Izzett
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 407
Scope and Contents
Comprises 11 journals compiled by Alison Izzett while employed by the Colonial Office as a social worker in Nigeria, 1945-60. These are arranged by tour of service, and include notes relating to visits, both professional and personal, to the Gold Coast [Ghana], Uganda, Kenya, the Sudan, South Africa as well as journeys to and from England. Three journals relate to subsequent visits to Nigeria post-independence in Nov. 1964 and in 1972-3. Together with a copy of Izzett's B.Litt thesis...
Dates:
1945 - 1976
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Penelope 'Pepe' Roberts: papers on Ghana
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 383
Content Description
Field notebooks, notes, draft and published articles, and audio-visual material relating for the most part to Roberts's research on education in Ghana. Together with a series of photographs and slides documenting aspects of life in Sefwi Wiawso and Roberts's time in Ghana and Nigeria.
Dates:
1961 - 2009
Conditions Governing Access:
Researchers wishing to consult this collection will be required to complete a data release form. Part of one file (RCMS 383/2/5) is closed to researchers under data protection legislation. For further information, please contact rcs@lib.cam.ac.uk.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Item
'Primitive Colour Vision', 190105
Item
Reference Code: GBR/3377/WHRivers/4/7
Scope and Contents
The article is concerned with the language used to denote colour in different cultures.
Dates:
190105
Fonds
Ralph Bulmer: Scandinavian field notes
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7947-7948
Scope and Contents
Typescript transcripts of field notes from Northern Norway and Swedish Lapland. At the front of both volumes is a photocopy of a covering letter from R.N.H. Bulmer to the Cambridge University Librarian, 6 August 1973, regarding the collection's terms of use.
Dates:
1950-1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Ronald Wood Paine: Photographs of Fiji, Hawaii and Vancouver Island
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8824
Scope and Contents
Photographs of people, places and flora, in numbered sequence. The first album covers Vancouver Island, Hawaii and Fiji, 1925-1926; the second Fiji, 1925-1927, 1928, 1931 and 1933-1934. The third album covers Fiji, 1927, and has additional photographs by Sandy Lees, Ken Allardyce, Lorna Reay, John Campbell, [Chapman], Charles Nott, H.S. Ladd, George Roth (Warden of Sogulu), Ronald Garvey and A.F. Lees. The numbers connected with photographs are not necessarily in the same order as they are...
Dates:
1923-1951 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Sir Grahame Clark: archaeological papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9409
Scope and Contents
Comprises a series of research or subject files, containing mostly notes, lecture notes, occasional correspondence, offprints, illustrations and drawings. Also included is a file of notes on archaeology and anthropology at Cambridge University, with investigation into provision for archaeology in UK Universities, a file on the history of archaeology at other British universities and a file of notes gathered for a history of archaeology and archaeologists. The titles of some subject files...
Dates:
1931-1995 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
The Papers of George Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/PIRI
Scope and Contents
The papers include: papers relating to GPR's anthropological and other scientific work, including involvement in eugenics; papers relating to his political activities, including letters to and from the British Union of Fascists, mostly concerning his 1935 run for Parliament; and large number of documents related to GPR’s 18B detention and internment.
Dates:
1831 - 1999
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre