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Frank Speck’S Office, Edmund S. Carpenter Dec 1998

Frank Speck’S Office, Edmund S. Carpenter

Maine History

Edmund S. Carpenter studied anthropology under Frank Speck at the University of Pennsylvania and taught at the University of Toronto, the University of California at Santa Cruz, the New School for Social Research, and other institutions. An internationally recognized expert on tribal art, his numerous publications include Oh, What A Blow That Phantom Gave Me!, Eskimo Realities, They Became What They Beheld, and the 12-volume Materials For The Study Of Social Symbolism In Ancient And Tribal Art. He remembers Frank Siebert at Penn with the regulars in Frank Speck ’5 office.


Some Memories Of Frank Siebert, Dean F. Snow Dec 1998

Some Memories Of Frank Siebert, Dean F. Snow

Maine History

Dean R. Snow, a professor of anthropology at Pennsylvania State University and author of numerous books and articles on the archaeology and ethnohistory of Native Northeastern America, was once on the faculty of the University of Maine at Orono and was a frequent visitor at Indian Island. He has known Frank Siebert for almost thirty years and has this to say about Frank as colleague and as field worker.


Maine Folklife, Vol. 4, Iss. 1, Maine Folklife Center Apr 1998

Maine Folklife, Vol. 4, Iss. 1, Maine Folklife Center

Maine Folklife Center Newsletter

Northeast Archives welcomes Archivist Stephen Green. For the first time in its forty-year history, a highly trained professional archivist manages Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History. I am extremely pleased to be able to introduce Stephen Green, Archivist. Stephen comes to us from the University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio, where he has been Library Director since 1996. Previously he served as Sound and Image Librarian at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill for the Southern Historical Folklife and Oral History Collections. He also served as Archivist for the Appalachian Center Sound Archives at …


Coca Production On The Inca Frontier: The Yungas Of Chuquioma, Catherine J. Julien Jan 1998

Coca Production On The Inca Frontier: The Yungas Of Chuquioma, Catherine J. Julien

Andean Past

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Creating A Ruin In Colonial Cusco: Sacsahuaman And What Was Made Of It, Carolyn S. Dean Jan 1998

Creating A Ruin In Colonial Cusco: Sacsahuaman And What Was Made Of It, Carolyn S. Dean

Andean Past

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The Maine Folklife Center Curriculum Guide, Irene Jackson Jan 1998

The Maine Folklife Center Curriculum Guide, Irene Jackson

Northeast Folklore Monographs

The Maine Folklife Center Curriculum Guide is a way to bring life into Maine Studies curricula by personalizing history and creating new connections between students and their communities. The guide is geared to help teachers fulfill the Maine Department of Education Learning Results (July, 1997), many of which call for primary research and the understanding of individual lives in an historical context. Specifically, the guide presents an introduction to using the Maine Folklife Center and four units: one on conducting oral histories, one on games, and two on the lumbering life. The games and lumbering units are based on selections …