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RISM Research Collections and Archives 1947-1985 The RISM Research Collections and Archives dating from 1947 to 1985 include materials related to the 1947 Puerto Rico Project, headed by Professor Julian H. Steward (1902-1972); Research Training Program for the Study of Man in the Tropics (RTPSMT), a project established at Columbia University under the auspices of the Department of Anthropology, 1955-1957; and the Center for Haitian Studies, 1967-1970, which was transferred to the University of Montreal under the direction of Professor Guy Dubreuil. The materials also document basic research projects in collaboration with scholars and institutions in and outside of the United States. Records of training programs for field workers in the social sciences, unpublished conference materials, and personal and/or professional papers of RISM Fellows are also a part of the Archives. In some cases, there are related photographic, audio, video, and film materials. The RISM Research Collections and Archives are in the process of being transferred to the New York University Bobst Library (NYU). The transfer process is ongoing and is expected to be completed by the end of the 2006. Human Subject Data and Confidential Materials are included and such materials will be subject to restrictions managed by the NYU archivist. The RISM Research Collections and Archives are undergoing preliminary processing at RISM prior to transfer to NYU. For information regarding these materials please contact June Anderson (junand@rism.org, telephone (1) 212-768-4991).
RESEARCH COLLECTIONS (1947 - 1985) 1947-1950 Puerto Rico Project The Puerto Rico Project represents the pioneering work of Professor Julian H. Steward, a key figure in the field of anthropology. Sponsors of the study included the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, the government of Puerto Rico, and the Rockefeller Foundation. The collection contains bilingual material in English and Spanish, which includes correspondence, conference papers, minutes, oral interviews, diary entries, fieldwork reports, draft manuscript papers, clippings, print material, miscellaneous papers, a photo contact sheet, and children's drawings. Maps and oversized materials are also included. 1957, 1961 The Study of the Aspirations of Youth in a Developing Society (The Trinidad Study) Sponsors Publications Zavalloni, Marisa. Rubin, Vera and Marisa Zavalloni. The Trinidad Study archives are from parallel studies, conducted in 1957 and 1961 in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture and the Central Statistical Office of Trinidad and Tobago and the Center for Education in Latin America. More than 1,000 secondary school students from 30 schools in Trinidad and Tobago were involved in the study. The archives contain questionnaires, student responses, surveys, code books, IBM keypunch cards, and sundry papers. [Human Subject Data] 1960 Medical Students Survey Sponsors Medical Students Survey, a cross-cultural study conducted in the 1960s, examined medical students' attitudes. The materials include correspondence, questionnaires, and responses. [Human Subject Data]
Caribbean Mental Health Census Sponsors Caribbean Mental Health Census documents RISM's collaborative work with the Caribbean Federation for Mental Health (CFMH). The collection includes census enumeration, questionnaires and surveys and data analysis. [Human Subject Data] 1964-1968 Peace Corps-Studyman Bolivia. U. S. Peace Corps Sponsors Publications Omran, Abdel R., William J. McEwen, and Mahfouz H. Zaki. McEwen, William J. The materials document RISM's study while under contract with the U. S. Peace Corps. A medical-anthropological program, it was conducted in five ecologically different rural communities in Bolivia. The documentation contains diverse materials which have been completely inventoried, including biographical index cards, laboratory processing records, blood type cards with blood samples, tuberculin surveys, household structure diagrams, social surveys, attitude and health questionnaires, community census records, community study outlines and indexed field note cards, computer generated charts of census and distributions, epidemiological reports and studies, ethnographic reports, field notes, microfiche, microfilm, photographic material, correspondence with field workers and papers associated with the publications, Changing Rural Bolivia and Epidemiological Studies in Bolivia. Materials appended to this collection include IBM punch cards, data printouts, accounting material, video (VHS) tapes, books, audio recordings, and exhibition material. [Human Subject Data] 1966-1969 Inter-University Consortium for Training in the Caribbean Sponsors The Consortium is a RISM-coordinated program of four North American universities, Brandeis University, Columbia University, McGill University, and Montreal University in collaboration with the University of the West Indies. The three-year program included over 100 North American students with advanced graduate degrees in anthropology. Training and research programs were carried out in Antigua, British Honduras (Belize), Costa Rica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyana, Jamaica, Marie Galante, Trinidad and Tobago, and St. Lucia. Over the short run, the program produced 12 Ph.D. dissertations and 33 masters' theses. The Consortium program materials document an early field-training program, funded by the Ford Foundation, for graduate students from universities in the United States, Canada, and the West Indies. The collection includes correspondence, independent research and fieldwork reports, papers associated with annual conferences, and print materials. May contain confidential materials related to graduate students. 1970-1975 Study of Chronic Marihuana Users in Jamaica (The Ganja Project) Sponsors Publications Rubin, Vera and Lambros Comitas. Rubin, Vera. Comitas, Lambros. The Ganja Project materials relate to a RISM study commissioned by the Center for the Studies of Narcotic and Drug Abuse of the National Institute of Mental Health on the chronic use of cannabis in the Caribbean. Project materials include correspondence, CVs, regional background studies for seven Jamaican communities, questionnaires and response data, manuscripts, reports, publication and publicity materials, book reviews and clippings from a report issued in March 1972 and serialized in the Jamaica Daily Gleaner. [Human Subject Data] 1973-1977 Cultural Factors in Population Program (Population Studies) Sponsors Publication The Population Studies materials contain questionnaires, surveys, reports, and photographs related to cultural factors in population. These materials include several small collections documenting international and cross-cultural studies of six Technical Support Projects staffed by host scholars of national institutes and universities in: Colombia: Demographic Pressure and Land Tenure within Indian and Peasant Communities in the Highland Cauca Jamaica: Sociocultural Factors in Fertility Korea: Social, Cultural, and Ecological Factors Affecting Population Processes in Korea Philippines: Sociocultural Levels of Fertility in the Philippines Sociocultural Context of Fertility Decline in a Developing City: Davao, Philippines Thailand: The Value of Children Research topics include fertility patterns, the impact of rapid population change, health services, the law in relation to children, improved educational and economic opportunities for women, and the development of community-based economic initiatives. With the exception of the Jamaica project, these papers were not published. 1973-1985 Sociocultural and Psychological Factors in Longevity: Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Aging and Longevity (Longevity Project) Sponsors Publication In 1982, a second joint United States-Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics symposium on aging and longevity in the Caucasus was held at Columbia University. The papers presented at this symposium remain unpublished. The archives of the Longevity Project document a multidisciplinary, cross-cultural study conducted by scientists from the United States and the Soviet Union aimed at understanding the aging process. The project was funded by the Ford Foundation and the National Institute on Aging and facilitated by the International Research and Exchange Board (IREX-US). Participating institutions included the USSR Academy of Sciences, the Universities of California (at San Francisco), Kentucky, Kansas, and RISM. The collection includes questionnaires, surveys, reports, and print material. A special collection of bibliographic materials was assembled in preparation of and during the Project. These materials may be appended to the collection. [Human Subject Data] 1976-1980 Anthropological Research and Greek Hashish Users (The Greek Hashish Study) Sponsors This comparative research was carried out in traditional isolated, non-hashish using, culturally homogeneous villages in Thessaly and in urban Athenian centers with high-density chronic hashish users. The archives contain a small yet significant collection of anthropological research that includes correspondence, grant proposals, and supporting documentation. [Human Subject Data] 1977-1979 Behavior among Maya Women in Yucatan in Relation to Demographic Change Publications Leavitt, Ruby, ed. Previous publications The project was co-directed by Dr. Mary L. Elmendorf of RISM and Dr. Alfonso Villa Rojas of the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia in Mexico. The study of changing roles and status of women in several Mayan communities builds on long-term research previously undertaken by the co-directors, explores the impact of changing economic and educational opportunities on the role and status of women, and the influence of available new ways of life on decision making. Research focused on linkages between fertility, integrated rural development programs, and women's changing roles, and provides basic information for implementing maternal/child health, and family planning services. 1977 - 1979 Increasing Educational and Economic Options of Adolescent Females: A Study of Policy Implications for Reducing Fertility and Raising Female Status The project, designed to explore the interrelations of education and career opportunities for young women and levels of fertility was conducted by Dorian Powell and Hermione McKenzie, University of the West Indies, in collaboration with Jamaican and U.S. consultants. The study of 500 young women of comparable educational ability (based on examination results) but different levels of educational and economic opportunity includes comprehensive analysis of sociocultural background factors and differential fertility and mating patterns. TRAINING PROGRAM MATERIAL (1955 - ca. 1961) 1955-1957 Seminar Materials for the Research Training Program for the Study of Man in the Tropics Sponsor Materials related to an anthropological seminar series organized by Dr. Rubin and conducted at Columbia University. Documents include correspondence to lecturers, print material, and teaching papers. circa. 1961 The Jamaica Peace Corps Training Project Sponsor The Jamaica Peace Corps materials, which document RISM's work under a contract with the U.S. Peace Corps to train its first team of volunteers in Jamaica, contain evaluations from the program's staff, training pamphlets, personnel files, budgets, newspaper clippings, teachers' guides, medical screening data, certificates (blank), CVs, language guides, photographs and biographies. Films and audiocassettes of the Peace Corps graduation ceremony have been appended to the collection. May contain confidential materials related to volunteers.[Human Subject Data] CONFERENCE AND SYMPOSIUM PAPERS (1956 - 1984)1956 First Inter-American Conference on Caribbean Research Sponsors Publications 1957 Plantation Systems in the New World Sponsors Publications 1959 Social and Cultural Pluralism in the Caribbean SponsorsRISM New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) Publication 1960 Culture, Society and Health Sponsors Publication 1961 Political Sociology of the British Caribbean Sponsors Publication 1967 Research and Resources of Haiti SponsorsRISM Ford Foundation (The Center for Haitian Studies was organized and established at this conference) Publications 1970 Culture et Développement en Haiti Sponsors This was follow-up to the above symposium and was held at the University of Montréal, Canada, May 6-9, 1970. It was at this symposium that the Center for Haitian Studies was transferred from RISM to the University of Montréal, headed by Professor Guy Dubreuil. 1973 Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Cannabis
Publication 1976 Comparative Perspectives on Slavery in New World Plantation Societies Sponsors Publication 1981 Sociocultural and Psychological Factors in Longevity: Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Aging and Longevity (Longevity Project) Sponsors Publication 1982 Sociocultural and Psychological Factors in Longevity: Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Aging and Longevity (Longevity Project) Sponsors In 1982, a second joint United States-Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics symposium on aging and longevity in the Caucasus was held at Columbia University. The papers presented at this symposium remain unpublished. 1984 New Perspectives on Caribbean Studies: Toward the 21st Century SponsorsFord Foundation RISM City University of New York International Development Research Centre (Canada) National Science Foundation Publication All other conference papers are unpublished. Complete videotapes of all open sessions and roundtable discussions are appended to the papers and project correspondence.
PROFESSIONAL PAPERS (1947 - 1985) 1947-1969 Carl Withers, Ph.D. (1900-1970) This collection contains professional papers, manuscripts and a collection of photographs documenting rural life in Cuba between 1947 and 1948 and again during the summers of 1949 and 1950. The collection, bequeathed to RISM by Dr. Withers, who also published under the name James West, consists of bilingual material, including unedited manuscript notes on Cuba, collected folk tales, children's drawings, some correspondence, a substantial number of black and white photographic prints, and some negatives. All material unpublished. 1951-1985 Vera D. Rubin, Ph.D. (1911-1985) Papers associated with the founder and first director of RISM. The collection includes correspondence, conference and symposia proceedings, print material, photographs, teaching papers, proposals, published and unpublished manuscripts, post cards, fieldwork reports and notes, lectures and speeches, and clippings. ca. 1970 - 1976 Sula Benet, Ph.D. (1903-1982) Dr. Benet, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Hunter College and senior research associate at RISM, was a colleague of Dr. Rubin and Dr. Margaret Mead for many years. Her papers include correspondence, teaching papers, longevity and aging studies conducted between 1970 and 1973. Also included are reel-to-reel tapes, genealogy charts, questionnaires, surveys and 35 mm color slides possibly used for public lectures.
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