Graduate School and Teaching
name: label: Collection Correspondent
content: Zalinger, Alvin D.
label: Collection Correspondent
content: Swift, Arthur L.
label: Collection Correspondent
content: Sturtevant, William C.
label: Collection Correspondent
content: Yanez Perez, Luis
label: Collection Correspondent
content: Wolf, Eric R.
label: Collection Correspondent
content: Service, Elman R. (Elman Rogers), 1915-1996
label: Collection Correspondent
content: Seda Bonilla, Eduardo, 1927-
label: Collection Correspondent
content: Steward, Julian Haynes, 1902-1972
label: Collection Correspondent
content: Reining, Priscilla
label: Collection Correspondent
content: Steinbert, Arthur
label: Collection Correspondent
content: Reining, Conrad Copeland, 1918-1984
label: Collection Correspondent
content: Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo
label: Collection Correspondent
content: Rouse, Irving, 1913-2006
label: Collection Correspondent
content: Nnoke Grant, Barbara S.
label: Collection Correspondent
content: O'Brien, Denise A.
label: Collection Correspondent
content: Padeilla, Elena
label: Collection Correspondent
content: Reichel-Dolmatoff, Alicia
label: Collection Correspondent
content: Dancer, Clifford C.
label: Collection Correspondent
content: Diamond, Stanley, 1922-1991
label: Collection Correspondent
content: Diskin, Martin
label: Collection Correspondent
content: Douglas, Richard M.
label: Collection Correspondent
content: Brown, Jennifer
label: Collection Correspondent
content: Caro, Isabel Sklow
label: Collection Correspondent
content: Codere, Helen F., 1917-2009
label: Collection Correspondent
content: Comhaire, Jean L.
label: Collection Correspondent
content: Ascher, Robert
label: Collection Correspondent
content: Boggs, Stephen Taylor
label: Collection Correspondent
content: Bott, Elizabeth
label: Collection Correspondent
content: Brant, Charles Sanford
label: Collection Correspondent
content: Armstrong, Robert Geiston
label: Collection Correspondent
content: Drake, St. Clair
label: Collection Correspondent
content: Drucker, Susana
label: Collection Correspondent
content: Dubreiul, Guy
label: Collection Correspondent
content: Griffith, Sanford
label: Collection Correspondent
content: Harris, J.S.
label: Collection Correspondent
content: Heath, Dwight Braley
label: Collection Correspondent
content: Leslie, Charles
label: Collection Correspondent
content: Manners, Robert A. (Robert Alan), 1913-1996
label: Collection Correspondent
content: McWilliams, Carey
label: Collection Correspondent
content: Meggers, Betty Jane
label: Collection Correspondent
content: Mintz, Sidney W. (Sidney Wilfred), 1922-2015
label: Collection Creator
content: Murra, John V. (John Victor), 1916-2006
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content: John Victor Murra papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2.5 Linear feet (5 boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1936 - 1982
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.1982-59, Series 7
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The materials in this series are among the oldest in the collection and the first to be acquired by the Smithsonian Institution in 1982.  The series primarily consists of reading and class notes taken by Murra while he was a student at the University of Chicago and class syllabi and lecture materials for the classes Murra later taught at a number of institutions.  The materials in this series also include Murra's exam books as a student, newspaper clippings, class handouts, and exams given by Murra to his students.  An occasional piece of correspondence and publications appear in these files.  Among the most notable items in this series are Murra's preparatory work for admission to the Ph.D. program at the University of Chicago and in particular two pages of handwritten comments by F. C. Cole on these efforts (see [University of Chicago]—Hopewell—Ph.D. Project in Archaeology).  His notes from the seminar he co-directed with Angel Palerm in Mexico in 1972 are also in this series.  The folder Student Voice is unique in that it is not a folder containing Murra's teaching materials, but rather a folder of newspaper and magazine clippings about student unrest in the United States and France in the late 1960s.  

The folders in this series are organized alphabetically by subject or institution.  Where known with certainty the archivist has grouped folders alphabetically by subject under the institution at which the materials were created.  Similarly, the archivist has placed materials in chronological order where possible.  In instances where most or all of the materials were undated, the original order of the materials was maintained.  The most notable examples are [Anthropology] 201 --Several Mixed Up Versions Needs Reworking, in which some of the materials where folded up inside a manila folder that was itself inside a manila folder, and [Miscellaneous Class Materials and Lecture Notes].  The oldest documents in this series are among the most fragile in the collection.  Consequently some of these documents have preservation photocopies and/or have been placed between two pieces of acid-free archival paper for better support and protection.  The preservation photocopies appear in the folders with the originals.  The archivist has also employed wrappers and papermarkers made from acid-free archival paper in some instances to better distinguish groups of notecards or lectures.  The restricted folder contains confidential information concerning individual students (e.g. social security numbers, course grades).

Additional materials relating to Murra's time in graduate school and his academic teaching may be found in Series I --Correspondence (most often under the name of an academic institution) and in Series V --Subject and Publications (most often under the subject title to one Murra's research interests).