SMITHSONIAN OFFICE OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH RECORDS
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Riesenberg, Saul H.
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content: Saul H. Riesenberg papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964-1976
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2017-23, Series 23
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content: Archival materials
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content: These records are arranged chronologically. Most of them deal with the reorganization of Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution when Ethnology and Anthropology were merged into the Smithsonian Office for Anthropological Research in 1964. A copy of the guidelines for the reorganization and the minutes at which these proposals for the new structure were discussed are among these papers. The merger resulted in the search for a new leader. The "Leader search" folder includes curricula vitae, evaluations, lists of publications, and letters of recommendations for candidates for this position. Some of the correspondence deals with a controversial offer made to A. Hoebel. One of the letters is a draft of a letter Senator Hubert Humphrey sent to Dillon Rpley in support of Hoebel's candidacy. The Oral History Interview is a transcript of an interview with Riesenberg conducted in 1975 in which he describes the formation of the Senate of Scientists at the Smithsonian.