Charles Dean Callender papers
name: label: Creator
content: Callender, Charles, 1928-1986
place: label: Place
content: North America
label: Place
content: Africa, North
topic: label: Topic
content: Kenuz (African people)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from Diane Marilyn Lichtenstein in 1997 and 1998.
creator: label: Creator
content: Callender, Charles, 1928-1986
culture: label: Culture
content: Meskwaki (Fox)
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: Charles Callender was born on October 30, 1925. He earned a M.A. (1954) and Ph.D. (1958) in anthropology from the University of Chicago. While affiliated with the American University in Cairo, Callendar interviewed Nubian migrants in Cairo and Alexandria as part of the Nubian Ethnological Survey. In October 1962, he traveled to the Dahmit District of Nubia where he studied the rituals of the Kenuz. Callender returned to the U.S. in 1963 when he joined the faculty of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Callender died in 1986.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 11.92 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1939-1984
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.1997-29
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
processinfo: label: Processing Information
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scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The Charles Callender Papers contain class lecture notes, field materials from the Fox Census Project (1949-1954) and his work among the Kenuz in the Dahmit District in Nubia, and his correspondence and manuscripts relating to his work on the Northeast Volume of the Handbook of North American Indians. Among the Kenuz materials are the field notes of Callender's assistants Fadwa El Guindi and Mohamad Fikri Abdel Wahab and his interviewers including Nawal el Messiri.

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