Writings
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Meggers, Betty Jane
label: Collection Creator
content: Evans, Clifford, 1920-1981
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content: Betty J. Meggers and Clifford Evans Papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 10 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1944-2011
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2013-01, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series contains the writings of Betty Meggers and Clifford Evans. They coauthored many of the papers and also collaborated with other researchers. A significant number of the journal articles and conference papers contain manuscript drafts, related correspondence, and photographs. Some contain published rebuttals to reviews. There are numerous conference papers prepared for meetings of the International Congress of Americanists (ICA) and the American Anthropological Association (AAA). There is significant material related to Meggers's book Amazonia: Man and Culture in a Counterfeit Paradise including notes, reviews and comments, distribution and publishing materials, photographs, correspondence with Aldine Publishing and Smithsonian Institution Press, and material related to the Brazilian, Japanese, and Mexican editions. In addition, there are published reviews written by Meggers and Evans along with letters to the editor. This series is arranged chronologically by date of publication.