Riva Berleant-Schiller papers
name: label: Creator
content: Berleant-Schiller, Riva
place: label: Place
content: Caribbean Area
label: Place
content: Barbuda
label: Place
content: Montserrat
label: Place
content: Dominica
label: Place
content: Nevis
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from Riva Berleant-Schiller in 2005.
creator: label: Creator
content: Berleant-Schiller, Riva
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Riva Berleant-Schiller is a specialist in plantation systems and peasant systems in land use and tenure in Carribean societies. She received her PhD from SUNY-Stony Brook and is professor emerita of anthropology at the University of Connecticut.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4.5 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1970 - circa 1980
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2005-12
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection is unprocessed.  Contact the repository for more information.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This collection is comprised of Riva Berleant-Schiller's field notes from her research on the islands of Barbuda (1971, 1973, 1977, 1987), Dominica (1977), Montserrat (1979), and Nevis; maps; issues of Barbuda Voice; teaching materials; and correspondence.

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