Géza Róheim papers
name: label: Creator
content: Róheim, Géza, 1891-1953
place: label: Place
content: Papua New Guinea
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research in 1992.
creator: label: Creator
content: Róheim, Géza, 1891-1953
culture: label: Culture
content: Quechan (Yuma/Cuchan)
label: Culture
content: Aboriginal Australians
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: Géza Róheim was born in Hungary and trained in human geography at the universities of Leipzig and Berlin. He went through psychanalysis under Sandor Ferenczi and became a lay practioner. He was also among the earliest anthropologists to work within Freudian theory, his earliest works being largely an application of that theory to data gathered from readings. In 1928, Marie Bonapart offered to support Róheim in an expedition which carried him to Somaliland, Australia, Normanby Island, and the United States. Thus between 1928 and 1930, he carried out field work with the Somali, Aranda and Lirittja, Juau, Dobu, and Yuma. In 1938, Roheim took up residence in the United States. In 1938-1939, he was on the staff of Worchester State Hospital in Massachusetts, and following that he was in private psychoanalytic practice in New York. In 1947, he worked among the Navajo.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 7.75 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1930 - circa 1950
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.1992-02
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Manuscripts
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection is unprocessed.  Contact the repository for more information.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Manuscripts
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of notebooks concerning the Duau, Dobu, and Yuma and some materials on the Australian Aborigines. In addition, there are manuscripts of Róheim's writing and reprints of articles. The existence of Navajo notes has not been determined.

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relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The Special Collections and Archives at the University of California, San Diego holds the Géza Róheim Papers (MSS 46).