University of Massachusetts
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Kerewsky-Halpern, Barbara
label: Collection Creator
content: Halpern, Joel Martin
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content: Joel Martin Halpern and Barbara Kerewsky-Halpern papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 14 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1968-1992
container: label: Container
content: Box 48-60
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.1986-17, Series 10
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series consists of Halpern's teaching and administrative files as a professor at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. These include syllabi, lecture notes, student papers, exams, and student grades from his courses on urban anthropology; rural and peasant communities; culture through film; people of Eastern Europe; Judaic cultures; history of the family; cultures of South East Asia; individual and society; social organization; political anthropology; and introductory anthropology. Among the student papers are autobiographical essays by his Southeast Asian refugee students that were published in Far East Comes Near, which he co-edited with Lucy Nguyen. Other materials in this series include dissertation prospectuses, student correspondence, department memos, his annual faculty reports, and files documenting his involvement in developing an ethnic archive at University of Massachusetts.