Arnold Strickon papers
name: label: Creator
content: Strickon, Arnold
place: label: Place
content: South America
label: Place
content: Argentina
label: Place
content: China
label: Place
content: Mexico
topic: label: Topic
content: Gauchos
label: Topic
content: Ranching
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from Herbert Lewis in 1999.
creator: label: Creator
content: Strickon, Arnold
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content: Arnold Strickon papers
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: Arnold Strickon was a cultural anthropologist whose research included studies of ranching communities in Argentina and rural farmers in Wisconsin.

Born in 1930 in the Bronx, NY, Strickon graduated with an AB in anthropology from City College of New York in 1952. The following two years were spent in military service in Korea, after which Strickon entered graduate school at Columbia University. His doctoral fieldwork, which focused on a ranching community in Argentina, examined social class, patron -client networks, and the ranching industry. He received his PhD in 1960 with his dissertation, "The Grandsons of the Gauchos: A Study in Subcultural Persistence."

Strickon pursued various topics in his research over the years, including the economic aspects of social life and ethnicity in Wisconsin among rural farmers. 

Strickon taught for a year at the University of Nevada and for four years at Brandeis before joining the faculty at the University of Wisconsin in 1965, where he remained for the rest of his career. He retired in 1990.

Strickon was married twice, first to Anna Garner, who accompanied Strickon to the field in graduate school, and later Phyllis Sweet. Strickon died in 1997.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.67 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1952-1993
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.1999-32
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is organized into three series: 1. Research; 2. Writings; and 3. Teaching.
bibliography: label: Selected Bibliography
content: 1989. "The Norwegian-American Dairy-Tobacco Strategy in Southwestern Wisconsin" (with Robert A. Ibarra) in  -- Norwegian-American Studies --  vol 32, p. 3-30.

1983. Norwegians and Tobacco in Wisconsin: The Changing Dynamoics of Ethnicity" (with Robert A. Ibarra) in  -- Ethnic and Racial Studies -- .

1974. Investment Behavior and Elite Social Structures in Latin America" (with R. Aubrey and H. Kyle) in  --  Journal of Inter-American Studies and World Affairs -- .

1972.  -- Structure and Process in Latin America: Studies in Patronage, Clientage, and Power Systems --  (ed. with Sidney M. Greenfield).

1967. "Role Models of Stratification, Political Ideaology, and Socio-Cultural Systems" in  -- Sociological Review Monographs --  no. 12 (University of Leeds).

1965. "The Euro-American Ranching Complex" in  -- Man, Culture, and Animals: The Role of Animals in Human Adjustments --  (eds. Leeds and Vayda)

1965. "Hacienda and Plantation in Yucatan: A Historical and Ecological Consideration of the Folk-Urban Continuum in Yucatan" in  -- American Indigena -- .

1962. "Class and Kinship in Argentina" in  -- Ethnology -- .
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The Arnold Strickon Papers document Strickon's doctoral fieldwork and other research, as well as his teaching. The papers contain field notes, correspondence, and reports; draft articles and publications; photographs from trips to Mexico and China, and lecture notes and syllabi from courses Strickon taught at the University of Wisconsin. 

Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The Wisconsin Historical Society holds the Arnold Strickon papers.