Professional Activities
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Watson, Virginia
label: Collection Creator
content: Watson, James B. (James Bennett), 1918-2009
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content: James B. Watson papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 7.08 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1944-1998
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2003-15, Series 4
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content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series contains files related to Watson's professional activities and primarily consists of conference notes, papers, presentations, and symposium documents. Included are materials for the American Anthropological Association, the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, the Pacific Sciences Conference, as well as symposiums held at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. Some of the files are related to specific symposiums Watson attended or helped to organize, the bulk of which are related to Papua New Guinea. There are numerous materials including papers and corresondence for a conference entitled Big Man-Strong Man-Culture Hero. Also included are Watson's lecture notes, and materials related to  the United Nations West Irian Development Plan. Series is arranged alphabetically.

Sound recording from the Pacific Sciences Conference are in Series 9: Sound Recordings.