Gerald Canon Hickey papers
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA ACC.2011-33
name: label: Creator
content: Hickey, Gerald Cannon, 1925-2010
label: Names
content: Rand Corporation
place: label: Place
content: Vietnam
creator: label: Creator
content: Hickey, Gerald Cannon, 1925-2010
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content: Gerald Canon Hickey papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: Gerald Canon Hickey (1925-2010) was an anthropologist whose research focused on Vietnam, especially the various tribal groups living in the Central Highlands.  He conducted research from 1956-1973 returning intermittently to the United States.

The Hickey papers include correspondence, newspaper and journal articles, slides, prints, negatives, and illustrations documenting his personal and professional activities.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1956-2010
label: Date
content: bulk 1956-1973
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2011-33
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content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Most of the collection is unprocessed
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The Hickey papers include correspondence, newspaper and journal articles, slides, prints, negatives, and illustrations documenting his personal and professional activities.

The correspondence files are severely limited (two document boxes) in volume. They include
correspondence with friends regarding their memoirs; with RAND Corporation staff regarding Vietnam; the University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology rejection of Hickey's application to become a research associate in the Department because of his involvement with RAND; Hickey's role in the Battle of Nam Dong (1964), Vietnam, where the commanding officer received the first Vietnam Congressional Medal of Honor; statements that Hickey gave before the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee; articles Hickey wrote regarding Vietnam; correspondence with Francis Ford Coppola regarding Hickey's disagreement in the way Ford depicted highlanders in the film, Apocalypse Now; traditional music of the Vietnam Highlands; interviews of Hickey; typed field notes regarding the Highland King of Fire; and where Hickey deposited parts of his collection.


Hickey's prints, more so than the slides, heavily focus on the various ethnic groups that lived in the Central Highlands, from pre-Vietnam War days to the time they were transported out of the Highlands to further south after the invasion by North Vietnam Communist forces during the Kontum battles in 1972; detailed images on Hickey's research at Khanh Hau; images of strategic hamlets; and various Viet Cong Tet battles.


The slides mostly focus on his Hickey's stays in Vietnam and include Saigon and demonstrations in the city, the various Tet offensives, the ethnic groups located in the Central Highlands, and in particular, his study of Khanh Hau which was published as Village in Vietnam.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives also holds the Gerald Cannon Hickey photographs of Montagnard peoples in South Vietnam, circa 1960-1969 (NAA.PhotoLot.73-34).  Objects that Hickey donated to the Department of Anthropology may be located under Accession 304150.