Writings
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Cidey, Guy
label: Collection Creator
content: Breslar, Jon, 1949-2005
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content: Jon Breslar papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.54 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1870-1984
label: Date
content: bulk 1959-1984
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2007-04, Series 4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series contains Breslar's writings, writings by others, and bibliographies.  Most of the documents relate to the Comoro Islands and the Mayotte habitat project, but there are also materials on Madagascar, possibly from Breslar's original plans to conduct fieldwork in that area.  This series also contains a photocopy of Paul Ottino's writings on sociology and social anthropology. Writings by Breslar that can be found in this series are his dissertation, "An Ethnography of the Mahorais (Mayotte, Comoro Islands); a copy of his paper with Michael Lambek, "Funerals and Social Change in Mayotte"; his typescript manuscript, "An Overview of the Project to Improve the Social Habitat of Mayotte"; and L'Habitat Mahorais: Une Perspective Ethnologique.  Writings by others consist of photocopies of newspaper clippings, articles, and monographs; manuscripts; and theses.  Breslar's handwritten notes can be found interfiled with some of these materials. Most of the writings in this series are in French and English, with one manuscript in Arabic.
 
Progress reports and research proposals that Breslar sent to the Social Science Research Council can be found in Series 1. Correspondence along with his other manuscript that he coauthored with Lambek, "Death and Politics in Mayotte."  Articles that Breslar collected on languages can be found in Series 3. Languages.