Professional development files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Garrison, Vivian, 1933-2013
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content: Vivian E. Garrison papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3.78 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1955-2008
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2017-19, Series 7
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Series 7 is arranged into 5 series: 
(7.1) President's Commission on Mental Health, 1977-1978; 
(7.2) Teaching files, 1965-1979; 
(7.3) CVs, correspondence, and assorted professional files, 1955-2008; 
(7.4) Student files, circa 1959-1972; 
(7.5) Consultations, 1969-1972, 1983-1991.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Series 7 consists of material documenting Garrison's professional commitments to anthropology and applied medical anthropology distinct from her grant-funded research and her publications. The series includes Garrison's student files at Columbia University in the 1960s and 1970s; her teaching files regarding the Columbia University class "Problems and Methods in Anthropology," which she took over from Margaret Mead in 1979; her curriculum vitae and resumes from her anthropological and pre-anthropological career; and notes and correspondence regarding various clinical and anthropological consultations she undertook in the 1980s and 1990s. Of note in the series are the correspondence, reports, and notes regarding Jimmy Carter's President's Commission on Mental Health and the Commission's four-volume report (1978) to which Garrison contributed case studies.