Michiko Takaki papers
name: label: Creator
content: Takaki, Michiko, 1930-2014
place: label: Place
content: Philippines
topic: label: Topic
content: Economic anthropology
label: Topic
content: Ethnology -- Philippines
label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
label: Topic
content: Kalinga languages
label: Topic
content: Women anthropologists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These papers were donated to the National Anthropological Archives by R. Timothy Sieber, Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, in 2016.
creator: label: Creator
content: Takaki, Michiko, 1930-2014
culture: label: Culture
content: Kalinga (Philippine people)
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content: Michiko Takaki papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: The papers of Michiko Takaki, 1921-2011 (bulk 1960s), document her field work among the Kalinga people of the northern Philippines and her professional contributions as a faculty member at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. The papers consist primarily of economic and linguistic field data gathered between 1964 and 1968, used in the production of her doctoral dissertation ("Aspects of Exchange in a Kalinga Society, Northern Luzon," 1977) and throughout her anthropological career. The collection consists of field notes, maps, photographic prints, negatives, slides, sound recordings, recorded film, data and analysis, correspondence, working files and drafts, and publications.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Michiko "Michi" Takaki was born on September 11, 1930 to Noboru Takaki and Sumiko Kohaka in Tokyo, Japan.

As a GARIOA Scholar (Government Appropriation for Relief in Occupied Areas), Takaki earned an associate's degree from Stephen's College in Columbia, Missouri (1952) and a bachelor's degree in comparative literature from Lindenwood College in St. Charles, Missouri (1953). She also earned a second bachelor's degree from the Tokyo Women's Christian University (1954), returning to the US to earn a master's degree in journalism from Southern Illinois University (1960). In the fall of 1960, Takaki began graduate studies in anthropology under Prof. Harold C. Conklin at Columbia University. Conklin transferred to the Department of Anthropology at Yale University in 1962. Takaki followed, completing her dissertation and earning her PhD from Yale in 1977.

From 1964 to 1968, Takaki completed a 46-month period of ethnographic fieldwork in the Philippines. Her dissertation, published in 1977, was entitled "Aspects of Exchange in a Kalinga Society, Northern Luzon." After a brief stint as a curator of Pacific ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History (1970-1973), Takaki became a faculty member in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. While teaching, Takaki continued her research into the Northern Luzon region of the Philippines. Her early research into economic and subsistence activities gave way, in later years, to lingustic anthropology centered on the Kalinga language family. Takaki was granted tenure in 1980, and she remained on the UMass-Boston faculty until her retirement in 2002.

Michiko Takaki died in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 5, 2014.

Chronology

1930 September 11 -- Born in Tokyo, Japan

1951-1953 -- GARIOA Scholar (Government Appropriation for Relief in Occupied Areas)

1952 -- A.A. Stephens College

1953 -- B.A. Lindenwood College

1954 -- B.A. Tokyo Women's Christan University

1960 -- M.A. Southern Illinois University (Journalism)

1960-1962 -- Graduate coursework, Columbia University Department of Anthropology

1962-1968 -- Graduate coursework, Yale University Department of Anthropology

1964-1968 -- Field work in the Philippines

1964-1965 -- Research Fellow, International Rice Research Institute

1970-1973 -- Curator, Pacific Ethnology, Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History

1973-2002 -- Faculty, University of Massachusetts, Boston

1977 -- Ph.D. Yale University (Anthropology)

1980 November -- Awarded tenure by the University of Massachusetts, Boston

2014 December 5 -- Died in Boston, Massachusetts
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 134.16 Linear feet (167 boxes, 7 rolls, and 7 map-folders)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1921-2011
label: Date
content: bulk 1960s
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2016-23
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The Michiko Takaki papers are divided into 10 series:

Series 1: Field data and field notes, 1935-1985 (bulk 1960s)

Series 2: Maps, circa 1950-2003, undated

Series 3: Photographs, circa 1964-2006

Series 4: Sound recordings, circa 1964-1995

Series 5: Films, circa 1964-1968

Series 6: Kalinga texts, circa 1960-2006, undated

Series 7: Economic and subsistence activities research and analysis, circa 1961-1997

Series 8: Lingustic research and analysis, 1921-1993

Series 9: Correspondence, 1960-2002

Series 10: Professional materials, circa 1958-2011
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: This collection arrived at the National Anthropological Archives in boxes packed and labeled by Takaki's colleagues and former assistants. Their notations have guided the processing archivist in the labeling and categorization of the materials.

The current arrangement of this collection was imposed by the archivist, as the original order of the materials as created by Takaki was largely unclear and, where evident, deemed an impediment to researcher access. Takaki had separated out her correspondence and professional papers from the rest of her data and analytical material, and that distinction has been maintained here (see Series 9: Correspondence and Series 10: Professional materials). Takaki also stored her audiovisual material separately from her papers, so photographs, sound recordings, and film have been arranged into their own series (Series 3, 4, and 5, respectively). Series 1: Field data and field notes is distinguished from the remainder of Takaki's research and analysis due to Takaki's maintenance of the documents as a separate unit since its creation. The material in Series 1 was arranged by Takaki in the Philippines, and was transferred intact to the American Museum of Natural History, then to the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and on to her home office after her retirement. While material elsewhere in the collection (especially in Series 6, 7, and 8) is directly related to the material in Series 1, the archivist opted to maintain this singular grouping of material, and to separate out the remaining data and analysis thematically. To improve discoverability of material, the archivist has largely alphabatized the order of materials.

In 2002, Takaki had noted that her papers can thematically be divided up into the following subjects: economic data or subsistence activities, linguistic data, climatic data, field notebooks and journals, and maps. The processing archivist was unable to create a collection arrangement based on these themes due to the language barrier.

Folders with written text or Japanese characters were photocopied, then removed from the collection due to preservation concerns based on the cleanliness and acid content of the folders. The photocopies are marked and inserted in their respective locations in the collection. In select cases, the original folder or envelope remains in the collection.

Processed and encoded by Katherine Madison, 2017
bibliography: label: Selected Bibliography
content: 1984. "Regional Names in Kalinga: Certain Social Dimensions of Place Names." In  -- Naming Systems: 1980 Proceedings of The American Ethnological Society -- , edited by Elizabeth Tooker, 55-77. Washington, D.C.: American Ethnological Society.

1981. Review of  -- Anatomy of a Peasant Economy: A Rice Village in the Philippines --  by Y. Hayami et. al. and  -- Beyond Manila: Philippine Rural Problems in Perspective --  by Gelia T. Castillo.  -- The Journal of Asian Studies --  41(1): 201-203.

1977. "Aspects of Exchange in a Kalinga Society, Northern Luzon." Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University.

1969. Review of  -- Mountain Arbiters: The Changing Life of a Philippine Hill People --  by Edward P. Dozier.  -- American Anthropologist --  71: 515-518.

1960. "A case study of cross-cultural communication; some aspects of the psychological warfare as applied by the United States against Japan during the World War II." Master's thesis, Southern Illinois University.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The papers of Michiko Takaki, circa 1921-2011 (bulk 1960s), document her research into the Kalinga people of the northern Luzon region of the Philippines as both an economic and lingustic anthropologist. The collection consists of field notes; maps; photographic prints, negatives, and slides; sound recordings; recorded film; data and analysis; correspondence; working files and drafts; and publications.

The bulk of the collection consists of field-gathered data into the economics, culture, and language of the Kalinga people, created and compiled during Takaki's doctoral fieldwork in the Philippines between 1964 and 1968. This data was used in the production of her doctoral dissertation, "Aspects of Exchange in a Kalinga Society, Northern Luzon" (1977) and throughout the remainder of her career as a faculty member at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. In addition to Takaki, this material was often created or edited by her Kalinga research assistants during the period of her fieldwork or by her graduate student assistants at UMass-Boston. The material can be divided into the analytical categories related to the two main threads of Takaki's research: economic and subsistence activities, and linguistics. Economic material in the collection includes tables and tabulations of data on property, rice cultivation, and livestock use, as well as climatic data and cultural stories about exchange systems and subsistence work. Also included is gathered research into the Kalinga response to the Chico River Dam development project of the northern Luzon, an electric power generation project from the 1980s. Language material in the collection includes word lists, vocabulary slips, and morphology and phonology analysis that document the Kalinga language family of the northern Luzon. Also included are working files related to Takaki's project to translate Morice Vanoverbergh's Iloko Grammar into Kalinga.

Maps, photographic images, sound, and film contained in this collection largely document Takaki's fieldwork and research interests into Kalinga society and culture. Field-gathered data has been separated out into its own series. These materials - field notes and field data, maps, photographs, and sound and film recordings - form the first five series of the collection (Series 1-5). Research and analysis, compiled and refined from field-gathered data on the topics of culture, economics, and language, are arranged into their own three topical series (Series 6-8).

The collection also contains correspondence, as well as material documenting Takaki's professional life as a graduate student and faculty member. It includes grant applications, graduate essays, course preparation materials, professional presentations and publications, a curriculum vitae and tenure dossier from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and a copy of her master's thesis, "A Case Study of Cross-Cultural Communication: Some Aspects of the Psychological Warfare as Applied by the United States against Japan during the World War II" (1960).
separatedmaterial: label: Separated Materials
content: The eleven film reels in the collection have been transferred to the Human Studies Film Archives, accession number HSFA 2017-009, but are described in this finding aid in Series 5: Films.