Photographs copied by George Peter Murdock's Strategic Index of Latin America
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 4632
name: label: Creator
content: Murdock, George Peter, 1897-1985
place: label: Place
content: Virgin Islands
label: Place
content: Venezuela
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content: British Honduras
label: Place
content: Chile
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content: Brazil
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content: British Guiana
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content: Colombia
label: Place
content: Dominican Republic
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content: Paraguay
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content: Peru
label: Place
content: Puerto Rico
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content: Suriname
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content: Leeward Islands (Federation)
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content: Mexico
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content: Nicaragua.
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content: Panama
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content: Ecuador
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content: Honduras
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content: Bolivia
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content: Argentina
topic: label: Topic
content: Industries
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content: Dwellings
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content: Cities and towns
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content: Transportation
creator: label: Creator
content: Murdock, George Peter, 1897-1985
culture: label: Culture
content: Indians of Mexico
label: Culture
content: Indians of South America
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: George Peter Murdock (1897-1985) was an anthropologist of comparative ethnology.  Educated at Yale, he received a BA in History (1919) and PhD in Sociology (1925).  He taught sociology and anthropology at the University of Maryland for two years before returning to Yale in 1928 as an assistant professor of physical anthropology. In 1931, Murdock was granted a joint appointment with Yale's newly formed anthropology department, in which he served as department chair (1938-1960) and full professor (1939-1960).  During his time at Yale, Murdock embarked on his most notable project, the Cross Cultural Survey in 1937.  Positioned within the Institute of Human Relations, the CCS was a catalog of anthropological data, indexed according to Murdock's Outline of Cultural Materials (1938) to enable quick reference of cultures and analyses of a unified theory of behavior.  During the Second World War, the Strategic Index of Latin America, an auxiliary arm of the CCS, was created to focus on Latin American cultural questions and strategic decision making.  After the war, the CCS was reorganized by a consortium of universities as the Human Relations Area Files, with Murdock at the head.  Murdock left Yale in 1960 and served as Mellon Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh until 1973.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 700 Copy prints (circa)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1942-1948
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Possibly collected in the offices of the Ethnogeographic Board at the Smithsonian Institution and transferred to the Bureau of American Ethnology.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.4632
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Copy prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs assembled circa 1942-1948, probably as part of the Strategic Index of Latin America, and relating to people and scenery in Latin America.  They depict transportation, irrigation, agriculture and industry (including rubber production), cities and villages, and archeological finds.  The prints are arranged geographically into the following locations: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, British Guiana, British Honduras, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Leeward Islands, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, and Windward Islands. The photographs were copied from published sources (originals circa 1850s-1940s) and are individually labeled with source information and original captions.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives also holds Murdock's Pacific Survey File.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Correspondence with Murdock held in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 7027, MS 4821, American Ethnological Society records, Handbook of South American Indians Records, and collections of personal papers.
label: Contained in
content: Numbered manuscripts 1850s-1980s (some earlier)