Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Takaki, Michiko, 1930-2014
setName: label: See more items in
content: Michiko Takaki papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3.86 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1960-2002
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2016-23, Series 9
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Series 9 is divided into the following 2 subseries based on Takaki's original separation of her materials: (9.1) Field correspondence, 1964-1977; (9.2) Professional and personal correspondence, 1960-2002.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series is comprised of correspondence to and from Takaki in relation to her fieldwork in the Philippines, her graduate studies at Columbia and Yale, and her professional work at the American Museum of Natural History and the University of Massachusetts, Boston. The series also includes professional and personal correspondence with friends, family, and other anthropologists.

Correspondents represented in this series include colleagues and friends from Takaki's graduate studies; colleagues in the field of anthropology; institutions that Takaki was affiliated with; research assistants and scholars in the Philippines; Filipino contacts and informants; and Takaki's Japanese family. The bulk of the correspondence concerns her relationship with her doctoral advisor, Harold "Hal" Conklin and his wife, Jean. 

Additional pieces of correspondence can be found in other series within the collection, most notably in Series 1: Field data and field notes. Correspondence files specifically related to Yale University and the University of Massachusetts, Boston are in to Series 10: Professional materials.