Research and project files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Carpenter, Edmund, 1922-2011
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content: Edmund Snow Carpenter papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 14.26 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1940-2011
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2017-27, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Series 2 is divided into the following 10 sub-series:
2.1 "Atlas of Siberia," circa 2003; 
2.2 "Eskimo Mapping," 1987-2002, undated; 
2.3 Memoir, 1947, 1992-2007, undated; 
2.4 Robert Flaherty, 1958-2009; 
2.5 George Heye and the Museum of the American Indian, 1978, 1990-2006; 
2.6 Marshall McLuhan, 1950-1973, 1981-1988, 2000; 
2.7 Museum exhibitions, circa 1974-2011; 
2.8 Norse penny 1979, circa 2001-circa 2003; 
2.9 Carl Schuster, 1940-1963, 1986-2000 (bulk 1940-1949); 
2.10 General 1947-1958, 1970-circa 2007, undated.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Series 2 documents Carpenter's various research interests and aspects of various projects, including manuscript preparation, museum and archival research, and close collaboration with other scholars. This series is thematically related to, but distinct from, Series 1, which focuses on site-specific field research. 

Projects documented in this series include Carpenter's work promoting the English-language translation of The Historical-Ethnographic Atlas of Siberia; his topical research and unfinished manuscript on the subject of Inuit and indigenous Arctic conceptions of geography and space; an incomplete memoir biographizing the anthropologists and other individuals who influenced his work; his collaborations with media theorist Marshall McLuhan, including drafts of McLuhan's seminal book, Understanding Media; his reflections on the Museum of the American Indian in New York City and its founder, George Heye; the proposals and completion of multiple museum exhibits in both Europe and the United States on the topics of art history and tribal art; his research into the debatable provenance of the "Norse Penny," a Norwegian artifact uncovered at a Native American archaeological site in Maine; as well as general and unidentified research files. The series also documents Carpenter's research and eventual publication of ethnographic and art historical material accumulated by the scholars Robert Flaherty (working on Inuit art and archaeology) and Carl Schuster (working on tribal art and traditional symbolism).

Material types present in this series include articles, reprints, and newspaper clippings; brochures and guides; correspondence; drafts and fragments of drafts; inventories; manuscripts; maps; memoranda and meeting minutes; notes; photographs; proposals; reports; and sound recordings. Most of these files do not contain documents or photographs created by Carpenter. Rather, they largely represent his consolidated research into specific topics, gathered from archival repositories, museums, correspondence, and published works.