Albert Clanton Spaulding papers
name: label: Creator
content: Adams, William
label: Creator
content: Spaulding, Albert C. (Albert Clanton), 1914-1990
label: Correspondent
content: Aberle, David F. (David Friend), 1918-2004
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content: Ackerman, Robert
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content: Adams, Richard N. (Richard Newbold), 1924-
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content: Aginsky, Bernard W. (Bernard Willard), 1905-
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content: Baby, Raymond S.
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content: Baerreis, David A., 1916-1989
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content: Baker, George W.
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content: Bartlett, Katherine
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content: Bascom, William
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content: Baumhoff, Martin A.
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content: Beardsley, Richard K. (Richard King), 1918-1978
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content: Beaubien, Paul L.
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content: Bell, Robert E. (Robert Eugene), 1914-2006
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content: Bennett, Wendell Clark, 1905-1953
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content: Binford, Lewis R. (Lewis Roberts), 1931-2011
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content: Black, Glenn A. (Glenn Albert), 1900-1964
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content: Boggs, Stephen Taylor
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content: Bozeman, Tandy
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content: Braidwood, Robert J. (Robert John), 1907-2003
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content: Brew, J. O. (John Otis), 1906-1988
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content: Buettner-Janusch, John, 1924-1992
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content: Byers, Douglas S., 1903-1978
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content: Campbell, John M.
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content: Carneiro, Robert
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content: Carr, John F.
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content: Champe, John L. (John Leland), 1895-
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content: Clark, J. Desmond (John Desmond), 1916-2002
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content: Coe, Joffre Lanning
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content: Collier, Donald, 1911-1995
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content: Collins, Henry B. (Henry Bascom), 1899-1987
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content: Conklin, Harold C., 1926-2016
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content: Conner, Stuart W.
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content: Coon, Carleton S. (Carleton Stevens), 1904-1981
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content: Corbett, John M.
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content: Cotter, John Lambert
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content: Cressman, Luther S., 1897-1994
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content: Culbert, T. Patrick
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content: De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004
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content: Deuel, Thorne, 1890-
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content: Dickinson, J.C.
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content: Dillingham, Beth
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content: Dockstader, Frederick J.
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content: Dole, Gertrude Evelyn, 1915-2001
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content: Ehrich, Robert W.
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content: Eiseley, Loren C., 1907-1977
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content: Erasmus, Charles
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content: Euler, Robert
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content: Evans, Clifford, Jr.
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content: Fagan, Brian
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content: Fejos, Paul, 1897-1963
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content: Fenenga, Franklin
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content: Fenton, William N. (William Nelson), 1908-2005
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content: Fitting, James E.
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content: Fitzhugh, William W., 1943-
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content: Ford, James Alfred, 1911-1968
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content: Ford, Richard I.
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content: Gabel, Creighton
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content: Giddings, Louis
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content: Greengo, Robert E.
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content: Griffin, James B. (James Bennett), 1905-1997
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content: Gunnerson, James A.
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content: Gurland, John
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content: Hamilton, Henry W.
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content: Harp, Elmer
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content: Heizer, Robert F. (Robert Fleming), 1915-1979
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content: Henry, Ardell A.
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content: Hewes, Gordon Winant, 1917-
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content: Hodson, F.R.
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content: Horne, Stephen
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content: Howard, James H., 1925-1982 (James Henri)
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content: Hruska, Robert J.
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content: Hughes, Jack T.
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content: Hull, W.C.
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content: Hurt, Wesley R.
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content: Huscher, Harold A., 1908-1992
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content: Jelinek, Arthur J. (Arthur Julius), 1928-
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content: Jennings, Jesse D. (Jesse David), 1909-1997
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content: Johnson, Frederick, 1904-1994
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content: Kaemlein, Wilma
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content: Kaplan, Bernice
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content: Kennard, Edward A. (Edward Allan), 1907-1989
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content: Kerr, Clark
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content: Kivett, Marvin F.
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content: Krieger, Alex D. (Alex Dony), 1911-1991
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content: Krogman, Wilton Marion, 1903-1987
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content: Kunstadter, Peter
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content: Lasker, Gabriel Ward
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content: Laughlin, William S.
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content: Leech, Florence
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content: Lilban, Richard W.
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content: Linton, Ralph, 1893-1953
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content: Lister, Robert H. (Robert Hill), 1915-1990
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content: Malouf, Carling I. (Carling Isaac), 1916-2007
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content: Martin, Paul S. (Paul Sidney), 1899-1974
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content: Mayer-Oakes, William J., 1923-2005
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content: McGregor, John
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content: McKern, W. C. (Will Carleton), 1892-
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content: Meggers, Betty Jane
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content: Miller, George (Omaha)
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content: Muirhead, George
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content: Neumann, Georg K. (Georg Karl), 1907-1971
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content: Newman, Marshall T. (Marshall Thornton), 1911-1994
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content: Norbeck, Edward, 1915-1991
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content: Oakley, Kenneth Page, 1911-
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content: Omwake, Henri Geiger, 1907-1967
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content: Osborne, Douglas
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content: Pilling, Arnold R.
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content: Quilter, Jeffrey, 1949-
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content: Reed, Charles A.
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content: Reed, Erik Kellerman, 1914-1990
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content: Ritchie, William A. (William Augustus), 1903-1995
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content: Roberts, Frank H. H. (Frank Harold Hanna), 1897-1966
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content: Rouse, Irving, 1913-2006
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content: Rowe, John Howland, 1918-2004
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content: Ruppé, Reynold J., 1917-1993
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content: Schumacher, Paul J. F.
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content: Schwartz, Douglas W., 1929-
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content: Sears, William H.
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content: Sebeok, Thomas A. (Thomas Albert), 1920-2001
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content: Smith, Allen H.
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content: Smith, Carlyle S. (Carlyle Shreeve), 1915-1993
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content: Smith, Hale G.
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content: Smith, Marion W.
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content: Solecki, Ralph S.
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content: Spier, Leslie, 1893-1961
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content: Spuhler, J.N.
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content: Stephenson, Robert L. (Robert Lloyd), 1919-
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content: Strong, William Duncan, 1899-1962
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content: Struever, Stuart
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content: Sturtevant, William C.
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content: Swanson, Earl H., Jr. (Earl Herbert), 1927-1975
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content: Tax, Sol, 1907-1995
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content: Taylor, Walter W., Jr.
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content: Thomas, David Hurst
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content: Tolstoy, Paul
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content: Tong, Marvin E. (Marvin Enoch), 1922-1981
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content: Ward, Lauriston
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content: Washburn, S. L. (Sherwood Larned), 1911-2000
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content: Waterman, Alan T.
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content: Watson, Patty Jo, 1932-
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content: Wauchope, Robert
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content: Webb, William S. (William Snyder), 1882-1964
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content: Wedel, Waldo R. (Waldo Rudolph), 1908-1996
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content: Wenner-Gren, Axel, 1881-1961
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content: Wheeler, Richard
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content: White, Leslie A., 1900-1975
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content: Will, George W.
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content: Williams, Stephen
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content: Wolfe, Alvin W. (Alvin William), 1928-
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content: Wood, W. Raymond
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content: Woodbury, Natalie Ferris Sampson
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content: Woodbury, Richard B. (Richard Benjamin), 1917-2009
label: Correspondent
content: Yellen, John E., 1942-
place: label: Place
content: North America
label: Place
content: South Dakota
label: Place
content: Alaska
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
creator: label: Creator
content: Adams, William
label: Creator
content: Spaulding, Albert C. (Albert Clanton), 1914-1990
abstract: label: Summary
content: The Albert Clanton Spaulding Papers consist of correspondence, field project data, manuscripts, and teaching notes documenting his work at the University of Michigan, University of California Santa Barbara, the National Science Foundation, and field work at the Arzberger Site and Agattu.
bioghist: label: Biographical note
content: Albert C. Spaulding was trained at Montana State University (B.A. in economics, 1935), the University of Michigan (M.A. in ahthropology, 1937), and Columbia University (Ph.D., 1946). In 1946-1947, he taught at the University of Kansas and was an assistant curator at the university's Museum of Anthropology. From 1947-1961, he taught at the University of Michigan and was curator of that university's Museum of Anthropology. In 1959-1961, Spaulding was first program director for the History and Philosophy of Science Program of the National Science Foundation and the NAS program director for anthropology. In 1963-1966, he was professor and chairman of the anthropology department at the University of Oregon. In 1967-1971, he became dean of the College of Letters and Science at the University of California at Santa Barbara and continued at that institution as professor of anthropology until 1983. Spaulding served the Society for Amercian Archeology as associate editor, secretary, vice president, and president. In 1964, he was vice president for Section H of American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Although Spaulding carried out several significant field projects, he is best rememberd for his theoretical and methodological concerns. In relating his first archeological field work, he declared: "My fundamental interest at the time (and now) was clarification of the basic concepts of archeology, which led me into explicit definitions of archaeological problems in terms of relationship between or among well-defined variables." Spaulding produced many articles and book reviews in which he dealt with such problems. Some of the best-known appeared in the pages of American Antiquity in 1953 and 1954 when be debated James A. Ford in general terms concerning teh most productive methods of archeology in general and the nature of archeological types and methods of defining them in particular. Because of his espousal of rigor in method, Spaulding is considered on of the main forerunners of the "new archeology" of the 1960s. For his work, he received the SAA distinguished Service Award in 1981.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4.5 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1940s-1980s
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.1997-12
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: 1. Correspondence, 1948-1982; 2. manuscript of Spaulding writings; 3. material concerning students; 4. site reports and field project data; 4. material regarding conferences and committees; 6. material related to work as National Science Foundation archeology program director; 7. student notebooks and dissertation; 8. material regarding the Arzberger site; 9. administrative material regarding the University of Michigan; 10. academic papers collected by Spaulding, teaching aids, and lecture notes; 11. Philip C. Phillips and Gordon R. Willey file; 12. James A. Ford file; 13. correspondence regarding publications; 14. miscellany; 15. photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The Albert Clanton Spaulding Papers consist of correspondence, field project data, manuscripts, and teaching notes documenting his work at the University of Michigan, University of California Santa Barbara, the National Science Foundation, and field work at the Arzberger Site and Agattu. Although it has been noted that there are significant and inexplicable lucunae in Spaulding's papers, they nevertheless touch on most phases of his professional life. There is, however, relatively little field material.

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