Valerie Fennell papers
name: label: Creator
content: Fennell, Valerie I.
place: label: Place
content: Southport (N.C.)
label: Place
content: Atlanta (Ga.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Gerontology
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These papers were donated to the National Anthropological Archives by Valerie Fennell in 2013.
creator: label: Creator
content: Fennell, Valerie I.
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content: Valerie Fennell papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: Valerie Fennell is an anthropologist whose work focused primarily on age and gender relations among elder communities. She has worked for Georgia State University since 1974 as a professor of anthropology and a faculty ombudsperson. The papers of Valerie Fennell chiefly document her research in Southport, North Carolina among elder communities, as well as fieldwork in Atlanta, Georgia. The papers consist of dissertation drafts, notes, and comments; field notes; interview sound recordings; photographs; and research proposals.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Valerie Fennell is an anthropologist whose work focused primarily on age and gender relations among elder communities. She has worked for Georgia State University since 1974 as a professor of anthropology and a faculty ombudsperson. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with John Honigmann serving as her advisor. Her fieldwork was conducted in North Carolina and Georgia, chiefly among elder and ethnic communities. 

Sources Consulted:
Fennell, Valerie. Curriculum Vitae, circa 2005.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3.75 Linear feet (3 boxes)
label: Extent
content: 80 Sound cassettes
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1969-2007
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2013-08
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound cassettes
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Field notes
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Manuscripts
label: Type
content: Interviews
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Process and encoded by Adam Fielding, 2014
bibliography: label: Selected Bibliography
content: 1974.  -- Hierarchical Aspects of Age Relations in Curlew Point. --  Ph.D dissertation. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

1977. International Atlanta and Ethnic Group Relations. Urban Anthropology 6(4):345-354.

1981. Friendship and Kinship in Older Women's Organizations: Curlew Point, 1973.  -- In --  Dimensions of an Anthropology of Aging. Christine L. Fry, ed. New York: Praeger Publishers, Inc.

1989. Musings on Ethnocentric Sexism in Traditional Ethnography.  -- In --  Women in the South, Proceedings of the Southern Anthropological Society. Holly Mathews, ed. Athens: University of Georgia Press.

1994. Meanings of Aging in a Southern Town.  -- In --  Many Mirrors. Nicole Saulte, ed. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.

1995. Women in Congregations.  -- In --  Religion in the Contemporary South: Diversity, Community, and Identity, Southern Anthropological Proceedings, No. 28. O. Kendall White, Jr. and Daryl white, eds. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Field notes
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Manuscripts
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The papers of Valerie Fennell chiefly document her research in Southport, North Carolina among elder communities at Curlew Point, as well as fieldwork in Atlanta, Georgia. The papers consist of dissertation drafts, notes, and comments; field notes; interview sound recordings; photographs; and research proposals. Papers are arranged at the collection level as organized by the creator.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Valerie Fennell papers, Georgia State University