University of Massachusetts, Boston
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Takaki, Michiko, 1930-2014
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content: Michiko Takaki papers
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content: Michiko Takaki papers / Series 10: Professional materials
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965-2011
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2016-23, Subseries 10.5
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The material is arranged in loose chronological order.
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content: This subseries consists of material from Michiko Takaki's professional career as a faculty member at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. It includes research and grant proposals, course materials, and letters of recommendation for students. Some grant materials present in this subseries were likely created during Takaki's brief stint at the American Museum of Natural History. Also included are Takaki's graduate school transcripts (circa 1972-1978) and curriculum vitae (1981-1991). Of particular interest is Takaki's tenure dossier (1980), which contains a summary of her professional accomplishments to that date, as well as a detailed description of the value and depth of her fieldwork. This subseries also contains inventories of Takaki's office during two moves: from the American Museum of Natural History to UMass-Boston (1973) and between offices at UMass-Boston (circa 1984). At the end of this subseries are copies of published research on the Kalinga and the Philippines by other scholars, kept and annotated by Takaki.

Notable in this subseries is an oral history of Takaki's field experience and thoughts as a Japanese student, female anthropologist, and outsider among the Kalinga ("Kalinga story," 2006-2011). The subseries also includes digital media that contains hard drive and file backups (circa 1989-1994) and digital working copies of files for an unidentified project (circa 1996-1998).

The digital media in this subseries (box 152) is restricted for preservation reasons. One folder of letters of recommendation for Takaki's students (in box 108) is likewise restricted due to privacy concerns.