Harold K. Schneider papers
name: label: Correspondent
content: Fallers, Lloyd
label: Correspondent
content: Evans-Pritchard, Edward Evans
label: Correspondent
content: Forde, Cyril Daryll, 1902-
label: Correspondent
content: Godelier, Maurice
label: Correspondent
content: Fortes, Meyer
label: Correspondent
content: Hansen, Judith
label: Correspondent
content: Goody, Jack
label: Correspondent
content: Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978
label: Correspondent
content: Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963
label: Correspondent
content: Merriam, Alan P. (Alan Parkhurst), 1923-1980
label: Correspondent
content: Fenton, William N. (William Nelson), 1908-2005
label: Correspondent
content: Winter, Edward H.
label: Correspondent
content: Tax, Sol, 1907-1995
label: Correspondent
content: Southall, Aidan, 1920-2009
label: Creator
content: Schneider, Harold Kenneth, 1925-1987
label: Correspondent
content: Richards, Audrey
label: Correspondent
content: Peristiany, John
label: Correspondent
content: Narroll, Raoul
label: Correspondent
content: Murdock, George Peter, 1897-1985
label: Correspondent
content: Moore, Joseph G.
label: Correspondent
content: Bascom, William Russell, 1912-1981
label: Names
content: Society for Economic Anthropology (U.S.)
place: label: Place
content: Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Uriha -- Turu
label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from Carol S. Schneider in 1987 and 1994.
creator: label: Correspondent
content: Fallers, Lloyd
label: Correspondent
content: Evans-Pritchard, Edward Evans
label: Correspondent
content: Forde, Cyril Daryll, 1902-
label: Correspondent
content: Godelier, Maurice
label: Correspondent
content: Fortes, Meyer
label: Correspondent
content: Hansen, Judith
label: Correspondent
content: Goody, Jack
label: Correspondent
content: Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978
label: Correspondent
content: Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963
label: Correspondent
content: Merriam, Alan P. (Alan Parkhurst), 1923-1980
label: Correspondent
content: Fenton, William N. (William Nelson), 1908-2005
label: Correspondent
content: Winter, Edward H.
label: Correspondent
content: Tax, Sol, 1907-1995
label: Correspondent
content: Southall, Aidan, 1920-2009
label: Creator
content: Schneider, Harold Kenneth, 1925-1987
label: Correspondent
content: Richards, Audrey
label: Correspondent
content: Peristiany, John
label: Correspondent
content: Narroll, Raoul
label: Correspondent
content: Murdock, George Peter, 1897-1985
label: Correspondent
content: Moore, Joseph G.
label: Correspondent
content: Bascom, William Russell, 1912-1981
culture: label: Culture
content: Suk (African people)
label: Culture
content: Pokot
label: Culture
content: Turu
label: Culture
content: Nyaturu (African people)
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content: Harold K. Schneider papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: Harold K. Schneider was an economic anthropologist specialized in Africa. He was trained at Northwestern University (Ph.D., 1953) and taught at Lawrence University (1953-1970) and Indiana University (1970-1987). The Schneider papers comprise mainly sets of documents relating to fieldwork in East Africa. The collection includes a few original fieldnotes, complete copies of expanded typscript versions of the notes, collations of data on subject categories, lexicons and other linguistic material, indexes, maps, and a few photographs. Also among the material are translations of German sources and copies of notes based on archival material, particularly material produced in colonial district offices. A small quantity of material concerning Africa generally reflects Schneider's broad interest in Africa and African pastoral economies.
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: Harold K. Schneider was an economic anthropologist who specialized in Africa. He began his undergraduate studies at Macalester College, attended Seabury-Western Theological Seminary (1946-48), then returned to Macalester to complete his degree, majoring in sociology with a minor in biology (B.A., 1949). He received his Ph.D. in anthropology from Northwestern University (where he studied with Melville Herskovits) in 1953. Following his fieldwork among the Pokot of Kenya, Scheider accepted a position as instructor of anthropology at Lawrence University (1953-1970). He conducted fieldwork among the Turu of Tanzania in 1959-60, from which he further developed his theories in economic anthropology. He served as the president of the Central States Anthropological Society (1965); as founding president of the Society for Economic Anthropology (1982-84); and as associate editor for American Ethnologist (1980-84).  In 1970, he joined the faculty of Indiana University, where he remained until his death on May 2, 1987.

1925 -- Born in Aberdeen, South Dakota, on August 24, 1925

1946-48 -- Attends Seabury-Western Theological Seminary

1949 -- Receives his B.A. in sociology from Macalester College

1948 -- Marries Carol Snyder on September 11, 1948

1951-52 -- Receives a Fulbright grant to conduct fieldwork among the Pokot (Suk) of Kenya

1953 -- Receives his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Northwestern University

1953-70 -- Begins as an Instructor at Lawrence University

1959-60 -- Receives the National Science Foundation research grant to conduct fieldwork among the Turu of Tanzania

1961 -- Chairman of the anthropology department at Lawrence University

1965 -- President of the Central States Anthropological Society

1970 -- Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University at Bloomington

1980-84 -- Associate editor for American Ethnologist

1980-82 -- First president of the Society for Economic Anthropology

1987 -- Remains employed at Indiana University until his death on May 2.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 21 Sound tape reels
label: Extent
content: 10.3 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1919-1960
label: Date
content: bulk 1949-1960
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.1994-19
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound tape reels
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged into 6 series: 
1. Personal name file (includes correspondence); 2. Pokot Material; 3. Turu Material; 4. Other Materials (comprising draft manuscripts, conference papers, lecture notes and typescripts of Turu fieldnotes; 5. General Africa Materials; 6. Sound recordings.
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: 1957 The Subsistence Role of Cattle among the Pakot and in East Africa.   -- American Anthropologist --  59 (2): 278-300. 

1964 A Model of African Indigenous Economy and Society.   -- Comparative Studies Society and History --  7:35-55.

1966 Turu Esthetic Concepts.   -- American Anthropologist --   68(1): 156-160. 

1968  -- Economic Anthropology: Readings in Theory and Analysis -- .  Co-Edited by Edward E. LeClair Jr.  NY: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.

1968 Exchange of Cattle in Africa.   -- American Anthropologist --   70(4): 757-758. 

1970  -- The Wahi Wanyaturu: Economics in an African Society -- . Chicago: Aldine.

1973 A Comment on Gray's Review of the Wahi Wanyaturu.  -- American Anthropologist --   75(2): 611-612.

1974  -- Economic Man -- . NY: Free Press.

1974 Economic Development and Economic Change: The Case of East African Cattle.   -- Current Anthropology --  15: 259-265.

1975 Economic Development and Anthropology.   -- Annual Review of Anthropology --  3: 271-292.

1977 Prehistoric Transpacific Contact and the Theory of Culture Change.  -- American Anthropologist --    79(1): 9-25.

1979  -- Livestock and Equality in East Africa: The Economic Bases for Social Structure -- .  Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

1981  -- The Africans -- . Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

1981 Livestock as Food and Money.   -- In The Future of Pastoral Peoples -- , edited by J.G. Galaty et.al., pp. 210-223.  Ottawa: International Development Research Center. 

1981 The Pastoralist Development Problem.   -- Journal of Asian and African Studies -- . XV (1&2).
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The papers of Harold K. Schneider are primarily comprised of documents relating to his fieldwork in East Africa. One part concerns the Pokot (Suk), a pastoral people of Kenya, among whom Schnieder conducted fieldwork in 1951-1952 and about whom he wrote his dissertation. Another part concerns the Turu, a pastoral people of Tanzania, whom Schneider visited in 1959-1960. 

The collection includes original fieldnotes, complete copies of expanded typescript versions of the notes, collations of data by subject categories, lexicons and other linguistic material, indexes, maps and a few photographs. Also among the materials are translations of German documents, copies of archival items, and notes from archival research, especially in records of colonial district offices. A small quantity of material concerning Africa in general reflects Schneider's broad interests in Africa and African pastoral economies. There are also a number of sound recordings, mainly recordings of Schneider's own lectures but also including a lecture by historian George Stocking.

There is also an alphabetical file based on personal names that includes correspondence, obituaries and publications. Notable contacts include William R. Bascom, G. Boulogne, John Bucklew, Stephan Borhegyi, E.E. Evans-Pritchard, Father Delbert Ewing, Lloyd A. Fallers, George Fathauer, William N. Fenton, Daryll Forde, Meyer Fortes, H.A. Fosbrooke, Padraic Frucht, Alexander Galloway, James Gibbs, Maurice Godelier, J.R. Good, Melville J. Herskovits, Hubert H. Humphrey, Father Raymond F. Kelly, Edward E. LeClair, Jr., Alan P. Merriam, James Moody, Joseph G. Moore, Leonard Moss, Raoul Narroll, Maxine Nimitz, J. Peristiany, Nathan M. Pusey, Audry I. Richards, Chandler W. Rowe, Aidan W. Southall, Kathleen Stahl, Roy Swanson, Curtis W. Tarr, Sol Tax, and E.H. Winter. 

Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
separatedmaterial: label: Separated Materials
content: Films from this collection were transferred to the Human Studies Film Archives (Harold K. Schneider films, HSFS.1995.06).