RESEARCH PROJECTS
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Knez, Eugene I. (Eugene Irving), 1916-2010
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content: Eugene Irving Knez papers
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content: undated
label: Date
content: 1909
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content: 1929-2000
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.1980-22, Series 6
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content: Archival materials
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content: Almost all of the following material pertains to Knez's research about Korea, which begins with bibliographic information and a source book of Korean anthropology. This includes notes and publications written in Hangul, with translations he received from Korean scholars, and translations and publications written by Japanese scholars, with other writings in Chinese. There are photographs in this series that date back at least to 1929 and scholarly publications on anthropological and cultural life in Korea that date back at least to 1906. Some notes are summarizations on Korean history and culture taken from writings that date back to 1481, Kim-Hae-Up-Chi (box 95), an official publication (first edition) of regional history and geography. Other materials document Japan, China, Pakistan, India, Vietnam, and East Asia in general. Researchers need to go back to previous as well as following series in order to have a complete picture of Knez's activities, research, information, and pictorial documentation on and about Korea. Folders in this series have been reboxed several times and at various times there is little provenance as to their arrangement. This makes it difficult to understand the time period when segments of the research were conducted to support Knez's material culture studies of Korea, dating back to the Korean War. All of the Korean material culture studies were carried out in the same Korean location, the Kimhae area located north of Pusan. Research covering this region includes Knez's studies of Sam Jong Dong and the Three Ministries. There is Japanese material found by Knez when he was in Korea during the 1950s, which document the Japanese Ministries of Culture and Education's study of Korean cultural, religious, and agricultural life during the Japanese colonial period in Korea. Some research notes and publications are written in Korean. There are important Japanese research notes, publications on anthropometric data, and agricultural studies written in Japanese. Important photographs, circa 1929 are documented in Japanese. Information dates back to 1481.