Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Kracke, Waud H.
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content: Waud H. Kracke papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2.09 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1962-2013
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2017-12, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The majority of the correspondence is arranged alphabetically by  individual correspondent or corresponding institution. Certain correspondence has been collected at the beginning of the series under the label "Assorted"; this correspondence has no readily-identifiable or -legible name attached. Kracke had organized some correspondence into topical folders labeled "Anthropology," "Dream research," "Political psychology," "Psychoanalytic anthropology," and "South America." These folders, along with one folder originally labeled "Recent," have been collected together under the label "Professional."
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Series 3 consists of professional and personal letters, postcards, and printed emails to and from Waud Kracke. It includes correspondence from Brazilian informants; graduate faculty advisors; journals and university presses; anthropology students seeking advice, bibliographic recommendations, or sponsorship for admission to the University of Illinois at Chicago; professional and alumni organizations; and friends and family of Kracke. The bulk of the material consists of correspondence with anthropological colleagues; as well as correspondence regarding Kracke's reviews of scholarly literature and his relationship with the journal The Psychoanalytic Study of Society.

Additional correspondence can be found scattered throughout the collection, attached to related material. The bulk of additional correspondence can be found in Series 6, attached to annotated and review copies of articles, book chapters, and conference papers sent to Kracke by his anthropological colleagues.