Anthropology and a lifetime of observation
By: Elizabeth Colson ; with an introduction by Laura Nader. Interviews conducted by Suzanne Riess in 2000-2001. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Riess, Suzanne B.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2002
Subjects: University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of Anthropology -- Faculty.; University of California, Berkeley -- History.; Women anthropologists -- Interviews.; Africanists -- United States.; Forced migration -- Research.; Ethnology -- Research.; Tonga (Zambesi people) -- Relocation.
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: University history series.
Description: Family and community, Minnesota; education, University of Minnesota, Radcliffe; influence of Ruth and Wilson Wallis, others, and work with life histories, Pomo Indians, Makah Indians, Poston War Relocation Camp; to Northern Rhodesia, 1946, Max Gluckman, Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, rain shrine work; Oxford and Manchester, anthropological perspective, British social anthropology; Gwembe Tonga and forced resettlement study beginning 1956: Thayer Scudder, life in the field, research methodology, notes, diaries, censuses, continuing migration and resettlement work; teaching at Boston University, Goucher College, Brandeis University; UC Berkeley's Department of Anthropology, professor since 1964: faculty, departmental groups, 1970 report on the status of women on campus, the Budget Committee, Editorial Committee; returns to Zambia, routines in Africa, in Berkeley, colleagues, honors, recent publications. Appendices include Interview for the Society of Woman Geographers, 1993; sample field notes, 1957, 1998; "The Father as Witch," 2000; histories of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, 1977; "Overview" of anthropology, 1989.