A social anthropologist in Britain and Berkeley
By: Burton Benedict ; with introductions by William Simmons and Lesley A. Sharp. Interviews conducted by Suzanne B. 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: Benedict, Marion.; Colson, Elizabeth, 1917-; Shack, William A.; University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of Anthropology -- Faculty -- Interviews.; University of California, Berkeley. Dept of Anthropology -- History.; London School of Economics and Political Science -- Faculty.; Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.; Robert H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology.; Ethnologists -- California -- Interviews.; Ethnology -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- California.; Ethnology -- Seychelles.; Ethnology -- Mauritius.; College administrators -- California -- Berkeley -- Interviews.
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: University history series.
Description: Family in Baltimore and New York City; early interests, film, Hollywood; Air Force Altitude Training Center, WWII; Harvard Dept. of Social Relations; faculty Gregory Bateson, Florence Kluckhohn; London School of Economics, thesis, Raymond Firth; marriage to Marion Steuber, London friends and activities; Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill, 1954, ethnographic work; research in Mauritius, 1955-1957, continuing interest in family planning programs; LSE faculty, colleagues, Cambridge Conference, Royal Anthropological Institute, interest in role analysis, ethnographic films; UC Berkeley Dept. of Anthropology since 1966: faculty Elizabeth Colson, William Shack, others, innovative teaching, department chairship; research in Seychelles, 1960, 1974, Men, Women, and Money; social aspects of the move to Berkeley; UC administrative roles: Divisional Dean, Letters & Sciences, Budget Committee, Study Abroad Program, Lowie Museum of Anthropology: PPIE Exhibition, directorship; discusses worlds fair scholarshp, zoo education, Oakland Zoo, careers of daughters Barbara and Helen. Appended articles by Benedict.