Papers and correspondence relating to McConnel’s tenure as a Rockefeller Fellow at Yale University 1931-33.
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Ursula Hope McConnel
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Papers and correspondence relating to McConnel’s tenure as a Rockefeller Fellow
at Yale University 1931-33.
Collection: Ursula Hope McConnel
Series Identifier: AA 191/04
Included Items
AA 191/04/01 -
Letter To Whom it May Concern from Edmund E Way on Rockefeller Foundation letterhead, 26 September 1931. Letter of introduction.
AA 191/04/02 -
Letter to Miss McConnel from Edward Sapir, undated, no address.
AA 191/04/03 -
Title here: 'Recent research amongst some tribes of N. E. Australia'. Two copies of same paper, original and carbon, both emended by hand differently. Cover sheet says: 'To be published' Am. Journal?
AA 191/04/04 -
'Report on work during 1931-2 'Yale University'; lists courses taken by McConnel with Sapir, Wissler, Thurnwald ; p2 lists papers published, read or in preparation
AA 191/04/05 -
Letter to Edward Sapir from U H McConnel December 9 1932. States reason for requesting an extension of her Yale fellowship.
AA 191/04/06 -
Various: The economic aspect of totemism in Australia, Totemism, Totemic Complex, fourth item is a letter from George Grant MacCurdy (Peabody Museum) to McConnel of 12/02/32.
AA 191/04/07 -
'The Australian Aboriginal Woman (Illustrated)'. Paper for Yale Anthropology Club 1932.
AA 191/04/08 -
Title of main paper: 'Government amongst the Australian Aborigines'. Paper read in Dr Loram's Seminar on Acculturation with Regard to Government, January 1932.
AA 191/04/09 -
'Culture Contacts in Australia'. On cover sheet: 'I Papers read in Dr Thurnwald's Seminar on Acculturation Jan 1932 & May - 1932. For Pub. in Au Quarterly Review?'.
AA 191/04/10 -
Acculturation problems in Australia. [signed] U.H. McConnel'.
AA 191/04/11 -
Title: Wik-Munkan tribe, Cape York Peninsula, NQ' Describes Wik-Mungkan kinship and social organisation.
AA 191/04/12 -
Five Lists: 'List of Books', 'Language', 'Bibliography for 'Primitive Society', [references to totemism and American Indians] and 'Reference Books Recommended for Anthropology 128, Sapir's 'Problems in Anthropology''
AA 191/04/13 -
Four sets of notes.
AA 191/04/14 -
Two sets of Lecture notes.
AA 191/04/15 -
Nine sets of notes,
AA 191/04/16 -
Appear to be lecture notes, possibly from Sapir's seminar 'Problems in Anthropology' which McConnel attended during 1931-33. Much of it about psychology (Jung, Freud et al).
AA 191/04/17 -
'The Relative Significance of Form and Function in Symbolism. Paper for Dr Sapir's Seminar on Problems in Anthropology. Yale University, Jan. 1932'.
AA 191/04/18 -
First heading: 'The family'. A draft description of Wik-Mungkan kinship and marriage.
AA 191/04/19 -
Sapir, Edward 1916. Terms of relationship and the levirate. American Anthropologist 18:327-337
AA 191/04/20 -
Sapir, Edward 1932. Cultural anthropology and psychiatry. The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 37:229-242.
AA 191/04/21 -
Notes for a seminar presentation at Harvard University, giving an account of McConnel's field work in western Cape York Peninsula. Cards found in disorder.
AA 191/04/22 -
McConnel's cheque account statement for March 1933, plus advice slip and 15 cancelled cheques (1933) most with payee's name endorsed
AA 191/04/23 -
Title: 'Report on work in progress'. Brief account of her work 1931-33 at Yale's Institute of Human Relations.