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RISM Research Collections and Archives 1943-1985 RISM Research Collections and Archives, dating from 1943 to 1985, include materials related to the 1947 Puerto Rico Project, headed by Professor Julian H. Steward (1902-1972); Research and Training Program for the Study of Man in the Tropics (RTPSMT), a program established at Columbia University under the auspices of the Department of Anthropology, 1955-1958; and the Center for Haitian Studies, 1967-1970, which was transferred from RISM to the University of Montreal under the direction of Dr. Emerson Douyon. The materials also document basic research projects in collaboration with scholars and institutions in and outside of the United States and abroad. Records of training programs for field workers in the social sciences, unpublished conference materials, and occasional professional papers of RISM Fellows are also a part of RISM Research Collections and Archives. In some cases, there are related photographic, audio, video, and film materials. Human Subject Data and Confidential Materials are included and such materials will be subject to restrictions managed by the NYU archivist. For information regarding these materials please contact NYU Archivist Nancy Cricco (nancy.cricco@nyu.edu, telephone 212-995-4070).
RESEARCH COLLECTIONS (1943 - 1985) 1943-1950 Puerto Rico Project The Puerto Rico Project represents the pioneering work of Professor Julian H. Steward. Sponsors of the project included the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, the government of Puerto Rico, and the Rockefeller Foundation. The collection contains material in English and Spanish, which includes correspondence, conference papers, minutes, oral interviews, diary entries, fieldwork reports, draft manuscript papers, clippings, print material, miscellaneous papers, a photo contact sheet, and children's drawings. Maps and oversized materials are also included. 1957 - 1976 The Study of the Aspirations of Youth in a Developing Society (The Trinidad Study) Sponsors Publications Zavalloni, Marisa. Rubin, Vera and Marisa Zavalloni. The Trinidad Study archives are from parallel studies, conducted in 1957 (First Survey of Secondary School Students' Attitudes and Aspirations) and 1961 in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture and the Central Statistical Office of Trinidad and Tobago and the Center for Education in Latin America. More than 1,000 secondary school students from 30 schools in Trinidad and Tobago were involved in the study. The archives contain questionnaires, student responses, surveys, code books, and sundry papers. [Human Subject Data] 1975 - 1980 Medical Students Survey Sponsors Medical Students Survey, a cross-cultural study conducted in the 1960s, examined medical students' attitudes. The materials include correspondence, questionnaires, and responses. [Human Subject Data] Caribbean Mental Health Census Sponsors Caribbean Mental Health Census documents RISM's collaborative work with the Caribbean Federation for Mental Health (CFMH). The collection includes census enumeration, questionnaires and surveys and data analysis. [Human Subject Data] 1959-1966 Study of Adoptions of Greek Children by American Foster Parents Sponsors An evaluation of adoptive home life and care based on a study of approximately 500 Greek children in American foster homes. The collection includes correspondence, questionnaires, surveys and data analysis. [Human Subject Data] 1964-1968 Peace Corps-Studyman Bolivia. U. S. Peace Corps Sponsors Publications Omran, Abdel R., William J. McEwen, and Mahfouz H. Zaki. McEwen, William J. The materials document RISM's study while under contract with the U. S. Peace Corps. A medical-anthropological program, it was conducted in five ecologically different rural communities in Bolivia. The documentation contains diverse materials which have been completely inventoried, including biographical index cards, laboratory processing records, blood type cards with blood samples, tuberculin surveys, household structure diagrams, social surveys, attitude and health questionnaires, community census records, community study outlines and indexed field note cards, computer generated charts of census and distributions, epidemiological reports and studies, ethnographic reports, field notes, microfiche, microfilm, photographic material, correspondence with field workers and papers associated with the publications, Changing Rural Bolivia and Epidemiological Studies in Bolivia. Materials appended to this collection include data printouts, accounting material, video (VHS) tapes, books, audio recordings, and exhibition material. [Human Subject Data] 1970-1981 Study of Chronic Marihuana Users [in Jamaica] (The Ganja Project) Sponsors Publications Rubin, Vera and Lambros Comitas. Rubin, Vera. Comitas, Lambros. The Ganja Project materials relate to a RISM study commissioned by the Center for the Studies of Narcotic and Drug Abuse of the National Institute of Mental Health on the chronic use of cannabis in Jamaica. Project materials include correspondence, CVs, regional background studies for seven Jamaican communities, questionnaires and response data, manuscripts, reports, publication and publicity materials, book reviews and clippings from a report issued in March 1972 and serialized in the Jamaica Daily Gleaner. [Human Subject Data] 1973-1977 Cultural Factors in Population Programs (Population Studies) Sponsors Publication The Population Studies materials contain questionnaires, surveys, reports, and photographs related to cultural factors in population. These materials include several small collections documenting international and cross-cultural studies of six Technical Support Projects staffed by host scholars of national institutes and universities in: Colombia: Demographic Pressure and Land Tenure within Indian and Peasant Communities in the Highland Cauca Jamaica: Sociocultural Factors in Fertility Korea: Social, Cultural, and Ecological Factors Affecting Population Processes in Korea Philippines: Sociocultural Levels of Fertility in the Philippines Sociocultural Context of Fertility Decline in a Developing City: Davao, Philippines Thailand: The Value of Children Research topics include fertility patterns, the impact of rapid population change, health services, the law in relation to children, improved educational and economic opportunities for women, and the development of community-based economic initiatives. With the exception of the Jamaica project, these papers were not published. 1973-1985 Sociocultural and Psychological Factors in Longevity: Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Aging and Longevity (Longevity Project) Sponsors Publication In 1982, a second joint United States-Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics symposium on aging and longevity in the Caucasus was held at Columbia University. The papers presented at this symposium remain unpublished. The archives of the Longevity Project document a multidisciplinary, cross-cultural study conducted by scientists from the United States and the Soviet Union aimed at understanding the aging process. The project was funded by the Ford Foundation and the National Institute on Aging and facilitated by the International Research and Exchange Board (IREX-US). Participating institutions included the USSR Academy of Sciences, the Universities of California (at San Francisco), Kentucky, Kansas, and RISM. The collection includes questionnaires, surveys, reports, and print material. A special collection of bibliographic materials was assembled in preparation of and during the Project. These materials may be appended to the collection. [Human Subject Data] 1977-1979 Behavior among Maya Women in Yucatan in Relation to Demographic Change Publications Leavitt, Ruby, ed. Previous publications The project was co-directed by Dr. Mary L. Elmendorf of RISM and Dr. Alfonso Villa Rojas of the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia in Mexico. The study of changing roles and status of women in several Mayan communities builds on long-term research previously undertaken by the co-directors, explores the impact of changing economic and educational opportunities on the role and status of women, and the influence of available new ways of life on decision making. Research focused on linkages between fertility, integrated rural development programs, and women's changing roles, and provides basic information for implementing maternal/child health, and family planning services. 1977 - 1979 Increasing Educational and Economic Options of Adolescent Females: A Study of Policy Implications for Reducing Fertility and Raising Female Status The project, designed to explore the interrelations of education and career opportunities for young women and levels of fertility was conducted by Dorian Powell and Hermione McKenzie, University of the West Indies, in collaboration with Jamaican and U.S. consultants. The study of 500 young women of comparable educational ability (based on examination results) but different levels of educational and economic opportunity includes comprehensive analysis of sociocultural background factors and differential fertility and mating patterns. TRAINING PROGRAM MATERIAL (1955 - ca. 1961) Seminar Materials for the Research and Training Program for the Study of Man in the Tropics Sponsor Materials related to an anthropological seminar series organized by Dr. Rubin and conducted at Columbia University. Documents include correspondence to lecturers, print material, and teaching papers. Advisory Committee: 1955-1957 Graduate Seminar (Anthropology 313) 1956-1957 Student Field Training 1957 (*indicates student remained in the field to carry out research for doctoral dissertation) 1956 – Program for Independent Research 1957 1957 – First Survey of Secondary School Students’ Attitudes and Aspirations 1956-1957 Conferences and Symposia
1957 “Seminar on Plantation Systems of the New World/Seminario Sobre Sistemas de Plantaciones del Nuevo Mundo”
1957 Publications Caribbean Studies: A Symposium. Edited by Vera D. Rubin. 1957. Published by the Institute of Social and Economic Research, (“ISER”), and the University College of the West Indies, (“UCWI”), in association with RTPSMT. Village and Plantation Life in Northeastern Brazil, by Harry W. Hutchinson 1957. A joint publication of the American Ethnological Society, (“AES”), and RTPSMT. circa. 1961 The Jamaica Peace Corps Training Project Sponsor The Jamaica Peace Corps materials, which document RISM's work under contract with the U.S. Peace Corps to train its first team of volunteers in Jamaica, contain evaluations from the program's staff, training pamphlets, personnel files, budgets, newspaper clippings, teachers' guides, medical screening data, certificates (blank), CVs, language guides, photographs and biographies. Films and audiocassettes of the Peace Corps graduation ceremony have been appended to the collection. May contain confidential materials related to volunteers. 1966-1969 Interuniversity Consortium for Research Training in the Caribbean Sponsors The Interuniversity Consortium for Research Training in the Caribbean was founded in early 1966. Administrated by the Research Institute for the Study of Man (RISM) in New York City, and the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica, the Consortium developed a collaborative approach to extend scientific knowledge of the Caribbean, improve the quality of Caribbean research and maintain or improve the conditions under which research was conducted. Supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation, the Consortium began sponsorship of research training programs in the summer of 1966. Twenty-six social science graduate students from Brandeis University, McGill University, University of Montreal and Stanford University participated in the field-training program during the summer of 1966. Special grants were made available to advanced students working with the University of the West Indies (UWI) in Guadeloupe, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago. The North American universities provided pre-field seminars on Caribbean studies and post-field seminars for thesis preparation. In addition, UWI conducted a summer workshop on Caribbean society for students who required more basic grounding. The Consortium was formed with several goals in mind, including interest in furthering inter-national academic collaboration and developing standards of ethics for fieldwork in the social sciences. The North American universities participating as full members of the Consortium agreed that students being sent to the Caribbean for their first fieldwork under Consortium auspices should have had graduate training in research methods and participated in a seminar on the nature of Caribbean society. The Universities organized their teaching programs so that the experiences of one group of trainees were passed on to the next group. The universities also agreed to provide supervisors of research training in proportion to the number of students trained, to participate in scholarly interchanges involving the return of findings to the host countries, to distribute these findings to other member universities and to provide fellowship opportunities for West Indian students who were studying abroad. There were also conferences held at the participating North American and Caribbean universities where research and training plans were coordinated. Note: Organizational and citation decisions in this text have been made for graphic purposes, and are not intended to mirror standard bibliographic format. Note: Names of individuals in bold print indicate participants in the Consortium, or special and development fund grantees who produced, through their involvement in the Consortium, a report, dissertation, thesis, book, or paper that is included under the “Publications” heading. 1966-1969 “Interuniversity Consortium for Training in the Caribbean” 1966-1969 Participants in the “Consortium Committee” *Each university was required to offer a full year of seminars on Caribbean Studies. At the start of the 1966-1967 academic year, Stanford University was not able to meet this requirement, and withdrew from the program. Stanford University was then replaced by Teachers College, Columbia University. 1966-1969 Training Program Brandeis University McGill University Université de Montréal Teachers College, Columbia University Stanford University Summer Seminars Workshop Coordinators 1966 “Workshop in Social Science Research and Field Training” 1967 “Workshop in Social Science Research and Field Training” Note: Complete list of participants and topics discussed absent from records. 1968 “Third Caribbean Social Science Seminar” 1966-1968 Development Fund and Special Grants Publications Jean Benoist, ed. Les Sociétés Antilaises: Études Anthropologiques. Université de Montréal, Department of Anthropology. Clinton Jean. “A Characterisation of the Employed, Unemployed and Employable Population of Trinidad and Tobago.” Port of Spain: Central Statistical Office. 1967 Wilfred G. Cartey. The West Indies: Islands in the Sun. Camden, NJ: Thomas Nelson & Sons. George Epple. Decision-Making Processes in a Trinidadian Fishing Village. Thesis. Brandeis University. 71 p. Glenn Hendricks. “The British West Indian Immigrant Group of Puerto Plata.” Report. Jean Marieu. La Canne á sucre á la Martinique. University of Bordeaux. Thése de diplome d’Etudes Supérieres de Géographie. Carroll McClure Pastner. A Sociolinguistic Study of a Rural Trinidad Community. Thesis. Brandeis University. 44 p. Stephen Pastner. Process and Value in a Trinidad Mountain Community. Thesis. Brandeis University. 37 p. Rafael Ramirez. Trinidad: The Village and the Nation. Thesis. Brandeis University. 43 p. Micheline Robillard. Enfance et Socialization Dans Une Communauté Guadeloupéne. Thesis. Université de Monreal. 234 p. Vera D. Rubin. “Deprivation and Disadvantage: Nature and Manifestations, the Non-Hispanic Caribbean.” UNESCO Conference on Deprivation and Disadvantage, Hamburg. 62 p. Richard F. Salisbury. “Isolated Mining Communities and Social Development in the Caribbean.” Seventh Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Anthropological Association, Montreal. Marilyn Silverman. Deviance and Conformity in a Caribbean Mining Town. Thesis. McGill University. Wesley Wong. The Folk Medicine of Blanchisseuse, Trinidad. Thesis. Brandeis University. 125 p. 1968 Jean Archambault. “Etude de l’Organisation Socio-Culturelle de la Communauté de Pêche de l’ile de Terre-de-aut, Saintes, Guadeloupe.” 91 p. Norman Ashcraft. A Study of the Family and Domestic Group in British Honduras. Diss. Brandeis University, 365 p. Claude Bariteau. Organisation Économique et Organisation familiale Dans Une Île Antillaise: La Désirade. Thesis. Université de Montréal. 120 p. David Beckles and Sara Graham. “The Prestige Ranking of Occupations: Problems of Method and Interpretation Suggested by a Study in Guyana.” In Social and Economic Studies, Dec. 17: pp. 367-380. Jean Benoist. “Types of Plantations in Guadeloupe and Martinique.” In Paralléles, no. 29, p. 4-13, English and French versions. Janet Benson. Urban Countryside: The External Relations of a Trinidad Land Development Project. Thesis. Brandeis University. 53 p. Michael Benson. Non-Cooperation in a Trinidad Land Settlement Project. Thesis. Brandeis University. 59 p. Gerald Bentley. “Some Preliminary Observations on the Chinese in Trinidad.” Report. McGill University. 16 p. Robert Borofsky. Illness and Healing: A Study of Obeah in Trinidad. Thesis. Brandeis University. 100 p. André Corbeil. “La Pêche au Casier.” Report. Université de Montréal. 76 p. Huguette Dagenais. “Le Systéme de Grandes Plantations á la Guadeloupe.” Report. Université de Montréal. 59 p. J. D. Elder. “The Male/Female Conflict in Calypso.” In Caribbean Quarterly, Sept. 14: 3, pp. 23-41. Epeli Hauofa. Village-Government Communication: A Case Study in Trinidad. Thesis. McGill University. 110 p. Glenn Hendricks. “Acculturation and Assimilation Processes in a Group of West Indian Negro Migrants: Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.” Report. Teachers College, Columbia University. 85 p. André Laplante. “L’univers Marie-Galantais.” Report. Université de Montréal. 42 p. Serge Larose. “Saint-Louis, Marie Galante: Un Village de Pêcheurs-Agriculteurs.” Report. Université de Montréal. 42 p. Georges Létourneau. “La Relation Homme-Sol en Milieu Traditionel. Carel-Calebassier, Marie Galante.” Report. Université de Montréal. 44 p. Romain Paquette. Lot Cultivation – Its Role in Adjustment to Tropical Urban Life. Diss. McGill University. 348 p. Maurice St. Pierre. “The Sociology of Work in a Guyanese Mining Town.” Report. McGill University. 63 p. Judith Roback. Bases of Social Differentiation in a Guyana Mining Town. Thesis. McGill University. 141 p. Rochelle S. Romalis. “New Men of Power: Rural Entrepreneurship in St. Lucia.” Sixty-seventh Annual meeting of the AAA, Seattle. 8 p. Rochelle S. Romalis. Study of Changes From Sugar to Banana Cultivation in St. Lucia. Diss. McGill University. 304 p. Allen Saxe. Study of Urban Squatters in Port-of-Spain. Thesis. Brandeis University. 47 p. Joseph A. Schaeffer. “Field Report, Dajabon, Dominican Republic.” Report. Teachers College, Columbia University. 93 p. Douglas W. Smith. Conflict and Change in the Socio-Economic Organization of Diamond Production in Guyana. Thesis. McGill University. 120 p. Malcolm T. Walker. “Social, Economic and Political Life in the Valley of Constanza, Dominican Republic; a Preliminary Report.” Report. Teachers College, Columbia University. 118 p. Judith Weiner. “The Jewish Migrant Settlement of Sosua.” Report. Teachers College, Columbia University. 74 p. Carol D. Yawney. Drinking Patterns and Alcoholism Among East Indians and Negroes in Trinidad. Thesis. McGill University. 120 p. 1969 André Corbeil. Saint-François: Village de Pêcheurs. Thesis. Université de Montréal. William Ewing. Migration and the Role of Networks. Thesis. McGill University. Patricia Garstang. A Sociometric Study of Young Children in Trinidad. Thesis. McGill University. Peta Henderson. The Context of Economic Choice in the Rural Sugar-Growing Area of British Honduras. Thesis. McGill University. André Laplante. Les Convois Marie-Galantais. Thesis. Université de Montréal. Maurice St. Pierre. Industrial Unrest in a Guyanese Mining Community. Thesis. McGill University. Lise Pilon. Etude Ethnologique de la Parenté Rituelle aux Antilles (Martinique et Marie-Galante). Thesis. Université de Montréal. CONFERENCE AND SYMPOSIUM PAPERS (1956-1984)1956 First Inter-American Conference on Caribbean Research Sponsors Publications 1957 Seminar on Plantation Systems of the New World/ Sponsors Publications 1959 Social and Cultural Pluralism in the Caribbean SponsorsRISM New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) Publication 1960 Culture, Society and Health Sponsors Publication 1961 Political Sociology of the British Caribbean Sponsors Publication 1967 Research and Resources of Haiti SponsorsRISM Ford Foundation (The Center for Haitian Studies was organized and established at this conference) Publications 1970 Culture et Développement en Haiti Sponsors This was follow-up to the above symposium and was held at the University of Montréal, Canada, May 6-9, 1970. It was at this symposium that the Center for Haitian Studies was transferred from RISM to the University of Montréal, headed by Dr. Emerson Douyon. 1973 Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Cannabis
Publication 1976 Comparative Perspectives on Slavery in New World Plantation Societies Sponsors Publication 1981 Sociocultural and Psychological Factors in Longevity: Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Aging and Longevity (Longevity Project) Sponsors Publication 1982 Sociocultural and Psychological Factors in Longevity: Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Aging and Longevity (Longevity Project) Sponsors In 1982, a second joint United States-Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics symposium on aging and longevity in the Caucasus was held at Columbia University. The papers presented at this symposium remain unpublished. 1984 New Perspectives on Caribbean Studies: Toward the 21st Century SponsorsFord Foundation RISM City University of New York International Development Research Centre (Canada) National Science Foundation Publication All other conference papers are unpublished. Audio and videotapes of all open sessions and roundtable discussions are appended to the papers and project correspondence. The audiotapes, which are complete except for one session, and videotapes of the closing session and the roundtable discussions have been digitized, transcribed, and where relevant, translated. Photographs of the closing session and reception afterwards have been digitized.
PROFESSIONAL PAPERS (1947 - 1985) 1947-1969 Carl Withers, Ph.D. (1900-1970) This collection contains professional papers, manuscripts and a collection of photographs documenting rural life in Cuba between 1947 and 1948 and again during the summers of 1949 and 1950. The collection, bequeathed to RISM by Dr. Withers, who also published under the names of James West and Robert North, consists of bilingual material, including unedited manuscript notes on Cuba, collected folk tales, children's drawings, some correspondence, a substantial number of black and white photographic prints, and some negatives. All material unpublished. 1951-1985 Vera D. Rubin, Ph.D. (1911-1985) Papers associated with the founder and first director of RISM. The collection includes correspondence, conference and symposia proceedings, print material, photographs, teaching papers, proposals, published and unpublished manuscripts, post cards, fieldwork reports and notes, lectures and speeches, and clippings. ca. 1970 - 1976 Sula Benet, Ph.D. (1903-1982) Dr. Benet, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Hunter College and senior research associate at RISM, was a colleague of Dr. Rubin and Dr. Margaret Mead for many years. Her papers include correspondence, teaching papers, longevity and aging studies conducted between 1970 and 1973. Also included are reel-to-reel tapes, genealogy charts, questionnaires, surveys and 35 mm color slides possibly used for public lectures.
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