RISMLCRRISM-LANDES

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 Records of training programs for field workers in the social sciences, unpublished conference materials, and occasional professional papers of RISM Fellows are also a part of RISM Research Collections and Archives.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
RISM
Ministry of Culture and the Central Statistical Office of Trinidad and Tobago
Center for Education in Latin America

Publications
Rubin, Vera.
1962. "Culture, Politics and Race Relations." Social and Economic Studies, 11:4, University of the West Indies, Jamaica.

Zavalloni, Marisa.
1968. Adolescents' Values in a Changing Society: A Study of Trinidad Youth. The Hague and Paris: Mouton & Co.

Rubin, Vera and Marisa Zavalloni.
1969. We Wish to Be Looked Upon: A Study of the Aspirations of Youth in a Developing Society. New York: Teachers College Press.

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
RISM
World Federation on Mental Health

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
RISM
Caribbean Federation for Mental Health

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
Child Welfare, Research & Demonstration Grants Program of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

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
RISM
U. S. Peace Corps

Publications
Comitas, Lambros.
1967. "Education and Social Stratification in Contemporary Bolivia." Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, Series 11.
1968. Reprinted as "Educacion y estratificacion social en Bolivia." America Indigena.

Omran, Abdel R., William J. McEwen, and Mahfouz H. Zaki.
1967. Epidemiological Studies in Bolivia (English and Spanish editions). New York: Research Institute for the Study of Man.

McEwen, William J.
1969. Changing Rural Bolivia: A Study of the Social and Political Organization and the Potential for Development in Six Contrasting Communities. New York: Research Institute for the Study of Man.
1975. Changing Rural Society: A Study of Communities in Bolivia. New York: Oxford University Press.

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
RISM
Center for the Studies of Narcotic and Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH)

Publications
1972. Jamaica Daily Gleaner (serial)

Rubin, Vera and Lambros Comitas.
1975. Ganja in Jamaica: A Medical Anthropological Study of Chronic Marihuana Use. The Hague and Paris: Mouton & Co.
1976. Ganja in Jamaica: The Effects of Marihuana Use. Garden City, New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday.

Rubin, Vera.
1976. "Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Therapeutic Uses of Cannabis" in The Therapeutic Potential of Marihuana, Sidney Cohen and Richard C. Stillman, eds. New York and London: Plenum Medical Book Company.

Comitas, Lambros.
1976. "Cannabis and Work in Jamaica: A Refutation of the Amotivational Syndrome" in Chronic Cannabis Use, Rhea L. Dornbush, Max Fink, and Alfred M. Freedman, eds. New York: New York Academy of Sciences.

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
RISM
Agency for International Development (AID)
American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS)

Publication
Roberts, George W., and Sonja A. Sinclair.
1978. Women in Jamaica: Patterns of Reproduction and Family. New York: KTO Press.

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
RISM
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
International Research and Exchange Board (IREX)
USSR Academy of Sciences
University of California at San Francisco
University of Kentucky
University of Kansas

Publication
Rubin, Vera, ed.
1982. Proceedings of the First Joint US-USSR Symposium on Aging and Longevity. New York: International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX).

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
Elmendorf, Mary L.
1977. Nine Mayan Women: A Village Faces Change. New York: John Wiley Publishing Co.

Leavitt, Ruby, ed.
1975. "The Mayan Woman and Change" in Women Cross-Culturally: Change and Challenge, The Hague and Paris: Mouton & Co.

Previous publications
Villa Rojas, Alfonso.
1945. The Maya of East Central Quintana Roo. Washington: Carnegie Institution Publication, no. 559.
1969. "The Maya of Yucatan," in Handbook of Middle American Indians. Austin: University of Texas Press.

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)


1955 - 1957

Seminar Materials for the Research and Training Program for the Study of Man in the Tropics

Sponsor
Research and Training Program for the Study of Man in the Tropics (RTPSMT)

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:
Research Director: Vera D. Rubin (1911-1985)
Members:
Charles Wagley (1913-1991), Chair
Conrad M. Arensberg (1910-1997)
Robert A. Manners (1913-1996)
John V. Murra (1916-2006)
Elena Padilla (?-?)
Sidney Mintz (1922- )

1955-1957 Graduate Seminar (Anthropology 313)
For advanced graduate students in the social sciences, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, directed by Charles Wagley and Vera D. Rubin

1956-1957 Student Field Training
Graduate and undergraduate students from Columbia and Brandeis Universities and Vassar College participated in Field Laboratories in Barbados (Robert A. Manners), Martinique (John V. Murra), Trinidad (Vera D. Rubin), and Tobago (Lloyd Braithwaite 1919-1995).

            Student Participants
            1956
            Louis Charamonte
            Lambros Comitas*
            Sidney Greenfield*
            Michael Horowitz*
            Mariam J. Kreiselman*
            Heather Lechtman
            Herbert Lewis
            Connie Sutton*

            1957
            Morris Freilich*
            Morris Goodman
            Ira Greiff
            Morton Klass*
            Sylvia Knopp
            Amy Milkowitz
            Arnold Strickon
            Lucie Wood.

(*indicates student remained in the field to carry out research for doctoral dissertation)

1956 – Program for Independent Research
            1956
            Beryl L. Bailey – Study of Jamaican Creole
            John L. Comhaire – Study of culture change in Haiti
            Anne M. Chapman – Historical/Cultural study of the Jicaque and Tolupan in Honduras
            Guy Dubreuil – Study of peasant and plantation communities in Martinique
            Dorothy L. Keur and John Y. Keur – Culture/Ecological study of the Dutch windward islands
            Thomas Price – Study of conservatism and change in Columbia and Nicaragua
            Carl Withers – A study of a town on the North Coast of Cuba (“The Green Island,” professional papers)

            1957
            Ruth Blaut – Study of Cultural Determinants of soil erosion and conservation in Jamaica
            Paul Bradley – Study of Political change and social mobility in Jamaica
            Yehudi Cohen – Study of effects of bauxite mining on culture and economics and Jamaica
            Michael Moerman – Study of cultural determinants of soil erosion and conservation in Jamaica
            Ferdinand Okada – A community study of a Nepalese village
            Pierre Verin – An economic study of a peasant community in St. Lucia

1957 – First Survey of Secondary School Students’ Attitudes and Aspirations
Vera D. Rubin – Field Director, Trinidad
Ira Grieff – Graduate Student Field Training participant
Marisa Zavalloni – Research Assistant

1956-1957 Conferences and Symposia
            1956 “First Inter-American Conference on Caribbean Research”
            New York, NY, December 27-30, at the annual meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, (“AAAS”).

Participants
Preston James (Syracuse University)
Eric Williams (Historical Society of Trinidad and Tobago)
M. G. Smith (Institute of Social and Economic Research, U.C.W.I.)
R. T. Smith (Institute of Social and Economic Research, U.C.W.I.)
Elena Padilla (Columbia University)
Robert Manners (Brandeis University)
Lloyd Braithwaite (Institute of Social and Economic Research, U.C.W.I.)
Vera D. Rubin (RISM)

            1957 “Seminar on Plantation Systems of the New World/Seminario Sobre Sistemas de Plantaciones del Nuevo Mundo
            San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 17-23, In cooperation with the Pan American Union             and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

Participants
Julian H. Steward (University of Illinois)
Ida C. Greaves (Chicago, Illinois)
Edgar T. Thompson (Duke University)
Sidney W. Mintz (Yale University)
Elena Padilla (New York, N. Y.)
Gonzalo Aguirre Beltran (Universidad Veracruzana)
Richard N. Adams (Michigan State University)
James M. Blaut (Yale University)
Manuel Diegues Junior (Commissao Nacional de Politica Agraria, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
T. Lynn Smith (University of Florida)
Eric R. Wolf (University of Virginia)
Raymond T. Smith (University of California, Berkeley)
Oracy Nogueira (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Educacionais)

1957 Publications
Bibliography of Plantations. Edgar T. Thompson. 1957. Published by the Pan American Union in association with RTPSMT.

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
U.S. Peace Corps

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
RISM
Ford Foundation

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”
Established under a Ford Foundation grant, the Consortium carried out an intensive program in graduate student field training and social science research. a “Consortium Committee” operated to facilitate communication between the participating entities and to oversee administrative needs of the Training Program.

1966-1969 Participants in the “Consortium Committee”
            RISM, North American Administrative Center
                        Vera D. Rubin
                        Lambros Comitas
            Institute of Social and Economic Research (“ISER”), Caribbean Administrative Center
            North American Consortium (“NAC”)
                        Brandeis University (Robert A. Manners)
                        McGill University (Richard F. Salisbury, Frances Henry)
                        Stanford University (Bernard Siegel)*
                        Teachers College, Columbia University (Lambros Comitas)
                        Université de Montréal (Jean Benoist)
            University of the West Indies (“UWI”)
                        P. M. Sherlock (Vice-Chancellor)
                        D. O. Mills (Registrar)
                        A. Z. Preston (Bursar)
                        Roy Augier
                        Lloyd Braithwaite
                        George W. Roberts
                        Raymond T. Smith
                        D. B. Stuart
                        Neville A. T. Hall
                        John Stuart McDonald
                        S. R. R. Allsopp
                        Pat Anderson
                        Robin W. Mackenzie
                        Mervyne Alleyne
            Ford Foundation
                        Roy Carlsen
                        Melvin J. Fox
                        John Hilliard

*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
Included graduate student research and field work in various locations, organized by NAC and UWI, as well as Summer Seminars organized by RISM and ISER, in cooperation with the Consortium.

         Brandeis University
            1966 (Trinidad)
                        Karl Reisman, Field Director
                        George Epple
                        Aaron Glazer: Voluntary Associations in Toco
                        David Jacobson: Social organization in Gandhi Village
                        Carol McClure Pastner
                        Stephen Pastner
                        Raphael Ramirez
                        Wesley Wong
            1967 (Trinidad)
                        Richard Fox, Field Director
                        Janet Benson
                        Michael Benson
                        Robert Borofsky
                        Johanna M. Lessinger: Produce vendors in the Princes town market
                        Mary Parker: East Indian family structure
                        Allen Saxe
            1968 (Antigua)
                        Karl Reisman, Field Director
                        Gregory Finnegan: The case for community: mating and mobility in Antigua
                        Maurice Glickman: Church membership and conversion in an Antiguan village
                        Jean Guilleman: A study of marriage patterns and family systems
                        Sue Makiesky: National politics in a local context
                        Bernice Ostrowsky: Patterns of marketing in Antigua

            McGill University
            1966 (Guyana)
                        Richard F. Salisbury, Field Director
                        Peter R. Dalton: Ideologies and action in a mining town
                        William Ewing
                        Romain Paquette
                        Judith Roback
                        Marilyn Silverman
            1967 (Guyana and Trinidad)
                        Frances Henry, Field Director
                        Gerald Bentley
                        Patricia Garstang
                        Epeli Hauofa
                        Maurice St. Pierre
                        Douglas W. Smith
                        Carole D. Yawney
            1968 (British Honduras)
                        Joan Miller, Field Director
                        Jocelyn Beaudet: An analysis of migrancy patterns in Belize City, British                                                 Honduras
                        Normand Bourque: Patterns of linguistic behaviour and the social meaning of                                     language choice in a multilingual community in British Honduras
                        Roy Fischer: Aspects of social organization among the urban unemployed in                                     British Honduras
                        Peta Henderson
                        Kaneh Safa-Isfahani: Situations of conflict and their symbolic expression in                                     Belizean narratives

            Université de Montréal
            1966 (French Antilles)
                        Jean Benoist, Field Director
                        Jean Archambault
                        Claude Bariteau
                        André Corbeil
                        Louise Guyon: Effect of tourism on the population of Guadeloupe
                        Adré Laplante
                        Micheline Robillard
            1967 (French Antilles)
                        Jean Benoist, Field Director
                        Jacques Aubin-Roy
                        Huguette Dagenais
                        André Laplante
                        Serge Larose
                        Georges Létourneau
                        Nicole Pariseau: La colonat partiare: Marie Galante
                        Lise Pilon
            1968 (French Antilles)
                        Jean Benoist, Field Director
                        D. Brady-Godin: Genealogical study of Gustavia, Saint Barthélemy
                        J. J. Chalifoux: Les indonesiens de la Guyane Française
                        Suzanne Graham: La réforme fonciére á la Martinique: son processus
                        Madeleine S. P. Lefevre: Créole et français dans une petite ville martiniquaise
                        Joseph Lévy: Grand Riviére: un village de pêcheurs
                        J. M. Philibert: Les émigrants Marie-Galantais en Guadeloupe

            Teachers College, Columbia University
            1967 (Dominican Republic)
                        Lambros Comitas, Field Director
                        Glenn Hendricks
                        Joseph A. Schaeffer
                        Diana Scott: The family in a changing social context; an index summary of                                     Domican Republic households
                        Edward Storey: Study of political development in Constanza
                        Judith Weiner
                        Malcolm T. Walker
            1968 (Costa Rica)
                        William Dalton, Field Director
                        Joyce Lewinger: The school as an arena for community factionalism; the primary                                     school in an ethnically mixed rural Costa Rican community
                        Jean François Saucier: Agricultural innovativeness among Costa Rican                                                 independent farmers

            Stanford University
            1966 (Tobago)
                        William Rodgers, Field Director
                        Barbara Cook: Patterns of child fosterage in a Caribbean village
                        Margaret Bartz Covert: Study of patterns of child fosterage in a Caribbean village                                     (with Barbara Cook)
                        Edward Shapiro: Study of folk medicine
                        John Young: Economics and social change in Charlotteville, Tobago

Summer Seminars
As a part of the Training Program, Seminars, attended by the field teams and their director, UWI students and faculty, visiting scholars, and government personnel, were held to provide the opportunity for exchange of information on field methods and research.

Workshop Coordinators
            D. H. Cartey (UWI)
            Steve A. De Castro (ISER)

            1966 “Workshop in Social Science Research and Field Training”
            St. Augustine Campus of the UWI, Trinidad, July 17-23
            Participants
                        Richard Allsopp: “Problems in the Study of Creole Languages”
                        Mervyn Alleyne: “Linguistics and Social Interaction in the West Indies”
                        Lloyd Braithwaite: “The Social Sciences in the Caribbean”
                        Gertrude Buscher “Caribbean Creole and Problems of Communications”
                        Daniel Crowley: “A Working Orthography for St. Lucian Creole”
                        William Demas: “The Economy of Trinidad and Tobago”
                        Jack Harewood: “Aspects of Internal Migration in Trinidad and Tobago”
                        Eugene Moore: “The Five-Year Plan 1964-1968”
                        Lennon Paul: “Community Development in Trinidad and Tobago”
                        F. B. Rampersaud: “Agricultural Development in Trinidad and Tobago”
                        R. Romain: “Problems and Bottlenecks of Education in Trinidad and Tobago”
                        M. Raymond Cipolin: “Administrative Structures in the French Antilles”
                        Karl Reisman: “Creole Linguistics”
                        Vera D. Rubin: “Why the West Indies? Why Anthropology?”

            1967 “Workshop in Social Science Research and Field Training”
            St. Augustine Campus of the UWI, Trinidad, July 24-29
            Participants
                        Joseph A. Schaeffer
                        Glynn Pigott
                        Roy Augier
                        Vera D. Rubin
                        J. D. Elder
                        Frances Henry
                        Pat Anderson
                        Mr. Hahabir
                        Mr. Douglas
                        Michael Benson
                        Rochelle S. Romalis
                        Wesley Wong
                        Marjorie Whiting

            Note: Complete list of participants and topics discussed absent from records.

            1968 “Third Caribbean Social Science Seminar”
            Ecole Normale, Pointe-á-Pitre, Guadeloupe, August 5-10

            Participants
                        Jocelyn Beaudet: “A Demographic Study of Internal Migration, Belize City”
                        Normand Bourque: “Code Switching Among English-Spanish Bilinguals,                                                 Corozal, British Honduras”
                        Gregory Finnegan: “Community Identity and Village Structure in an Antiguan Village”
                        Roy Fischer: “Unemployment and Social Groupings in Belize City”
                        Maurice Glickman: “Church Membership and Conversion in an Antiguan                                                 Village”
                        Derek Gordon: “Jamaican Popular Music”
                        Suzanne Graham: “Social Change Following Land Reform in Martinique”
                        Jean Guilleman: “Church Membership and Marital Status”
                        Peta Henderson: “Economic and Social Adjustments in a Cane Producing                                     Village Following the Expansion of Cane Production”
                        Beverly Hill: “Career Aspirations of Teacher Trainees in Trinidad”
                        Patrick Largesse: “Village History and Village Community”
                        Madeleine S.P. Lefevre: “The Social Values of Creole and French in Trinité, Martinique”
                        Joseph Lévy: “Social Organization of a Fishing Community”
                        Joyce Lewinger: “The Role of the School as Innovator in the Ethnically Mixed                                     Community in Costa Rica”
                        Robert Lightbourne: “Male Attitudes Toward Contraception in Jamaica”
                        Susan Makiesky: “Village Structure and Island Politics in an Antiguan Village”
                        Bernice Otrowsky: “The role of the Market Woman in the Internal Marketing                                     System of Antigua”
                        J.M. Philibert: “Structure of Migration from Marie-Galante to Point-á-Pitre”
                        Dorian Powell: “A Sociological Study of Trainee Nurses in a Teaching Hospital                                     in Jamaica”
                        Subhas Ramcharan: “Achievement Aspirations in Secondary Schools in Jamaica                                     and Barbados”
                        Polly Ramkissoon: “The Survival of Hindi in Trinidad”
                        Kaneh Safa-Isfahani: “Symbolism and Utopias: Belize City”
                        J. P. Saucier: “Agricultural Innovation in a Costa Rican Community”
                        Malcolm T. Walker: “Merchants and Power in a Dominican Republic Pueblo”
                        Carmen Watson: “Sociological Characteristics of an Approved School (Reformatory)”

1966-1968 Development Fund and Special Grants
Awarded to participating Consortium personnel and graduate students in support of research and the establishment of academic ties with UWI during the course of Consortium participation, and to non-participating students and scholars for the development of special projects relating to the Caribbean.

            Jean Archambault
            Timothy Asch: Ethnographic film techniques in Trinidad and Tobago
            Norman Ashcraft: Family and domestic groups in British Honduras
            Wilfred G. Cartey
            Colin Clarke: Completion of monograph on caste in Trinidad and Tobago
            David Collier: Travel to conduct research on symbolism in Haitian politics
            Huguette Dagenais
            Peter R. Dalton: Research assistantship at the University of Guyana
            Ermina Davis: Travel to Summer Seminar (1968)
            Guy Dubreuil: Travel to summer Seminar (1967)
            J. D. Elder: Preparation of manuscript on West Indian folk-music
            George Epple
            Chandra Jayawardena: East Indian migration to the Caribbean
            Clinton Jean: Demographic internship in Central Statistical Office, Trinidad and Tobago
            Serge Larose
            Neville Layne: Interracial attitudes of urban proletariat in Guyana
            Georges Létourneau
            Rudy Lombard and Keith Jones: Comparative study of carnival in Trinidad and New Orleans
            Jean Marieu
            Douglas K. Midgett: Political behavior at the village level, St. Lucia
            Nicole Pariseau
            Judith Roback
            Hyman Rodman: Family life in Trinidad
            Claudia Rogers: Social networks in West Kingston, Jamaica
            Rochelle S. Romalis
            Andrew Sanders: Amerindians in Guyana
            Marilyn Silverman: Effect of Hinduism on politics and ethnic relations in Guyana
            Raymond T. Smith: Education, social stratification, and social mobility in Guyana (with             Sara Graham and David Beckles, research assistants)
            Howard J. Sosis: Completion of doctoral dissertation on religious syncretism in Haiti
            Constance Sutton: Local-level political behavior in the West Indies
            Douglas Taylor: Arawak language
            Madeleine L. R. Tramm: Socio-economic organization of a south coast village, Jamaica
            Malcolm T. Walker
            Wesley Wong

Publications
1966
Norman Ashcraft. “Domestic Group in Mahogany, British Honduras.” In Social and Economic Studies, Sept. 15: 3, pp. 266-274.

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
Jean Archambault. Un Village de Pêcheurs (Deshaies) en Guadeloupe. Thesis. Faculty of Social Sciences, Economics and Politics, Department of Anthropology, Université de Montréal. 91 p.

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
Jacques Aubin-RoyVieux-Fort (Guadeloupe): Techniques et Coopération Dans un Village de Pêcheurs.” Report. Université de Montréal. 27 p.

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
Colin Clarke. “Racial and Cultural Integration in San Fernando.” Twenty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied anthropology, Mexico City.

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
Research and Training Program for the Study of Man in the Tropics (RTPSMT)
The American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS)
University of the West Indies (UWI)
University of Washington Press
American Ethnological Society (AES)

Publications
Rubin, Vera, ed.
1957. Caribbean Studies: A Symposium. Jamaica, BWI: University of the West Indies/Institute of Social and Economic Research (UWI. ISER)
1960. second ed. Seattle: University of Washington Press, (second and third printings 1970 and 1971).


1957

Seminar on Plantation Systems of the New World/
Seminario Sobre Sistemas de Plantaciones del Nuevo Mundo

Sponsors
Research and Training Program for the Study of Man in the Tropics (RTPSMT) at Columbia University
Pan American Union
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico

Publications
Rubin, Vera, ed.
1957. Thompson, Bibliography of Plantations. Pan American Union in coordination with RTPSMT.
1957. Hutchinson Village and Plantation Life in Northeastern Brazil. Joint publication of the American Ethnological Society (AES) and RTPSMT.
1959. Plantation Systems in the New World. Washington, D.C: Pan American Union.
1960. Sistemas de Plantaciones en el Nuevo Mundo. Washington, DC: Pan American Union.
2008. (forthcoming) Commemorative Bilingual re-publication of 1959 and 1960 publications with index.


1959

Social and Cultural Pluralism in the Caribbean

Sponsors
RISM
New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS)

Publication
Rubin, Vera, ed.
1960. Social and Cultural Pluralism in the Caribbean. New York: New York Academy of Sciences.
1978. Reprinted: Kraus Reprint.


1960

Culture, Society and Health

Sponsors
RISM
New York Academy of Sciences

Publication
Rubin, Vera, ed.
1960. Culture, Society and Health. New York: New York Academy of Sciences.


1961

Political Sociology of the British Caribbean

Sponsors
RISM
University of the West Indies/Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)

Publication
Singham, A., and L.E. Braithwaite, eds.
1962. Conference on Political Sociology in the British Caribbean. Jamaica: University of the West Indies/ Institute of Social and Economic Research.


1967

Research and Resources of Haiti

Sponsors
RISM
Ford Foundation

(The Center for Haitian Studies was organized and established at this conference)

Publications
Rubin, Vera and Richard P. Schaedel, eds.
1969. Research and Resources of Haiti. New York: Research Institute for the Study of Man
1975. The Haitian Potential: Research and Resources of Haiti. New York: Teachers College Press.


1970

Culture et Développement en Haiti

Sponsors
Center for Haitian Studies (RISM)
University of Texas, Austin
The City University of New York
University of Montréal
Ford Foundation
Social Science Research Council

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


Sponsors
RISM
Center for the Study of Narcotic and Drug Abuse (NIMH)
IXth International Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (CAES)
Smithsonian Institution, Center for Man

Publication
Rubin, Vera, ed.
1975, Cannabis and Culture. The Hague and Paris: Mouton & Co.


1976

Comparative Perspectives on Slavery in New World Plantation Societies

Sponsors
RISM
Ford Foundation
National Science Foundation
New York Academy of Sciences
Wenner Gren Foundation

Publication
Rubin, Vera and Arthur Tuden, eds.
1977. Comparative Perspectives on Slavery in New World Plantation Societies. New York: New York Academy of Sciences
1993. Second edition


1981

Sociocultural and Psychological Factors in Longevity: Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Aging and Longevity (Longevity Project)

Sponsors
RISM
USSR Academy of Sciences
University of California at San Francisco
University of Kentucky
University of Kansas
University of Texas

Publication
Rubin, Vera, ed.
1982. Proceedings of the First Joint US-USSR Symposium on Aging and Longevity. New York: International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX).


1982

Sociocultural and Psychological Factors in Longevity: Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Aging and Longevity (Longevity Project)

Sponsors
RISM
USSR Academy of Sciences
University of California at San Francisco
University of Kentucky
University of Kansas
University of Texas

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

Sponsors
Ford Foundation
RISM
City University of New York
International Development Research Centre (Canada)
National Science Foundation

Publication
McGlynn, Frank, ed.
1984. Health Care in the Caribbean and Central America: Studies in Third World Societies (Frank McGlynn, Guest Editor) Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary (paperback). Dr. McGlynn was given permission to publish the papers presented at the session on "Public Health Indices of Development."

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.