Scope and Contents The Allen Spitzer Manuscript Collection documents the teaching and research activities of Saint Louis University's first full professor of anthropology, who was largely responsible for the development of anthropology as a separate field of study at the school. The material in Lecture Notes (1947-1963) and Syllabi and Tests (1955-1962) offer insights into the departmental history and course offerings of anthropology at SLU. The contents of Manuscripts (1941-1967), Works (1940-1966), and Notes...

Scope and Contents This material documents the Spitzers' fieldwork with the Blackfeet Nation of Montana from 1940-1955. Notable materials: Allen Spitzer asks the Viking Fund for a grant to allow him and his wife to undertake research among the Blackfeet on "taboo practices which surround the institution of marriage and the family within the tribe" in order to write a dissertation at Stanford University on Freud and Briffault's views on the nature of taboo (8-2-44). Spitzer's letter to social worker...

Scope and Contents This material documents the Spitzers' fieldwork with the Blackfeet Nation of Montana from 1956 to 1965. Jack and Edith Moyer write about the free-flowing liquor in Browning, Montana and the Blackfeet's reaction to it (2-27-56). Allen Spitzer makes field notes of his trip to Montana in June 1956, and a newspaper clipping records his visit to the Museum of the Plains Indian in Browning (6-15-56). Trafford P. Maher, S .J., remonstrates with Spitzer over the latter's "rather negative...

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Included here are maps of Browning, Montana and lists of property owners in each block, lists of eligible voters by district, and charts of the population of the Blackfeet reservation in 1941.