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Descriptive Summary
Biographical Note
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Arrangement
Restrictions
Index Terms
Administrative Information
Description of Series
Series I: Correspondence,
1980-1988
Series II: Drafts, Publication Offprints, and Lecture
Notes
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Guide to Edward Norbeck Academic papers,
1945-1985
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Norbeck, Edward,
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Edward Norbeck Academic papers
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1945-1985 |
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Abstract: |
The papers of
anthropologist Dr. Edward Norbeck, an expert in the cultures of the Pacific
Ocean area, consist of correspondence, lecture notes, article drafts dating
from his years at Rice University and at the University of California at
Berkeley. |
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Identification: |
MS 441 |
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1.75 cubic feet |
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Language: |
Materials are in English. |
Edward Norbeck was born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1915.
He received his B.A. (1948), M.A. (1949) and Ph.D. (1952) in Anthropology from
the University of Michigan. Dr. Norbeck was an assistant professor of
Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and at the University
of Utah. He became a member of the Rice University faculty in 1960 and was
Chairman of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology from 1960-1971. He was
a professor of Anthropology from 1962-80. Dr. Norbeck was Director of the
Graduate Program in Behavioral Sciences and he served as Dean of Humanities
from 1965-67. He retired in 1981 and afterward taught for five additional years
at other universities as visiting professor.
He was also active in many professional societies in various capacities
such as being president of the American Ethnological Society and Program
Director of the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. He
also acted as chair for a symposium held at Rice University in 1966 entitled
The Study of Personality: An Interdisciplinary
Appraisal.
Dr. Norbeck was an expert in the cultures of the Pacific Ocean area and
did extensive field work in Japan and Hawaii. In 1958-59, he studied postwar
economic and social changes in urban Japan, Tokyo, and in rural northeastern
Japan. In 1964 he received a National Science Foundation grant to go to Japan
to study the new social institutions which had grown up there since World War
II, with particular emphasis on that nation's 168 new religions. In 1972 he was
named a Piper Professor, an award given by the Piper Foundation of San Antonio
which honors university professors for demonstrated ability in the classroom.
He was the recipient of grants from the Ford Foundation and the Wenner-Gren
Foundation.
Dr. Norbeck published many books and articles and was an editor of the
Rice University Studies (1963-1967). He also
edited many other papers and theses.
Dr. Norbeck, then Professor Emeritus at Rice University, passed away in
August 1991.
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The papers of anthropologist Dr. Edward Norbeck consist of
correspondence, lecture notes, article drafts. The papers range in date from
1945-1985, and occupy 1.75 cubic feet.
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Arrangement |
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- Series I: Correspondence, 1980-1988
- Series II: Drafts, Publications, and Lecture Notes
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Access Restrictions
No access restrictions; this material is
open for research.
Use Restrictions
Permission to publish from the Edward Norbeck Academic Papers must be
obtained from the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice
University.
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Subjects (Persons) |
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Norbeck, Edward, 1915- -
Correspondence. |
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Subjects (Organizations) |
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Rice University -
Faculty. |
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Rice University -
Department of Anthropology. |
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Subjects |
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Anthropology. |
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Civilization -
Philosophy. |
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Anthropology -
Japan. |
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National characteristics,
Japanese. |
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Places |
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Pacific area -
Civilization. |
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Japan - Civilization.
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Japan - Social conditions -
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Japan - Social life and
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Correspondence. |
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Drafts
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Notes. |
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Syllabi. |
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Edward Norbeck Academic Papers, 1945-1985, MS 441, Woodson Research
Center, Fondren Library, Rice University
These papers were received by Woodson Research Center in November
1993.
Sorted by Lee Pecht 1993
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Series I: Correspondence,
1980-1988 |
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This series consists of correspondence between Norbeck
and persons from various universities regarding setting up a Social Science
Research Council (SSRC) conference on the general topic of health, medicine and
health policy in Japan. Other correspondence pertains to the publication of
papers/articles; some of which he wrote, others for which he acted as editor.
Drafts of some of the papers are included. Other correspondence pertains to
Humans at Play . The letters are in good condition. |
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Correspondence,
1980-81 |
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Correspondence,
1982 |
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Correspondence,
1983 |
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Correspondence,
1984 |
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Correspondence,
1985 |
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Correspondence and review,
1986-1988 |
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Humans at Play correspondence,
1983-1985 |
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Series II: Drafts, Publication Offprints, and Lecture
Notes |
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This series includes a 1979 draft of
Work and Play . There is also a folder with course notes
and syllabi mostly dealing with human play. |
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Included in the collection are offprints of articles published in
various journals. The topics range from anthropology and religion to issues
about Japan. |
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There are published lecture notes from Anthropology courses he
taught at the University of California at Berkeley. |
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Loose items include his Doctoral Dissertation, a guest register from
a reception for him in 1980; a card file of sources and a 16mm film
Japan. |
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Work and Play… draft,
1979 |
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Course notes and syllabi |
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Program -
The Study of Personality Symposium,
1966 |
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Offprints,
1945-1950's |
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The Contrary Behavior Pattern in
American Indian Ceremonialism by Verne F. Ray, reprinted from
Southwestern Journal of
Anthropology, Spring 1945 |
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Folklore of the Atayal of Formosa and
the Mountain Tribes of Luzon by Edward Norbeck,
Anthropological Papers No. 5,
Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan,
1950 |
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Westernization as Evident on the Buraku
Level by Edward Norbeck, reprinted from
Japanese Journal of Ethnology,
1951 |
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Folk Music of Japan,
introduction and notes by Edward Norbeck,
Ethnic Folkways Library,
1952 |
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Pollution and Taboo in Contemporary
Japan by Edward Norbeck, reprinted from
Southwestern Journal of
Anthropology,
Autumn 1952 |
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Age-Grading in Japan by Edward
Norbeck, reprinted from
American Anthropologist, August 1953 |
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American Indians in the Pacific
by Edward Norbeck, reprinted from
American Antiquity, July 1953 |
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Yakudoshi, A Japanese Complex of
Supernatural Beliefs by Edward Norbeck, reprinted from
Southwestern Journal of
Anthropology,
Summer 1953 |
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Trans-Pacific Similarities in Folklore:
A Research Lead by Edward Norbeck, reprinted from the
Kroeber Anthropoogical Society
Papers, 1955 |
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Informal Fictive Kinship in
Japan by Edward Norbeck and Harumi Befu, reprinted from
American Anthropologist,
February 1958 |
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Japanese Usages of Terms of
Relationship by Harumi Befu and Edward Norbeck, reprinted from
Southwestern Journal of
Anthropology,
Spring 1958 |
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Offprints,
1960's |
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Japan, chapter 2, by Edward
Norbeck and George DeVos,
Psychological Anthropology,
1961 |
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Postwar Cultural Change and Continuity
in Northeastern Japan, by Edward Norbeck, reprinted from
American Anthropologist,
April 1961 |
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Common-Interest Associations in Rural
Japan by Edward Norbeck, reprinted from
Japanese Culture,
1962 |
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The Interpretation of Data: Puberty
Rites by Edward Norbeck, Donald E. Walker and Mimi Cohen, reprinted
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American Anthropologist,
June 1962 |
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Lewis Henry Morgan and Japanese Terms of
Relationship: Profit through Error by Edward Norbeck, reprinted from
Southwestern Journal of
Anthropology,
Summer 1963 |
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African Rituals of Conflict by
Edward Norbeck, reprinted from
American Anthropologist,
December 1963 |
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Cultural Anthropology, Views of Man and
Culture by Edward Norbeck, reprinted from
Thought,
Summer 1964 |
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Chapter VI,
"Associations and Democracy"
in Japan by Edward Norbeck, reprinted from
Aspects of Social Change in Modern
Japan,
1967 |
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The American Occupation of Japan: Social
Retrospect by Edward Norbeck, from
The American Occupation of Japan: A
Retrospective View, by Grant Goodman,
1968 |
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Human Play and Its Cultural
Expression by Edward Norbeck, reprinted from
Humanitas,
Spring 1969 |
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Offprints,
1970's, n.d. |
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Man at Play by Edward Norbeck,
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Play, A Natural History Magazine Special
Supplement,
December 1971 |
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Prophecy Continues to Fail, a Japanese
Sect by Takkaaki Sanada and Edward Norbeck, from
Journal of Cross-Cultural
Psychology,
September 1975 |
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Anthropological Views of Play by
Edward Norbeck, from
American Zool.,
1974 |
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A Sanction for Authority:
Etiquette by Edward Norbeck, reprinted from
The Anthropology of Power,
1977 |
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The Biological and Cultural Significance
of Human Play: An Anthropological View by Edward Norbeck, from
Leisure Today,
October 1979 |
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The Study of Religion by Edward
Norbeck, from
The Voice of American Forum Lectures,
#16, n. d. |
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Rites of Reversal in Cross-Cultural
Perspective by Edward Norbeck,
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Published Lecture Notes,
1950's |
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Anth XB 124, Primitive Religion,
1955 |
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Anth XB 2A, Cultural Factors,
1956 |
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Published Lecture Notes,
1960 |
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Anth 1, General Anthropology -- Physical and
Biological Factors,
1960 |
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Anth 118, The General Structure and Basic Processes of
Cultural Life-A Survey,
1960 |
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Published Lecture Notes,
1965-1968 |
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Anth 140, The Nature of Culture -- Upper-division
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology,
1965 |
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Anth 158, Primitive Religion -- Comparative Survey of
Pre-Christian Religion and Magic,
1966 |
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Anth 2, Introduction to Archeology -- Prehistory and
Cultural Growth,
1967 |
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Anth 165a, Language and Culture -- Language and
Thought, Classification of Languages; Linguistic Aspects of Culture; Language,
Nation and State,
1968 |
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Doctoral Dissertation
Takashima: A Fishing Community of
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Guest Register, Reception for Edward Norbeck,
Washington, D. C. 12-5-80, |
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Card file for sources |
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16 mm film,
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