Robert C. Hunt Papers

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Administrative Information
Biography
Scope and Content
Series Description
Container List


Creator: Robert C. Hunt
Title: Robert C. Hunt Papers
Quantity: 6.33 Cubic Feet
Repository: Brandeis University Libraries
Identification: MWalB00314a
Language: English

Administrative Information

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Biography

Professor Robert C. Hunt taught Anthropology at Brandeis University from 1969 until his retirement in 2002. Hunt was born May 30, 1934 in Binghamton, New York. He received a Bachelors Degree from Hamilton College, a Masters Degree from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University. Hunt taught at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle before coming to Brandeis. At Brandeis, Professor Hunt taught courses in economic anthropology, development and crosscultural study, and served as Chair of the Anthropology Department 1980-1983 and 1990 -1993. In addition, he served on many committees at Brandeis and was Faculty Representative to the Board for two terms. He was awarded the Louis Dembitz Prize for Excellence in Teaching at Brandeis for the 2001-2002 academic year. Hunt's scholarly interests include the study of economic and social structure, particularly with respect to irrigation and exchange systems. He was the editor of Personalities in Cultures: Readings in Psychological Anthropology, published in 1967, and co-editor of Property in Economic Context, published in 1998. His interest in the theory and method of measurement and comparison in Anthropology has culminated in a book, Beyond Relativism: Rethinking Comparability in Cultural Anthropology, to be published in 2007. Hunt has served in several offices for the Society for Economic Anthropology: as Vice-President from 1992 to 1993, President from 1993 to 1994, and has served on the Editorial Board since 2001.

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Scope and Content

The materials in this collection were created from 1956 to 2002, and document Professor Hunt's graduate education and professional career. Included are correspondence, notes, drafts, and papers.

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Series Description

Coursework
Inclusive dates: 1956-1963, undated
Box 1
Arrangement: Alphabetical
This series consists of notes and papers related to courses taken by Hunt at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University.
Dissertation
Inclusive dates: 1962-1966, undated
Box 1
Arrangement: Alphabetical
This series consists of materials related to Hunt's dissertation at Northwestern University, titled "A History of the British and American Anthropological Study of National Character." The series includes an original carbon as well as notes, drafts, outline, and reading list for the dissertation.
Correspondence
Inclusive dates: 1957-1975, undated
Box 1
Arrangement: Alphabetical by author
This series consists of correspondence with institutions, colleagues, family, and friends.
Fieldwork
Inclusive dates: 1959-1976, undated
Box 1
Arrangement: Alphabetical by subject
This series consists of materials related to fieldwork conducted in Oaxaca, Mexico, among the Arikara of North Dakota, and in New England and the Canadian Maritimes. Materials include correspondence, field notes and analysis.
Administrative Files
Inclusive dates: 1972-2002, undated
Boxes 2-3
Arrangement: Alphabetical by subject
This series consists of materials related to administrative matters in the Anthropology Department as well as committees on which Hunt served at Brandeis. The majority of the folders in this collection are restricted.
Professional Activities
Inclusive dates: 1985-1995, undated
Box 3
Arrangement: Alphabetical
This series consists of materials related to offices that Hunt held in the Society for Economic Anthropology. This series includes materials related to the organization of the Annual onference on Property and Economy in 1994, and the Annual Conference on Commodities in 1995.
Conferences and Talks
Inclusive dates: 1965-1990, undated
Boxes 3-4
Arrangement: Alphabetical by conference
This series consists of materials related to conferences that Hunt attended and organized. Conferences organized include the Interface Institutions in Mesoamerica conference in 1966, and the Agricultural Development Council Workshop on Methods for the Study of Irrigation Organization in 1978. Material related to the organization of the Annual Conference for the Society for Economic Anthropology are located in the Professional Activities series.
Research and Publications
Inclusive dates: 1962-1990, undated
Boxes 4-7
Arrangement: Alphabetical by subject
This series includes materials related to Hunt's publications and conference papers. The bulk of the series consists of notes and correspondence related to papers he wrote, as well as drafts and final versions of publications and papers.

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Container List

Coursework
Box 1
1 Anthropology 241, 1957
2 Anthropology C-43, undated
3 Anthropology C-43, 1955
Notes
4 Epistemology, 1960
5 Quantitative paper, undated
6 Soil Erosion, undated
Papers
7 The Analysis of Kinship Components, 1962
8 Componential Analysis of Kinship, 1961
9 Dominance and Social Groups: Chickens, undated
10 Epistemology, 1961
11 Ethnic Unit, undated
12 On Defining Kinship, 1962-1963
13 On Groups and Relationships, 1962
14 Progressive Matrix in a Comparative Test, ??
15 Some Aspects of the Phonology of a Partially Mechanized Idiolect, undated
16 Some Notes on Kinship,1962
17 Status, Role and Personality,1956-1957
18 Preliminary Exam Essays, 1962
Dissertation
Box 1
19 Chapter 2 draft, 1963
20 Chapter 7, undated
21 Corrections, undated
22 Correspondence, 1963-1965
23 Notes, 1962-1963
24 Notes on books and drafts, undated
25 Original Carbon Draft--Chapters 1-7, 1965
26 Original Carbon Draft--Chapters 1-7, 1965
27 Original Carbon Draft--Chapters 1-7, 1965
28 Original Carbon Draft--Chapters 1-7, 1965
29 Original Carbon Draft--Chapters 1-7, 1965
30 Original Carbon Draft--Chapters 1-7, 1965
31 Original Carbon Draft--Chapters 1-7, 1965
32 Outline, 1963
33 Preface, undated
34 Reading List, undated
35 References Cited, undated
36 Revision Points, 1965-1966
37 Revisions, 1965-1966
Correspondence
Box 1
38 A, 1971-1975
39 B, 1963-1971
40 Barkin, David, 1968
41 Bett, Carl, 1967
42 C, 1957-1968
43 G, 1965-1968
44 H, 1957-1970
45 J-K, 1965-1970
46 L, 1965-1966
47 M, 1964-1967
48 McPherson, Alan, 1965
49 Moran, Emilio, re: "Social Reproduction in Frontier Agroeco-Systems, 1985
50 Notes, 1965-1966
51 Nicholas, John P., ??
52 O, 1965
53 P, 1966-1967
54 R, 1965-1974
55 Restricted Correspondence, 1963-1970 [R]
56 S, 1965-1967
57 U-V, 1965-1966
58 W, 1959-1967
59 Y, 1967
Fieldwork
Box 1
Acadian
60 Correspondence, 1973-1975
61 Notes, 1973, undated
62 Notes, 1973, undated
63 Notes, 1973, undated
64 Seminars, 1973-1974
65 Student Reports [R], 1973-1976
Arikara
Box 2
66 Correspondence and Notes [R], 1959
67 Field Analysis [R], undated
68 Original Field Notes [R], 1959
69 Caddoan--Comparative, undated
70 Correspondence, 1963-1965
71 Coxcatlan--Notes, 1969
Cuicatec
72 Field Transcriptions, 1964
73 Notes, 1963, undated
74 Proposals and Correspondence, 1962-1963
Mexico
75 Preparation, 1969-1970
76 Summer Institute of Ethnohistory, 1969-1970
77 Cuicatlan, 1967
78 Maps of Puebla, Tehuacan Area and Archaeological, undated
Administrative Files
Box 2
79 Ad Hoc Committee on Year-Round Operation, 1972
80 Advisory Council [R], 1994-1995
Anthropology Department
81 Archaeology Staffing, 1990-1991
82 Colloquia, 1985-1986, 1995-1996, 1999-2000
83 Colloquia, 1985-1986, 1995-1996, 1999-2000
84 Colloquia, 1985-1986, 1995-1996, 1999-2000
85 Departmental meetings [R], 1985-1988, 1999-2001
86 Departmental meetings [R], 1985-1988, 1999-2001
87 Departmental meetings [R], 1985-1988, 1999-2001
88 Departmental meetings [R], 1985-1988, 1999-2001
89 Departmental meetings [R], 1985-1988, 1999-2001
90 Faculty interests, 1992
91 Master's program, 1992-1993
92 Brandeis 2000 [R], 1995-1996
93 Committee on Graduate Student Issues, 2000
94 Committee on Study and Research Abroad [R], 1986-1998
95 Committee on Study and Research Abroad [R], 1986-1998
96 Committee on Study and Research Abroad [R], 1986-1998
97 Committee on Study and Research Abroad [R], 1986-1998
98 Committee on Study and Research Abroad [R], 1986-1998
99 Committee on Study and Research Abroad [R], 1986-1998
100 Committee on Study and Research Abroad [R], 1986-1998
101 Committee on Study and Research Abroad [R], 1986-1998
102 Committee on Study and Research Abroad [R], 1986-1998
103 Committee on Study and Research Abroad [R], 1986-1998
104 Committee on Study and Research Abroad [R], 1986-1998
105 Committee on Study and Research Abroad [R], 1986-1998
106 Faculty Interdisciplinary Seminar for Human and Environmental Sustainability, 1999-2001
107 Faculty Interdisciplinary Seminar for Human and Environmental Sustainability, 1999-2001
108 Governance Committee [R], 1992-1993
109 Graduate Council, 1990-2002
110 Graduate Council, 1990-2002
111 Graduate Council, 1990-2002
112 Graduate Council, 1990-2002
113 Graduate Council, 1990-2002
114 Graduate Council, 1990-2002
115 Graduate Council, 1990-2002
116 Graduate Council, 1990-2002
117 Institutional Assessment Committee, 1993-1994
118 Institutional Assessment Committee, 1993-1994
119 Institutional Assessment Committee, 1993-1994
120 Institutional Assessment Committee, 1993-1994
121 Institutional Assessment Committee, 1993-1994
122 Institutional Assessment Committee--History, 1994
123 Institutional Studies Program, 1996
124 Memo on Faculty Publications, 1989-2000
125 Sachar Scholarship Committee, 1998-2002
126 Sachar Scholarship Committee, 1998-2002
127 Sachar Scholarship Committee, 1998-2002
128 Social Science Council [R], 1999-2000
129 Social Science Council [R], 1999-2000
130 Social Science Council--Self Study [R], 2000
131 Social Science Council--Self Study [R], 2000
Sustainable International Development Program
Box 3
132 General [R], 1993-1994
133 General [R], 1993-1994
134 General [R], 1993-1994
135 General [R], 1993-1994
136 General [R], 1993-1994
137 General [R], 1993-1994
138 General [R], 1993-1994
139 Self-Study [R], 1995
140 Proposal for Exchange with David Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 1999
141 University Handbook, 2000
Professional Activities
Box 3
142 Curriculum Vitae, 2006
Society for Economic Anthropology
143 Annual Meeting, 1991-1993
144 Annual Meeting, 1991-1993
145 Annual Meeting--Commodities, 1995
146 Annual Meeting--Property, 1994
147 Annual Meeting--Property, 1994
148 Board, 1985, 1992-1994
149 Board, 1985, 1992-1994
150 Correspondence, 1993-1994
151 Edited Volume, 1993
152 Elections, 1993, 1995
153 Elections, 1993, 1995
154 Joint conference with the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, 1992
155 Publications, 1992-1993
Conferences and Talks
Box 3
156 Agricultural Development Council Seminar--Correspondence, 1966-1967
157 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, 1965-1986
158 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, 1965-1986
159 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, 1965-1986
160 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, 1965-1986
161 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, 1965-1986
162 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, 1965-1986
163 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, 1965-1986
164 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, 1965-1986
165 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, 1965-1986
166 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, 1965-1986
167 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, 1965-1986
168 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, 1965-1986
169 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, 1965-1986
170 American Anthropological Association--Morelos Symposium, 1971
171 American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting, 1975
172 Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, 1976
173 Assyriological International--37th Recontre, 1990
174 Brandeis University Anthropology Department Colloquium, 1982, undated
175 Brandeis University Anthropology Department Colloquium, 1982, undated
176 Brandeis University Womens Committee--Two Green Revolutions, 1989
177 Center for International and Comparative Studies--Irrigation Conference, 1987
178 Central States Anthropological Society Meeting, 1967
179 Colorado State University, 1988
180 Columbia Ecology Seminar, 1983-1984
Box 4
181 Community Mental Health Seminar, 1968
182 Conference on Irrigation Design for Management, Asian Regional Symposium, 1987
183 Council for Agricultural Planning and Development Meeting, 1980
184 Cropping Discipline in Canal Irrigation, 1985
185 Cuicatlan and Tehuacan, 1970
186 Development Anthropology Workshop, 1986
187 Forum on Irrigation Systems Research and Applications, 1986
188 Green Revolution, 1986
189 Harvard University Colloquium, 1970
Interface Institutions in Mesoamerica Conference
190 Abstracts, 1966
191 Correspondence, 1966
192 Proceedings, 1968
193 Proceedings, 1968
194 Proceedings, 1968
195 International Conference on Irrigation System Evaluation and Water Management, 1988
196 International Congress of Americanists, 1988
197 Irrigation Bureaucracy Talk, 1986
198 Lowell State College Lecture, 1972
199 National Research Council Workshop, 1985
200 National Science Foundation--Chatauqua Short Course on Food, Energy and Society, 1980
201 Northwestern University Broker Seminar, 1965
202 Northwestern University Education Institute, 1965
203 Overseas Development Institute, 1986
204 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1987
Research Methodology for the Study of Irrigation Organization Conference
205 Organization of conference, 1978
206 Organization of conference, 1978
207 Organization of conference, 1978
208 "The Comparative Method and the Study of Irrigation Social Organization," 1978
209 Rhode Island College debate--Should Anthropologists be Agents of Change?, 1973
210 Rhode Island Junior College Colloquium, 1973
211 School of American Research--Advanced Seminar on the Anthropology of Irrigation, 1988
212 Social Science Research on Latin America: The Uses of Quantitative Data, 1971
213 Society for Economic Anthropology--Assets in Exchange, 1988
214 Soviet-USA Conference at the Peabody Museum, Harvard University, 1981
215 Stonehill College Lecture, 1972
216 Sumerian Agriculture Group, 1987
217 University of Illinois at Chicago Circle--Measurement, 1982
218 University of Pennsylvania Colloquium, 1981
219 Wageningen Agricultural University, 1989
220 Wenner-Gren Supper Conference, 1970
221 Wenner-Gren Symposium on Kinship and Culture, 1966
Research and Publications
Box 4
222 Abstract of Agnew and Hsu's Introducing Change in a Mental Hospital, 1962
223 Agentes Culturales Mestizos: Estabilidad y Cambio en Oaxaca, 1968
224 Apples and Oranges--Notes, 1983, 1988
225 Apples and Oranges--Notes, 1983, 1988
226 Apples and Oranges--Notes, 1983, 1988
227 Assets, 1992
228 Beltran, Aguirre--Notes on Regiones de Refugio, undated
229 Brokers, undated
230 Bundles of Assets in Exchanges, 1990
231 Caciques Predicament, undated
232 Canal Irrigation and Local Social Organization, 1974-1975
233 Canal Irrigation in Egypt, 1985
234 Cancian--Notes on Change and Uncertainty, 1972-1973
235 Carrasco's Residence Terminology, 1963
236 Causal Analysis Project, 1977
237 Center for Advanced Study, 1965
Box 5
238 Comparative Method and the Study of Irrigation Social Organization, 1979
239 Comparative Study of Irrigation Systems, 1982
240 Componential Analysis of Kinship, 1965
241 Contemporary Ancestor Premise, 1971-1984
242 Corn and Coffee, 1984
243 Corruption, 1988
244 Cuicatec as a Refuge Region, undated
245 Current Anthropology Comment--Structural Bases of Art, by Alvin W. Wolfe, ??
246 Domestic Group as Firm, 1970
247 Drucker--Cambio de Indumentaria, 1963
248 Economic Structure, 1968
249 Education as an Interface Institution, 1967
250 Ego Formation and Economic Development, undated
251 Empirical Error, 1987
252 Field Observations, 1971
253 Foster--Notes on Tzintzuntzan, 1967
254 Frame for the Study of Social Structure, 1962
255 From Parallel-Nominal to Patrinominal: Changing Cuicatec Personal Names, 1968
256 The Group in Human Affairs, undated
257 History of Middle American Anthropology, undated
258 Hydraulic Management in Southern Mesopotamia in Sumerian Times, 1988
259 Ideas, undated
260 In Progress, 1983
261 India, 1983
Interface Institutions
262 Notes, 1967-1969
263 Chapter 1-4, 1967, undated
264 Chapter 1-4, 1967, undated
265 Chapter 1-4, 1967, undated
266 Chapter 1-4, 1967, undated
267 Interface Institutions in the Multiple Society, 1965
268 Introduction to Refuge Regions, 1971
Irrigation
269 Ancient Societies, 1975
270 Centralization, 1975-1976
271 Charter and Control, 1983
272 Conflict, 1979
273 Cuicatec, 1967-1968
274 Cuicatec--Spores, 1990
275 Cuicatec--Spores, 1990
276 Headgate and System in Mexico, 1982
277 Ideas, 1983
278 Input, 1975-1976
279 Latin America--Notes, 1981-1982
280 Latin America--Notes, 1981-1982
281 Notes, 1973-1984
282 Notes, 1973-1984
283 Notes, 1973-1984
284 Notes, 1973-1984
285 Oaxaca, 1991
286 Origins of the State, 1975-1976
287 Philippine Communal Comparative Study, 1984
288 Projects, 1974-1981
289 Recursos hidralicos, 1976
290 Spain, 1982
291 System Definition, 1982
292 Irrigation agriculture in the Mediterranean, 1983-1985
293 Irrigation, Conflict and Politics: A Mexican Case, 1972, 1976
294 Irrigation, Conflict and Politics: A Mexican Case, 1972, 1976
Box 6
295 Irrigation, Peasants and the State: Development and Social Structure in Ceylon, 1850-1960, 1974-1976
Joint Youth Development Committee
296 Report, 1964-1966
297 Report, 1964-1966
298 Role Changes in the New Agency--Notes, undated
299 Notes and Drafts, 1964-1965
300 Notes and Drafts, 1964-1965
301 Local Social Organization of Irrigation Systems, 1976-1978
302 Local Social Organization of Irrigation Systems, 1976-1978
303 Knowing in Social Science, 1984
304 Mayordomias in San Andres, undated
305 Measurement in Anthropology, 1976-1986
306 Measurement of Community Modernization in Rural Mexico, 1967
307 Measuring Teaching, 1984
308 Mechanized Idiolect, 1961-1965
309 Modern Comparison, 1971
310 Modernization in Rural Mexico, 1967-1969
311 Neologism Study, 1960-1961
312 Network Analysis of Kinship, undated
313 New Irrigation Works, 1975
314 Notes for a Book on Role in Cuicatec, 1971
315 On defining Kinship, undated
316 Organization Control Over Water, 1989
317 Organization of Authority and Scale in Canal Irrigation Systems, 1983-1984
Personalities and Cultures
318 American Museum of Natural History, undated
319 Correspondence, 1966-1968
320 Introduction, 1964-1969
321 Notes, 1964-1969
322 Permissions, 1965-1966
323 Organization, undated
324 Potential projects, 1985-1986
325 Premises, 1969-1971
326 Principles in Interactions at the Interface, undated
327 Problem of Comparative Culture Values and the "Theory of Cultural Relativism," undated
328 Provisioning of Cities, undated
329 Quantitative Analysis, 1971-1973
330 Research Design, 1987
Reviews
331 Beltran's Regiones de Refugio, 1969
332 Drucker's Cambio de Indumentaria, 1963
333 Foster's Tzintzuntzan: Mexican Peasants in a Changing World, 1967
334 Helm's Jawa: Lost City of the Black Desert, 1984-1985
335 Schlegel's "Male Dominance and Female Autonomy," 1973
336 Singh's "Farmers' Organizations: Problems and Requirements in India," 1983
337 Thompson's The Winds of Tomorrow, 1975
338 Ullman's Sociocultural Foundations of Personality, 1966
339 Ritual as counter-entropy, 1963
340 Role of Courts in Rural Mexico, 1969
341 Science and History--Notes, 1969
342 Sem Transcript--Managers, undated
343 Size and Organization in Irrigation Systems, 1977
344 Size and Structure of Authority in Canal Irrigation Systems, 1988
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345 Systems and Social Organization, 1973-1974
346 Social Factors Relevant to Bank Irrigation Projects in Latin America, 1981
347 Tax, Sol--Collected Essays, undated
348 Territory and Residence, undated
349 Toward a Multivariate Analysis of Kinship Behavior, 1969
350 Two variants of the Father-Son Relationship in Rural Mexico, 1968
351 Units in Research, 1982-1983
352 Units of Analysis for Rural Mexican Studies, 1970-1972
353 Variables and the Equivalence Problem, 1977
Water Work: Community and Centralization in Canal Irrigation
354 Appendices, 1976-1979
355 Correspondence, 1980
356 Farmer Participation, 1984-1986
357 Research Methods, 1976-1979
358 Revisions, 1981-1984
359 Small Units, 1976
360 Way of Life: The Ashanti and Hsu's Type D, undated
361 Weed control and erosion in Mesoamerica, 1967

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