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Margaret Mead papers and South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, 1838-1996

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BOX O1-O85 Papers of Colleagues, 1908-1978
Correspondence, subject files, speeches and writings, notes and notebooks, research projects, teaching files, and other papers donated by friends and colleagues to Mead.
Arranged alphabetically by name of colleague.
BOX O1-O19 Gregory Bateson, 1922-1978
BOX O1 Family Correspondence, 1922-1943
Letters received and copies of letters sent between family members.
Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.
BOX O1 Bateson, Caroline Beatrice, 1927-1941, undated
Bateson, Edward, 1936-1943, undated
Durham, Edith, 1937-1942
Durham, Frances Hermia, 1922-1939
Heitland, Margaret Bateson, 1932-1938, undated
Mead, Margaret, 1942
Other family members, 1939-1943, undated
BOX O1-O3 General Correspondence, 1926-1956
Letters received and copies of letters sent, telegrams, memoranda, and related enclosures.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX O1 1926-1937
(4 folders)
BOX O2 1937-1943
(4 folders)
BOX O3 1943-1956, undated
(2 folders)
BOX O3-O8 Subject Files, 1934-1948
Correspondence, memoranda, notes, reports, and printed matter.
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
BOX O3 American Council of Learned Societies
American Ethnological Society
American Museum of Natural History
Arctic, Desert, and Tropic Information Center
Association of New York Scientists
Atomic Energy
Automobile association
Basic books
British council
British Psychological Society
Cambridge University, Cambridge, England
Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
BOX O4 Commonwealth Fund Fellowship
Conference on Methods in Philosophy and the Sciences
Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion
Council on Intercultural Relations
Exhibits
Bali
(2 folders)
BOX O5 Democracy
"Feed-back" system
Institute for Religious Studies
International Film Foundation
Job Applicants
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Military Government Training Program
New School for Social Research, New York, N.Y.
New York Academy of Sciences
Office of Strategic Services
Projects
"Democracies and Dictators" game
(1 folder)
BOX O6 (1 folder)
Film studies
Bali
British wartime supply and food shortages
"Hans Westmar"
"Hitlerjunge Quex"
(2 folders)
"Ich for Dich: Du fur Dich"
Mexican Motion Pictures
BOX O7 Motion pictures and national character
"Das Müde Todt"
"The Road to Life"
"Seven Days Leave"
"Triumph of the Will"
National stereotype research
Pidgin language research
Proposals
Richardson, F. L. W.
Selective service
BOX O8 Social Union, Inc.
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
Student questionnaires
Wartime Regional Materials Unit
William Wyse Studentship
Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
BOX O8-O15 Speeches and Writings File, 1925-1978
Drafts of writings, correspondence, notes, printed matter, and miscellaneous material relating to articles, books, speeches, lectures, and interviews.
Arranged alphabetically by type of writing and therein chronologically. A file of miscellaneous correspondence and other material is located at the end of the series.
BOX O8 Articles and other writings
1931, "A Preliminary Account of Certain Aspects of the Social Life of the Iatmul People of the Sepik River"
1932, "Further Notes on a Snake Dance of the Baining"
1934, "Ritual Transvesticism on the Sepik River, New Guinea," International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences
1935, "Culture Contact and Schismogenesis," Man
BOX O9 1939
Nov., "Sex and the Family in One Community"
Photographic techniques
1940
Sept., "Learning to Learn," notes for unpublished article-review.
Oct., "Wolf! Wolf! Wolf!—Bang"
"Cultural Anthropology and Problems of National Efficiency"
"The Dimensions of Stimulus and Response"
1941, Dec.
"Principles of Morale Building," Journal of Sociology
"Regularities and Differences in National Character"
1942
Sept., "Some Systematic Approaches to the Study of Culture and Personality," Character and Personality, 1942, Sept.
Comment on Margaret Mead's “The Comparative Study of Culture and the Purposive Cultivation of Democratic Values”
"Morale and National Character," Civilian Morale
"Cultural Determinants of Personality," Personality and the Behavior Disorders
BOX O10 1943, Apr., "The Science of Decency," Philosophy of Science
1946
June 21, "Physical Thinking and Social Problems" Science
June, "Arts of the South Seas," Art Bulletin
1947
"Atoms, Nations, and Cultures," International House Quarterly
"Bali: The Value System of a Steady State"
1956, June, "Towards a Theory of Schizophrenia"
1962, Feb., “The Role of Somatic Change in Evolution"
1971, Feb., "The Cybernetics of 'Self': A Theory of Alcoholism" Psychiatry
1977, Apr., "Les Usages Sociaux du Corps a Bali," Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales
1978, Summer, "The Pattern Which Connects," Co-Evolution Quarterly
Undated
"Application of Anthropological Techniques to Problems of Enemy and Allies Psychology".
"The Eidos of Iatmul Culture"
"The Message of Reinforcement," Language Behavior
"Music in New Guinea"
"Pattern of an Armament Race"
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