| Title: |
Reminiscences of Paul Fejos
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| RLIN number: |
NXCP88-A117
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Columbia University. Oral History Research Office
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| Collection: |
Individual Interview List Oral History Project
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| Description: |
Childhood and education in Hungary; medical training; to United States, 1923; Rockefeller Institute, 1924-26; film industry, Hollywood and Europe during the late 1920s and early 1930s; ethnographic work for Swedish film industry, 1937-40; work with primitive tribes, Madagascar, Seychelles; shipwreck on Komodo Island; archaeology and anthropology in Peru, 1940, with Axel Wenner-Gren; Army Specialized Training Unit, Stanford University, 1943-44; Director, Wenner-Gren Foundation; use of technical aids in anthropology; Yale, 1950-51; Columbia, 1951; international symposia in Austria; ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY.
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| Extent: |
Transcript: 244 leaves, Miscellaneous papers relating to oral history
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| Restrictions: |
Access: Written permission required from Dr. Lita Fejos Osmundsen, Wenner-Gren Foundation, 14 East 71st St., New York, N.Y. 10021; certain pages closed. Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce. Contact repository for information.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1962 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Fejos, Paul, 1897-1963
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1897
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| Speaker occupation: |
Anthropologist
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| Age at speaking: |
65
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| Document date: |
1962
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| Interviewer: |
Mason, John T., 1909-
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| Locations discussed: |
Peru; South America
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Anthropologists; Anthropology; Archaeology; Motion picture producers and directors; Oral history; Peru; South America
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Ethnology--Field work; Fejos, Paul, 1897-1963; Motion pictures in ethnology; Peru--Antiquities; Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research; Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research; Wenner-Gren, Axel
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0018993-14436
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