THE SUCCESSORS: Harry Basehart, Stanley Newman, James Spuhier & Philip Bock

Bock features several pioneering scholars behind the success of Southwestern Journal of Anthropology (SWJA), predecessor of the Journal of Anthropological Research. In the 1960s or 1970s, Harry Basehart and Stanley Newman would correct copy of the SWJA the old-fashioned way, one reading the proof an...

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Published in:Journal of anthropological research 2009-04, Vol.65 (1), p.5
Main Author: Bock, Philip K
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Basehart, Harry
History
Newman, Stanley
Professional development
Scholars
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Summary:Bock features several pioneering scholars behind the success of Southwestern Journal of Anthropology (SWJA), predecessor of the Journal of Anthropological Research. In the 1960s or 1970s, Harry Basehart and Stanley Newman would correct copy of the SWJA the old-fashioned way, one reading the proof and the other checking it against the edited manuscript, inserting instructions to the printers for placements of figures, footnotes, and bibliography. The broad education and wide research experience of these two scholars enabled them to carry out their work on the Journal in as personal a way as had Leslie Spier. Newman, a student of Edward Sapir who followed him from Chicago to Yale, had done linguistic research in California (Yokuts), Middle America (Nahuati), and the Northwest Coast (Bella Bella). On the other hand, Basehart, as a young man, worked in journalism and made his acquaintance with Africa during World War II, reputedly as a member of the OSS. His academic training at Harvard included a dissertation on Iroquois social structure, and he favored the British style of social anthropology, then dominant in many institutions.
ISSN:0091-7710
2153-3806