Lipkind (fwd)

[Koontz John E]

This, from Bob Rankin, reposted with his permission, was the forerunner of
the Lipkind comment.

John E. Koontz
http://spot.colorado.edu/~koontz

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Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 16:59:58 -0600
From: R. Rankin <rankin at ku.edu>
To: Koontz John E <John.Koontz at Colorado.EDU>, Kathleen Shea <kdshea at ku.edu>
Subject: Re: Lipkind

What the NAA says about Lipkind "post-Winnebago".

Bob

LIPKIND, WILLIAM (1904-1974), Papers

After he had studied law, history, and English
literature at Columbia University, William Lipkind
became a student of Franz Boas and Ruth F.
Benedict. In the summer of 1936, Boas sent him to
Winnebago, Nebraska, to study the Winnebago
language and review Paul Radin's work on
Winnebago.The work provided data for his doctoral
dissertation, published as Winnebago Grammar in
1945.

Lipkind's next field experience was in Brazil,
where he spent 1937-1939 with the Carajaacute.
During the same period, he investigated
neighboring peoples, including the Cayapoacute.
>>From this came his article on the Carajaacute for
the Handbook of South American Indians, Bureau of
American Ethnology Bulletin 143, volume 3, 1948,
and an article on Carajaacute cosmology in the
Journal of American Folklore in 1940.

Following a brief teaching career at Ohio State
University, Lipkind worked in Europe for the
federal government in Europe. After returning to
the United States in 1947, his activity in
anthropology was largely teaching. His
publications were mostly children's literature.

Lipkind's papers are largely limited to field
material. They are, however, incomplete, for some
remains in private hands, and his Carajaacute
sound recordings (of which the archives has poor
copies) are at Indiana University. A few pieces of
correspondence relating to his article for the
Handbook of South American Indians are with Julian
H. Steward. The Winnebago material includes a
vocabulary that may be by the nineteenth-century
missionary William T. Findley.

DATES: Mostly 1936-1939

QUANTITY: ca. 1.5 linear meters (ca. 5 linear
feet)

ARRANGEMENT: (1) Carajaacute material (notebooks,
correspondence and drafts for the article in the
Handbook of South American Indians, photographs,
sound recordings, 1937-1939; (2) Cayapoacute
notebook; (3) Winnebago material (notebooks,
dictionaries); (4) Mandan dictionary, n.d.; (5)
miscellany

FINDING AID: Folder list

QUANTITY: 3 prints