Powdermaker, Hortense. (1900-1970). American anthropologist, best known for her ethnographic studies of African Americans in Indianola, Mississippi and of Hollywood.

Typed Letter to Educator Harold Rugg Signed by American Anthropologist Hortense Powdermaker, Best Known for Her Ethnographic Studies of Rural African Americans and of Hollywood.

Flushing, NY: October 24, 1950. 1950. - 566 words typed on an eleven inch high by 8-1/2 inch wide sheet of Queens College letterhead. Signed "Hortense Powdermaker " with her name and "Chairman Department of Anthropology-Sociology" typed below the signature. There is light creasing to the top & bottom edges of the letter with a paperclip mark to the top edge. The recipient has heavily marked the letter with a phone number and date & with brackets around the body of the letter and Powdermaker's signature. Folded 3 times for mailing. Good.

Powdermaker writes that she will be be happy to speak at Rugg's All-College Luncheon Forum. "Would you like me to talk about the 'Relationship of Hollywood to American Life' or 'The Relationship of Movies to American Life'" or something else?"

Hortense Powdermaker [1900-1970] was an American anthropologist, best known for her ethnographic studies of African Americans in Indianola, Mississippi and of Hollywood. After studying at Goucher College and working as a labor organizer for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, she left the United States to study at the London School of Economics. While at LSE she worked under and was influenced by several well-known anthropologists, including Bronislaw Malinowski, who persuaded her to pursue doctoral studies. She completed her Ph.D. on "Leadership in Primitive Society" in 1928. Returning to the United States, she was given an appointment at the new Yale Institute of Public Relations. The institute's director Edward Sapir encouraged her to apply ethnographic field methods to the study of communities in her own society. As a result she conducted anthropological field work in an Indianola African American community, recording this work in "After Freedom: A Cultural Study in the Deep South" [1939]. Her other best known book, "Hollywood, the Dream Factory" [1950] was written while she was working at Queens College where she founded the departments of Anthropology and Sociology during a career spanning three decades.

One of the best-known educators during the Progressive era of education, Harold Rugg (1886-1960) was a professor of education at Teachers College of Columbia University. A Civil Engineer, he had become interested in how students learn and pursued a doctorate in education. He was responsible for producing the very first series of school textbooks from 1929 until the 1940s. Good .

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Book number: 95471

Catalogue: Anthropology

Keywords: ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOGRAPHY;TYPED LETTER TO EDUCATOR HAROLD RUGG SIGNED BY AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST HORTENSE POWDERMAKER, BEST KNOWN FOR HER ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDIES OF RURAL AFRICAN AMERICANS AND OF HOLLYWOOD; ALS; A.L.S.; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH.

HORTENSE POWDERMAKER

Copper Town: Changing Africa; the Human Situation on the Rhodesian Copperbelt

Harper & Row, Publishers. 1962. Hard Cover. Hardcover dj/ pub.1962/ Fair condition/391 pages- Describes the changes taking place in the heart of Africa. Northern Rhodesia, an area where European mining interests are steadily absorbing tribal peoples into a new pattern of industrial organization. (C21437). Good.

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Book number: 1437

Catalogue: Black History

Keywords: african, raw materials, labor camps, society, slavery, politics, negro, afro-american, black history anthropology

POWDERMAKER, Hortense

Hollywood, the dream factory: An anthropologist looks at the movie-makers

London: Secker & Warburg, 1951.- 342 p.; 4º menor (21 cm.); Tela Ed., algo desgastada en los bordes.* CINEMATOGRAFÍA Book in english (Hardcover)

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Book number: 26211

Powdermaker, Hortense

Hollywood; the Dream Factory: An Anthropologist Looks at the Movie Makers

London, Secker & Warburg, 1951. Hardcover. pp. 342. 8vo. Bound in bright sea-green cloth with silver lettering to spine. Light shelfwear, scuffing to bottom edge of boards, ownership sticker to front pastedown; very good in very good, clipped dustjacket with protective Brodart sleeve. .

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Book number: 090371

Catalogue: Theatre, Film & Media

Powdermaker, Hortense

Life In Lesu - The Strudy Of A Melanesian Society In New Ireland

Williams & Norgate, 1933, 1st edition. Cloth, P+. 352pp, b/w frontis, 12pp b/w plates, 2 folding plans, index, cloth marked & worn especially to the spine, insect damage to the cloth along the rear hinge, both endpapers removed, ink annotation to the last page of the chapter on Sexual Life, a working copy. Hardback , no dustjacket.
¶ Anthropological study based upon fieldwork carried out among the Lesu of New Ireland in Papua New Guinea. Hortense Powdermaker [ 1896 - 1970 ] American anthropologist, perhaps best known for 'Hollywood, the Dream Factory', published in 1950 & the only serious anthropological study of Hollywood.

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Book number: 60333

Keywords: anthropology, papua new guinea, ethnography, travel

Powdermaker, Hortense

Life in Lesu: The Study of a Melanesian Society in New Ireland

London, England, Williams & Norgate, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bumping to spine head and foot, slight forward cock to spine. Scarce true First Edition, being a fine ethnography of the people of New Ireland Province (now) and the island of Lesu. Foreword by Clark Wissler (student of Franz Boas) and dedicated to her friend and teacher, the Polish ethnographer, Bronislaw Malinowski. [7], 8-352 pp. and with plentiful black-and-white plates including at frontis, with maps and plans.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 359253

Catalogue: Peoples and Cultures of the Pacific

Keywords: New Ireland Papua New Guinea Melanesia insular Pacific

Hortense Powdermaker

Life in the Lesu the Study of a Melanesian Society in New Ireland

London, Williams & Norgate LTD, 1933. First edition. Cloth. An illustrated first edition of this study on a Melanesian Society by Hortense Powdermaker. A scarce first edition of the work.In the publisher's original cloth.With a foreword by Dr. Clark Wissler from the American Museum of Natural Science. With a frontispiece, 24 monochrome photographs over 6 plates and 2 folding plates shows plans of the village and genealogy and kinship. Collated complete. This work is written by American anthropologist Hortense Powdermaker. Powdermaker is best known for her ethnographic studies of African Americans in rural American and Hollywood and completed her PHD on "leadership in primitive society" in 1928. This work describes the life of the people from a Melanesian society in New Ireland. For this work, Powdermaker lived for ten and a half months in Lesu, closely observing the culture, relationships and customs of the people there. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally generally very smart with fading to the spine, very light rubbing to the front board, bumping to the extremities and the odd mark, heavier to the spine. Light offsetting to the rear end papers with pencil annotations. Internally firmly bound with bright and generally clean pages with light scattered spotting heavier to the front and rear. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .

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Book number: 874Z10

Catalogue: Ethnography

Keywords: First edition Melanesian Illustrated Hortense Powdermaker Melanesian Not Stated

Powdermaker, Hortense

Stranger and Friend; the Way of an Anthropologist

New York, W.W. Norton & Company, [, 1966. Hardcover. Very good condition in very good dust jacket. ]. 315p. .

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Book number: 53692