John F. Embree papers

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Identifier: 6475

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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Correspondence, newspaper clippings, census records, photographs, field notes and journals concerning the Japanese village Suye-mura, which John Embree and his wife Ella Embree Wiswell studied from 1935-36. In 1935 Embree received a grant from the Social Science Research Council to make a social study of a Japanese village. Includes a copy of John Embree's The Chinese Screen and lecture notes on the Civil Affairs Training School for the Far East.

Dates

1932-2001.

Creator

Embree, John F. (John Fee), 1908-1950. (Person)
Wiswell, Ella Lury. (Person)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

John Embree received his BA from the University of Hawaii in 1931, his MA from the University of Toronto in 1934 and his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1937. He was Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawaii, 1937-1941 and from 1943-1945, Associate Professor of Anthropology and head of the Japanese area studies of the Civil Affairs Training School for the Far East which the War Department set up at the University of Chicago for the training of military government officers for Japan and the Occupied Areas. From 1948-1950 he was Associate Professor of Sociology and Research Associate of Anthropology at Yale and in 1950 he was appointed Director of Southeast Asia Studies at Yale.

Extent

8.2 cubic feet. (8.2 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

Records of a social study undertaken by John Embree and his wife Ella Embree Wiswell of Suye-mura, a Japanese village, from 1935-1936.

SERIES LIST

Series I. Suye-mura

Boxes 1-5

Series II. Publications Concerning Suye-mura, by Embree and Others

Box 6

Series III. Writings of John F. and Ella Embree

Box 2 Folders 26-32Boxes 3-5

Series IV. Ephemera

Box 5

Series V. Photographs

Volumes 1-8

Physical Description

Correspondence, manuscripts, census records, publications, clippings, photographs, notes, journals, scrapbooks.

General

Contact Information:: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Date completed:: Apr. 22, 2003
EAD encoding:: J.M. Nicholas, July 2003