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Lawrence Krader fonds
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RC0913
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1933-1998 (Creation)
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- Krader, Lawrence
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10.8 m of textual records
457 graphical items
27 cartographic items
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Lawrence Krader was an American anthropologist and ethnologist. Born in New York City to parents who had emigrated from Russia and Austria, Krader attended CCNY studying a range of subjects, before graduating in 1941. He joined the merchant navy during the Second World War, and then returned to school at Columbia University (1945-47) and a PhD from Harvard in 1954.
Krader taught at a number of institutions including, the University of Syracuse, the American University in Washington DC, the University of Waterloo, and the Free University of Berlin. In addition to his teaching appointments and other commitments, Krader was named the Secretary-General of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences from 1964-78.
The last decade of his life, he spent writing manuscripts on a range of topics. He died suddenly of a pulmonary embolism in November 1998, leaving much of his work unpublished.
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The archive consists of Krader’s published and unpublished writing, his research notes, correspondence, and a small quantity of photographs, maps, and ephemera.
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The fonds (2018-020) was donated by Dr. Cyril Levitt in August 2018.
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Series 1 – Unpublished Manuscripts
Series 2 – Published Manuscripts
Series 3 – The New Materialism
Series 4 – Research Materials
Series 5 – Correspondence
Series 6 – Photographs and Postcards
Series 7 – Other and Ephemera
Series 8 – Cartographic Materials
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K. Kerr, C. Levitt, B. Whittle, 2011; revised B. Whittle, 2019
