Description of the Canary Islands, including the modern history of the inhabitants, and an account of their manners, customs, trade, &c. and Historia de la conquista de las siete islas de Gran Canaria. English
Description:
Imperfect: all but title page, pages 1-2, and leaves of plates wanting. Stamps on title page: American Geographical and Statistical Socy.; duplicate copy sold.
Publisher:
Printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-mall, and T. Durham in the Strand,
Subject (Geographic):
Canary Islands--Description and travel--Early works to 1800 and Canary Islands--History--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
American Geographical and Statistical Society Stamp, Dodsley, James, 1724-1797, Dodsley, Robert, 1704-1764, Durham, Thomas (Bookseller), and Glas, Ge
Has also t.p. in French: Bibliographia asiatica : bibliographie des livres et articles des journaux russes ... par V. Méjow., Title on added t.p., v. 1: Biblīografīi︠a︡ Azīi. 2-a serīi︠a︡ vsi︠a︡ Azīi︠a︡, iskli︠u︡chai︠a︡ Sibiri. Bibliographia asiatica. 2-de série, toute l'Asie excepté la Sibérie., Vol. 1, p. 231-389, and v. 2, p. 1-48, were issued in 1892 under one cover as "tom II"; the rest of v. 2 appeared in 1894 as "tom III.", and "Izdano na sredstva Glavnago shtaba."
Yvonne Oddon letters from Alfred and Rhoda Bubendey Métraux
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 15
Image Count:
24
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Collection contains letters to Yvonne Oddon from Alfred Métraux, with one folder of letters to Oddon from Rhoda Bubendey Métraux. The letters from Alfred Métraux describe his work as founder and director of the Institute of Ethnology at the University of Tucumán in Argentina, and as a Fellow of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum in Honolulu, and his teaching appointments at the University of California, Berkeley and at Yale. Also discussed are his expeditions throughout South America, Africa, and Easter Island, his trip to Europe immediately after the end of World War II, and his involvement with Unesco and their projects in the Amazon River region and Haiti. The letters also describe the writing and publishing of many of his works. and Many of the letters are personal in nature, and discuss his relationship with Oddon, his first wife, Eva Métraux, and his second wife, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux. They also describe his often difficult relationship with his work and his collegues, including Peter Henry Buck, Elizabeth Dijour, Henri Alfred Lavachery, Michel Leiris, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Robert Harry Lowie, Paul Rivet, Georges Henri Rivière, André Schaeffner, Jacques Soustelle, and others. The letters from Rhoda Métraux discuss their family life, her concern for Oddon after the war, Alfred's work, and her own work and studies.
Description:
Alfred Métraux, Swiss anthropologist and ethnologist particularly noted for his work in South America, Haiti, and Easter Island., Gift of Michel Leiris, 1990., Métraux, Rhoda Bubendey, American anthropologist., and Yvonne Oddon, librarian at the Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadero, Paris (later the Musée de l'Homme). She was part of the Musée de l'Homme Resistance Group during World War II, and was imprisoned by the Nazis. She later directed the Unesco-ICOM Documentation Centre.