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Electronic finding aid encoded by Megan MacDonald

Summary Information

Repository
Liberian Collections
Liberian Collections
Indiana University
504 North Fess Avenue
Bloomington, IN 47408
Phone: (812) 856-0782
Email: liberia@indiana.edu
http://www.onliberia.org

Creator
McEvoy, Frederick Dean

Title
Frederick Dean McEvoy, 1956-1979

Collection No.
LCP2008/004

Extent
2 cubic feet; 2 records cartons

Language
Materials are primarily in English

Abstract
The collection consists of field notes, research material, manuscripts and conference papers. Also included is a list of conference dates and papers that coincide. There is also a removed material Bibliography.

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions for this collection.

Accession Information

This collections is open for research. Please contact the Liberian Collections Project for access.

Biographical Note

Frederick Dean McEvoy was born on December 17, 1935, to Jesse and Reita Smith McEvoy in North Platte, Nebraska. McEvoy gained his initial experience in archaeology in 1951, as a summer assistant on an archaeological dig in North Dakota, under the direction of Dr. Richard P. Wheeler. Upon graduation from North Platte High School in 1953, he entered the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, completing one year of course work as an anthropology major. McEvoy subsequently joined the U.S. Navy and was trained as an air traffic controller; he served in the Philippines from 1958 to 1961. He married Hilda Seitz McEvoy in 1957; the couple had two daughters, Karen and Gwen. After discharge from the Navy in 1961 , McEvoy returned to the University of Nebraska, studying anthropology, with a focus on the Omaha Indians. Following graduation in 1964, he received a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellowship for graduate study in anthropology at the University of Oregon . Studying under Dr. Vernon Dorjahn, McEvoy was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship for field research in Liberia from 1967-1968. Upon completion of his Ph.D. at University of Oregon, McEvoy taught anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and subsequently at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. While at Marshall University, McEvoy was also co-editor, along with Dr. Svend Holsoe, of volume 6 and 7 of the Liberian Studies Journal (1975-1977).

McEvoy left academia in 1979, moved to Denver, and initially worked for the non-profit organization, Denver Opportunity. From 1981 to 1989, he served as the Director of Research and Education at the Colorado State Civil Rights Division. In the mid-1990s, McEvoy worked for the West Virginia Division of Culture and History in Charleston. McEvoy relocated to his hometown of North Platte, Nebraska, in 2002; he passed away on April 1, 2007.

Arrangement

There are two main series Publications and Manuscripts and Field Notes and Research Material. Within the Publications and Manuscripts series there are two sub series “McEvoy” and “Other.” Within the Field Notes and Research Material there are three sub series, “Field Notes,” “Research Material,” and “Liberian Research Binders.” Liberian Research Binders are a sub series of their own due to their overlapping of both field and research material and the large number of binders in collection. Due to a large amount of overlapping material Field Notes and Research Material is the largest of the two series. All folders are listed chronologically, unless titled undated, which were then listed alphabetically at end of series.

Scope and Content

The collection consists mostly of field notes and research material describing McEvoy’s time in Africa, primarily the Sabo region and the Firestone rubber plantations. Within the research and field material are maps, tables, charts. These usually consist of information on Migrant workers in the Sabo region. The collection also includes various manuscripts and conference papers written by McEvoy himself and other authors. Also included is a list of conference dates and papers that coincide as well as a removed material bibliography. Further more, it will be mentioned that the folder listed “Field Note Journals” are the raw material from which more understandable and typed field notes would come.

• Indexing Terms

• The following terms have been used to index this collection.

• • Names
  • McEvoy, Frederick Dean
  • Firestone plantation
• • Topics
  • Sabo (African people)
  • Migrant Workers
• • Places
  • Liberia

Removed Materials

Below is a list or material that was removed from the Frederick McEvoy Collection. The material that was removed from the collection was either duplicates of material in the collection or was easily accessible in another format. The materials listed are arranged in alphabetical order by author.

Adams, Robert M. (1969) The Origins of Cities . Scientific American. W.H. Freeman and Company .

Almond, Gabriel A. (August, 1956) Comparative Political Systems . The Journal of Politics, Vol. 18

Atkins, John and Anthony F.C. Wallace. (February, 1960). The Meaning of Kinship Terms. American Anthropologist, Vol. 62

Careiro, Robert L. (September, 1956) Slash- and- Burn Agriculture: A Closer Look at its Implications for Settlement Patterns. Men and Cultures, Selected Papers of the Fifth International congress of Anthropological Ethnological Sciences. Anthony F.C. Wallace, ed.

Clark, Colin and Margaret Haswell. (1966). The Economics of Subsistence Agriculture. Primitive and Shifting Agriculture. London:Macmillian, NY: St. Martin’s Press.

Dalton, George. (February, 1961) Economic Theory and Primitive Society. American Anthropologist, Vol. 63

Davis, Kingsley and Wilbert E. Moore. (April, 1945) Some Principles of Stratification. American Sociological Review, Vol. 10

De Grazia, Sebastian. (June, 1959) What Authority is Not. The American Political Science Review, Vol. LII

Duncan, Otis Dudley and Leo F. Schnore. (September, 1959) Cultural, Behavioral, and Ecological Perspectives in the Study of Social Organization. The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. LXV

Durkheim, Emile. (1947) Division of Labor in Society: Preface to the Second Edition Some Notes on Occupational Groups. The Division of Labor in Society, The Free Press.

Fallers, Llyod. (April, 1955) The Predicament of the Modern African Chief: An Instance from Uganda. American Anthropologist, Vol. 57

Fei, Hsiao-Tung. (July, 1946) Peasantry and Gentry: An Interpretation of Chinese Social Structure and its Changes. The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. LII

Foster, George M. (1953) What is Folk Culture? American Anthropologist, Vol. 55

Geertz, Clifford. The Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of Man.

Gluckman, Max. (1949) Malinowski’s ‘Functional’ Analysis of Social Change

Goody, Jack. (1972) The “Family” and the “Household.” An Addison-Wesley Module in Anthropology . P 1-32.

Harris, David R. (1972) Swidden Systems and Settlement . A Warner Modular Publication. p 1-18. Herskovits, Melville J. (1945) The Process of Cultural Change. The Science of Man in the World Crisis, Ralph Linton, (ed.) Columbia University Press

Jurgens, Hans W., Tracey, Kenneth A. and Peter K. Mitchell. Internal Migration in Liberia. Sierra Leone Geo. Association, No. 10.

Liebenow, J. Gus. (1969) Politics, Privilege and Progress in Liberia- a Review Article. Cornell University Press.

Linton, Ralph. (October, 1942) Age and Sex Categories . American Sociological Review, Vol. 7

Llyod, P.C. (July, 1960) Sacred Kingship and Government among the Yoruba . Africa, Vol. XXX, No. 3

McEvoy, Frederick Dean. (1977) Understanding Ethnic Realities Among the Grebo and Kru Peoples of West Africa. . Africa. p 62-79.

Merton, Robert K. (December, 1936) The Unanticipated Consequences of Purposive Social Action . American Sociological Review, Vol. 1

Netting, Robert McC. (1974) Agrarian Ecology . Annual Review of Anthropology. p 21-57.

Omer-Cooper, J.D. (1966) The Zulu Aftermath: A Nineteenth-Century Revolution in Bantu Africa (I Bantu South Africa before the Mfecane). Northwestern University Press. (3 copies) Redfield, Robert. (January, 1947) The Folk Society . The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. LII

Rouse, Irving. (1939) Conceptual Technique. Prehistory in Haiti: a Study in Method . Yale University Publications in Anthropology, No. 21.

Sjoberg, Gideon. (November, 1952) Folk and “Feudal” Societies. The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. LVIII Sjoberg, Gideon. (March, 1955) The Preindustrial City . The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. LX

Skinner, Elliott P. Labour Migration and Its Relationship to Socio-Cultural Change in Mossi Society

Smith, Philip E. L. (1972) Land-use, Settlement Patterns and Subsistence Agriculture: a Demographic Perspective . A Warner Modular Publication. p 1-17.

Southall, Aidan. (1974) State Formation in Africa . University of Wisconsin .

Steward, Julian H. (1936) The Economic and Social Basis of Primitive Bands. Essays in Anthropology in Honor of Alfred Louis Kroeber Berkeley: University of California Press

The Genealogical Method of Anthropological Inquiry . (1910) The Sociological Review, Vol. III.

Papers by Conference

Below is a list of conferences and papers from those conferences. The papers are listed in a alphabetical order by the paper’s title.

Eleventh Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association- Los Angeles, California, October 16-19 1968

Port Hardcourt: IBO Politics in Microcosm by Howard E. Wolpe

Research on the Uses of Kinship in Sabo Labor Migration by Frederick McEvoy

American Anthropological Association- Seattle, Washington, November 22, 1968

Kinship Obligations and Entrepreneurship: Conflicting or Supplementary? by Frederick McEvoy

Society for Applied Anthropology- Mexico City April 10 1969

Culture and Family Planning by Steven Polgar

Conference on Social Science Research in Liberia- Stanford University, August 1-2 1969

Some Problems in Sabo Kinship and Community Organization by Frederick McEvoy

Liberian Research Conference - 1970

What Liberians Call Themselves and Each Other by Svend Holsoe

Third Annual Conference on Liberian Social Science Research - University of Delaware 1971

Tubman and Liberia: The Grandeur and Potential Crisis of Charismatic Leadership by Losay A. Lalugba

15th Annual Meetings Northeastern Anthropological Association- Potsdam, New York April 16-19 1975

The Lack of Kpelle Entrepreneurs in Liberia: Current Trends and Prospects for the Future of Kpelle Society by Gerald M. Erchak

Eighth Annual Meeting of the Liberian Studies Association- Indiana University, Bloomington April 8-10 1976

Change within the Social and Political Structure of the Sikleo Kru by Thomas E. Hayden

Conference Schedule Eighth Annual Meeting of the Liberian Studies Association

Ethnicity and Trade: Hawkers and Petty Shopkeepers in Pandambu, Sierra Leone by Barry Issacs

Liberia and Sierra Leone: Alternative Patterns of Central-Local Linkage by Christopher Clapham

Liberian-Firestone Relations: Some Policy Implications for Economic and Social Development by James Teah Tarpeh

Loma Households and the Production of Rice: Implications for Commercial Production by Jeanette E. Carter

Patterning in Food Purchasing Activities and Preferences in Monrovia, 1970: an Oblique Factor Analysis by Vernon R. Dorjahn and Barry Issacs

Sabo Migrant Households by Frederick McEvoy

Survey of Psychological Research in Liberia by Orin James Martin

The Search for Matilda Newport by Jane Martin

Thomas Buchanan: Anti-Slavery Governor of Liberia, 1839-1841 by Dr. Rodney Carlisle

Unpublished Letter from Bassa Cove in 1847 from a Black American Missionary: Political and Medical Implications

Administrative Information

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