Sydel Silverman: A New Virtual Finding Aid for a Scholar Committed to Anthropology’s Legacy

dc.contributor.authorMarsh, Diana
dc.contributor.authorChristensen, Katherine
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-14T13:49:51Z
dc.date.available2022-11-14T13:49:51Z
dc.date.issued2020-03-11
dc.description.abstractLast March, a giant in the field of anthropology passed away. Sydel Silverman (1933-2019) was a scholar of Italian and other (as she called them) “complex” societies, as well as the history of anthropology. Silverman advocated for anthropology throughout her career. At the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center in the 1970s, Silverman argued that anthropology was an “essential” discipline, convincing Margaret Mead to join her fight. Silverman’s perhaps most influential contribution to the field was her leadership of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, anthropology’s most prominent funding organization, where she served as President from 1987 to 1999. Through Wenner-Gren, Silverman built anthropology’s intellectual community and reach. Silverman was also a major proponent of preserving anthropology’s legacy through archival records. She helped to found the Council for the Preservation of Anthropological Records (CoPAR), which published works on the topic and created a registry of anthropologists’ archival papers. This month, the NAA published a digital, keyword searchable (‘encoded’, in archives-speak) finding aid (created by Katherine Christensen) to Silverman’s collections.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/rv8a-lk5o
dc.identifier.citationD.E. Marsh and K. Christensen 2020. Sydel Silverman: A New Virtual Finding Aid for a Scholar Committed to Anthropology’s Legacy, Smithsonian Collections Blog: https://si-siris.blogspot.com/2020/03/sydel-silverman-new-virtual-finding-aid.htmlen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/29465
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherSmithsonian Collections Blogen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtCollege of Information Studiesen_us
dc.relation.isAvailableAtInformation Studiesen_us
dc.relation.isAvailableAtDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_us
dc.relation.isAvailableAtUniversity of Maryland (College Park, MD)en_us
dc.subjectanthropologyen_US
dc.subjectarchivesen_US
dc.subjectrecordsen_US
dc.subjectlegacy collectionsen_US
dc.subjectmuseumsen_US
dc.subjectCoPARen_US
dc.subjectWenner-Grenen_US
dc.titleSydel Silverman: A New Virtual Finding Aid for a Scholar Committed to Anthropology’s Legacyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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