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• William Doreski Papers
• Marguerite Davol Papers
• Susan Cooper Papers
• Ewa Chrusciel Papers
• Edith Newlin Chase Papers
• Eve Bunting Papers
• Joseph Bruchac Papers
• John Bierhorst Papers
• Jonathan Daniels Collection
  Files pertaining to Keene resident and civil rights martyr Jonathan Myrick Daniels. The collection contains his personal writings, research material on him and his family, correspondence by Daniels and about him, clippings, and other artifacts.
• Adela S. Baer Collection
  Adela S. Baer received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Zoology from the University of Illinois at Urbana in 1953. After receiving a Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of California in 1962, she took a professorship at San Diego State University and served as the coordinator of graduate programs in Biology in 1969-1971 and 1981-1983. She also was chair of the Biology Department between 1975-1978 and in 1982. Baer received a Fullbright Scholarship to the University of Malaya in 1967-68 and had the opportunity to make a brief visit to Mah Meri at Pulau Carey, Jah Hut in Pahang and Temuan in Bukit Manchong, Selangor. During a year's sabbatical in 1971-72 she worked with the Hooper Foundation, a cooperative Malaysian-American medical research foundation, and lived in the Temuan village of Ulu Serendah, Selangor studying human genetics and related health problems of the Temuan. Baer continued to observe Orang Asli as a short-term visitor for a decade and then made contact and began working with Malaysian colleagues working on the same issues, research that has continued through today. She has also worked in East Malaysia, particularly in 1999-2000, and has provided comparative health information on Orang Asli vs. Sarawakian rural ethnic groups. Between 1997 and 2001 she was a co-coordinator (with Kirk Endicott of Dartmouth) of the Orang Asli Assistance Fund (which was under the umbrella of Cultural Survival of Cambridge MA). Baer visited Sarawak, Malaysia under a Fullbright scholarship in 2001. She belongs to the following associations: Sigma Xi, the American Society of Human Genetics, the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association and is a fellow of the Borneo Research Council.
• John Brandt Collection
  John Henry Brandt was a professional career officer with the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Public Health Service and the U.S. Military. His government service includes eight years spent working in Southeast Asia in the 1960's, three years in the Micronesian Islands and ten years in the United States, primarily among the Navajo, Ute, Dakota, Chippewa, Pueblo and Apache. During his service overseas he collected ethnological materials in New Guinea, Micronesia and Southeast Asia. These collections were deposited in the American Museum of National History, the Milwaukee Museum, the Kenosha Museum, the Anthropology Museum of Mexico and the Royal Ontario Museum. John H. Brandt has published widely in scientific journals on ornithology, entomology, ethnology and epidemiology. His anthropological publications include "The Negrito of Peninsular Malaysia", Journal Siam Society 49: 123-158 and "The Southeast Asian Negrito", Journal Siam Society 53: 27-43, 1965. A member of the Inter-University Southeast Asia committee during the Vietnam War period, he is currently a member Emeritus of the Explorers Club/NYC and a Research Associate with the Denver Museum of Natural History.
• Center For Orang Asli Concerns Papers
  The Center for Orang Asli Concerns (COAC) was established in 1989 as a resource and documentation center on all matters concerning Orang Asli. The COAC is a non-governmental organization that is also involved in Orang Asli advocacy, training and publication. The COAC has a sharing relationship with the Orang Asli Archive in which materials are exchanged between repositories. The digital photographs in this collection (Series 2) were taken by Colin Nicholas of the COAC. The documents included in Series 3 through Series 7 are either authored by Colin Nicholas or concern the work and activities of the COAC. Many documents are available in both print and digital versions. Check the Container List for the COAC collection to see if a print document is also available in a digital version.
• Robert K. Dentan Papers
  Robert K. Dentan received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University in American Studies in 1958 followed by a Ph.D. in Anthropology at Yale in 1965. He is currently a Full Professor of Anthropology (and formerly of American Studies) at the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB). His fieldwork in Malaysia spans a thirty-year period, beginning in 1961 and continuing through 1993 and has principally involved work with the Semai along with the Btsisi. His specializations include ethnography, cultural ecology, hierarchical and egalitarian forms of social organization, ideology, cognition and worldview, deviance and labeling, ethnicity, nonviolence, altered states of consciousness and economic development. Between 1970 and 2000 he has presented over seventy lectures, conference papers and presentations, including many with an Orang Asli subject matter. His most recent conference paper was a March 2000 lecture at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies and was titled "Modernization, Spiritual Development and the Systematic Elimination of Orang Asli from Malaysian Life: Islamicization as Political Ethnocide". Dentan is the author of numerous reviews, journal articles, book chapters, and several books and monographs including The Semai: a Nonviolent People of Malaysia that was first published in 1968. He is the recipient of a number of awards, honors and research grants and has been active as a reviewer, faculty advisor and committee member on the UB campus. He also has served in several administrative positions at UB: as Director of Graduate Studies in American Studies in 1970 and from 1977-1981; as Chair of American Studies between 1981-1984 and as Director of U.S. Studies between 1986-1987; and as Acting Chair of American Studies in the summer of 1987. He has also been a faculty member of the Anthropology Department at Ohio State University and has taught in China. He was the founder of the Orang Asli Fund and is a Trustee of the Fund for Urgent Anthropological Research. The Robert K Dentan (RKD) papers document an anthropologist's work with the Orang Asli peoples of Malaysia. The current archive holdings are a fraction of RKD's entire collection and at this date are comprised of his field notes, manuscripts, and catalogs along with published materials; some that are by other authors. The field records include an early manuscript on the Semai language titled Preliminary Field Notes on the Semai Language (series 1, folder 1), edited in 2003 and now available online (Series 2, digital file). Series 1 also includes several digital files containing compilations of field notes on different subjects (series 1, digital files).Medical Ideas and Practices Among the Jah Hut of Malaya, by Ivan Polunin, (series 2, folder 1) is based on Polunin's work in Malaysia in the late 1950's. Materia Medica of the Jah Hut by Robert K. Dentan.
• Jennifer Duguid Collection
  Jennifer Duguid worked at the Rumah Sakit Orang Asli for one year beginning in September of 1965. This hospital, located in Gombak, Malaysia, is dedicated to serving the Orang Asli people. Before working in Malaysia, Duguid was employed as an Occupational Therapist at the Belfast City Hospital in Northern Ireland. While working at the Rumah Sakit Orang Asli, Duguid set up a school for the relatives of patients, where she taught reading, writing, and arts and crafts. She also assisted in teaching English to the Orang Asli Field Staff. The hospital also provided a home to a small number of paraplegic patients. When a new telephone exchange was installed at the hospital, Duguid arranged to have two of the paraplegics trained as operators. After returning to the Belfast City Hospital, Duguid took a community based position in a mainly rural area of South Antrim, which led her to train as a social worker. She worked in the capacity for several years until she married and raised her family. This collection contains the photographs and artifacts of Jennifer Duguid, collected during her time at the Rumah Sakit Orang Asli in Gombak, Malaysia. Included are 36 black and white photographs and 48 color slides.
• Banseng Hoe Papers
  Dr. Banseng Hoe was born in Malaysia. In 1964, while studying for his Diploma in Social Work and Administration at the University of Singapore, he conducted fieldwork among the Semelai in Malaysia. His study from that time was published in 2001 as Semelai Communities at Tasek Bera: a Study of the Structure of Orang Asli Society. Dr. Hoe received his Master of Arts in Sociology from the University of Alberta, Canada in 1970 and his Ph.D. in Sociology and Anthropology (minor) from Vanderbilt University in 1974. Between 1964 and 1967 he worked as a Social Welfare Officer for the Ministry of Public Affairs, Singapore, first with the government of Malaysia (1964-1965) and then with the Government of Singapore (1965-1967). He was Head of the Asian and Middle Eastern Programme and Social Organization at the Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies, National Museum of Man, from 1974 to 1984. He is presently Curator of Asian Studies at the Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies, Canadian Museum of Civilization. Dr. Hoe has lectured frequently and has received many awards for his work. He is the author of a number of books, manuscripts, reports, scholarly articles and book reviews. The Banseng Hoe Papers document aspects of an anthropologist's research on and fieldwork among the Semelai in Malaysia. The photographs (folder 2) and the news clipping (folder 3) document the period of his fieldwork while the maps and table (folder 1), articles and abstracts (folder 2) and correspondence (folder 5) relate to his research on the Semelai and final report.
• Duncan Holaday Notebooks
  Duncan Holaday received a B.A. in Anthropology with Honors from Wesleyan University in 1968. He received an M.A. in Anthropology from Cornell University in 1972, and earned a PhD in Communications from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984. Holaday received a Fulbright grant to the University of Indonesia in 1978, and to the Universiti Sains Malaysia in 1985. The Jah Hut stories described in the notebooks in this collection were recorded, transcribed, and translated during a ten month stay in Malaysia between May 1969 and March 1970. This visit included six months of study at Gombak Hospital and three months at the Krau River in Pahang with Batin Long bin Hok. Batin Long bin Hok was the headman of the Jah Hut people at Sungai Krau, Pahang. He recited, explained and provided illustrations of the myths. Holaday returned to the Jah Hut in 1985 and 1986 to prepare these stories for their first publication through Times Books International. The stories were originally published under the title, 'Tales of a Shaman: Jah Hut Myths as told by Batin Long bin Hok.' During this visit he also made the film, 'Metos Jah Hut,' which can be found in the Human Studies Film Archive at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Holaday returned again in 1998 to prepare for the second publication of the book, this time under the title, 'Batin Long bin Hok's Bés Hyang Dnéy and other Jah Hut Stories.' The second publication was published by the Center for Orang Asli Concerns. This collection includes two notebooks that contain field notes compiled by anthropologist Duncan Holaday between 1969 and 1970. These notebooks document Holaday's research of the Jah Hut language and mythology. The first notebook, labeled Book #1 by Holaday, contains 346 pages. From the front of the notebook there are 244 pages of written notes and drawings. From the back of the notebook, upside down, there are 16 pages of notes. Upside down notes occur on pages 266, 275, 276, 308, and 333-346. There are pages missing between 195-196 and 275-276. Included in Book #1 are vocabulary lists of Jah Hut words with their English translations, drawings to illustrate the meaning of words, and notes on phonology. Book #1 also includes illustrations and descriptions of Jah Hut spirits, myths, and their meaning. The illustrations were drawn by Batin Long bin Hok, who was the headman, religious leader and story-teller of the Jah Hut. Additionally, there are two re-transcriptions of audio recordings of stories told by Long. The transcriptions are translated line by line into English. The second notebook, labeled Book # 2 by Holaday, contains 296 pages. 162 pages contain written notes and drawings. The notes include vocabulary lists and illustrations and transcriptions of audio recordings of stories told by Long. The transcriptions in Book #2 are not always accompanied by English translations. Book #1 and Book #2 also contain vocabulary lists of other Orang Asli languages. These lists are marked as Mah Meri, Semai, Che' Wong, or Semelai. The page numbers in this note do not correspond to the page numbers marked in red by Holaday in the notebooks.
• Joan Swetz Collection
  Joan Flood Swetz was raised in suburban Philadelphia, PA. She received her B.S. in Nursing from Villanova University. Swetz was the third Peace Corps nurse to work at Rumah Sakit Orang Asli in Gombak, Malaysia, under the direction of Dr. Malcolm Bolton. She worked at the hospital between October 1964 and July 1966. Most patients treated at the hospital were affected by non-acute, chronic conditions, such as tuberculosis, malaria, or parasites. Swetz's duties were similar to those of Head Nurse, and included supervising the staff, performing special procedures, record keeping, ordering supplies, health and nutrition education, and some work in out-patient clinics. She married Frank Swetz, a Peace Corps Volunteer teaching in Malaysia. This collection was compiled by Joan Flood Swetz. The contents document Swetz's work as a nurse in the Peace Corps at Rumah Sakit Orang Asli, a hospital dedicated to serving the Orang Asli people in Gombak, Malaysia. Included are 110 black and white photographs, 7 color photographs, 11 articles from newspapers and magazines, 2 letters of correspondence, and 23 typed pages of excerpts from Dr. Malcolm Bolton's journal. Some photographs are accompanied by descriptions by Swetz. Also included are two typed pages written by Swetz. One page includes biographical information on Angan binte Botek, a patient with a cardiac condition who travelled to the United States for possible treatment. The second page includes biographical information about Swetz's time as a Peace Corps Volunteer Nurse and information about Dr. Bolton's work at the hospital.
• Hrolf C. Vaughan-Stevens Papers
  Photocopies of letters, notes, manuscripts, and drawings of the work of Hrolf Vaughan-Stevens researcher of the Orang Asli in the late 1800's and early 1900's.
• Quentin Welch Papers
  A collection of the work of Quentin Welch who worked in Malaysia from late 1970-August 1973 on genetic variants among the people there. Included are photographs, notebooks, dermatological prints, and blood slides.
• Rosemary Gianno Papers
  Rosemary Gianno is currently Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Keene State College. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Queens College, City University of New York, and a Master of Philosophy and a PhD at Yale University in 1985. Dr. Gianno has spent a total of over four years in Malaysia on several different trips and did her original fieldwork in Tasek Bera, Malaysia among the Semelai studying their adaption to the forest environment. Along with Adela Baer she has been instrumental in helping to found the Orang Asli Archive at Keene State College and has been actively involved in its growth.
• Earl of Cranbrook Collection
  Gaithorne (Earl of) Cranbrook was born on June 20 in 1933. He received his Bachelor of Arts (1956) and Master of Arts (1960) degrees at Cambridge, England. He has pursued a career as an environmental biologist, initially in South East Asia and subsequently in the UK and Europe. He is a specialist in the biology and management of the cave swiftlets, the "birds-nest soup birds" and the biology of living mammals and archaeozoology of the Malaysian region. His first post-graduate appointment, 1956-58 was at the Sarawak Museum, Kuching (Borneo) where he was engaged generally in collection and curation duties and specifically in the archaeozoology and studies of cave swiftlets. After obtaining a Ph.D. at Birmingham University (1958-1960), he undertook further swiftlet studies in Indonesia (1960-61). He then joined the Zoology Department, University of Malaya, Malaysia (1961-70). In 1965 with funds granted by the Nutfield Foundation, U.K. he was instrumental in establishing the University's Field Studies Centre at Mile 26, Ulu Gombak, Selangor, alongside the road crossing the main range of the Peninsula. While living in the area he became acquainted with the Temuan people whose lands crossed both sides of the Main Range, from the Malaysian states of Selangor into Pahang. He also made friends with members of the Semai community living near Kampar, Perak from whom several men came to staff the Ulu Gombak Field Studies Centre (Pusat Penyelid ikan Kajihayat Luar) in the late 1960's. In 1970 the Earl of Cranbrook returned to his family home in Suffolk, England and became both involved in the management of the family farm and active in local, national and international public and voluntary service, and in the private sector. In 1978 he took the family title and seat in the House of Lords until 1999 when hereditary rights were abolished by the Act of 1999. He has been author (or co-author) and editor of books on the mammals, the birds, the tropical rainforest, and wonders of the natural world of the South-East Asian region, and of many scientific papers on these and related topics including Mammals of South-East Asia (1988), Wonders of Nature in South-East Asia (1997) as editor, and Swiftlets of Borneo: builders of edible nests (2002).
• Zephyr Press/Aspect Magazine Finding Guide
  Finding guide for MS.14, Zephyr Press/Aspect Magazine Records
• Ed Hogan Papers Finding Guide
  Finding guide for MS.96 Ed Hogan Papers
• Alice Fogel Papers
  Finding guide for the Alice Fogel Papers in the Keene State College Archives and Special Collections
• John Hodgen Papers
  The papers of John Hodgen, a Massachusetts based professor and poet. The collection primarily consists of his poetry writing and correspondence.