Reminiscences of Paul Fejos : oral history, 1962.

Biographical Note

Anthropologist.

Scope and Contents

Childhood and education in Hungary; medical training; to United States, 1923; Rockefeller Institute, 1924-26; film industry, Hollywood and Europe during the late 1920s and early 1930s; ethnographic work for Swedish film industry, 1937-40; work with primitive tribes, Madagascar, Seychelles; shipwreck on Komodo Island; archaeology and anthropology in Peru, 1940, with Axel Wenner-Gren; Army Specialized Training Unit, Stanford University, 1943-44; Director, Wenner-Gren Foundation; use of technical aids in anthropology; Yale, 1950-51; Columbia, 1951; international symposia in Austria; ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY.

Subjects

• Anthropologists--Interviews.
• Anthropology.
• Archaeology.
• Ethnology--Fieldwork.
• Fejos, Paul, 1897-1963.
• Interviews.
• Mason, John T., 1909-1998, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Motion picture producers and directors--Interviews.
• Motion pictures in ethnology.
• Oral histories.
• Peru--Antiquities.
• Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.
• Wenner-Gren, Axel, 1881-1961.
• Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.

Access Conditions

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