![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There, he collaborated with Bess Lomax Hawes and other colleagues in the production of several ethnographic films, including Georgia Sea Island Singers about Gullah (or Geechee) songs and dances. In 1957, Carpenter was the founding chair in the interdisciplinary program "Anthropology and Art" at San Fernando Valley State College (now California State University, Northridge). Carpenter and McLuhan's partnership resulted in the Seminar on Culture and Communication (1953-1959) and the journal series Explorations. Together, they received a Ford Foundation grant (1953-1955) for an interdisciplinary media research project into the impact of mass communications and mass media on culture change. This material consists of research reprints and archival reference photocopies and photographic prints from various repositories.Īlso in the 1950s, Carpenter began a working relationship with media theorist Marshall McLuhan. A portion of the material collected here consist of consolidated research into specific topics, gathered from archival repositories, museums, correspondence, and published works. Additional materials include books and book chapters journal copies and journal excerpts magazine, newspaper, and article clippings and excerpts museum and gallery catalogues, brochures, and guides pamphlets and reprints. Materials in this collection include artifact and burial records correspondence drawings and illustrations essays interviews and oral histories inventories and catalogues manuscripts and drafts, and fragments of drafts maps memoranda and meeting minutes notes, notebooks, and data analysis obituaries and memorials photographic prints, slides, and negatives, including personal photographs and portraits proposals and plans for museum exhibits reports resumes and bibliographies reviews and sound recordings on CD-Rs and audio cassettes. The collection also documents Carpenter's correspondence with fellow scholars, ethnographers, filmmakers, and colleagues his published writings and elements of his personal life, such as obituaries and personal photographs. Specific research projects and interests documented are: his 1950s fieldwork among the Aivilik Inuit in the Canadian Arctic as well as his studies into Inuit concepts of space, time, and geography his partnership and collaboration with media theorist Marshall McLuhan and his ethnographic studies of Papua New Guinean tribal communities his early-career archaeological digs at Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) burial mounds in Sugar Run, Pennsylvania, as well as later archaeological interest in Arctic peoples, Siberia, and the Norwegian artifact dubbed the "Norse Penny" his reflections on the disciplines of anthropology and media studies his editing and completion of the work of art historian Carl Schuster at the Museum der Kulturen (Museum of Ethnology) in Basel, Switzerland his editing of The Story of Comock the Eskimo, as told to Robert Flaherty and his museum exhibitions compiled on the topics of surrealist and tribal art. ![]() The Pew poll, she wrote, “showed that among Europeans, a median of 49 percent of respondents thought their country should not defend an ally, a response that exposes a lack of commitment to collective defense.” Indeed, France, Italy and Germany all had majorities opposed to fulfilling their country’s obligation to fulfill the Article 5 treaty pledge to consider an attack on any NATO member as an attack on all.The papers of Edmund Carpenter, 1940-2011, document the research interests and projects undertaken by Carpenter in the fields of cultural anthropology, ethnographic filmmaking, media theory, archaeology, and indigenous art. In particular, she noted the responses to Article 5, the core of NATO’s commitment to collective defense, which requires members to defend an ally if it is attacked. Judy Dempsey, a senior fellow at Carnegie Europe - a thoroughly establishment think tank - was alarmed by the results of a 2015 Pew Research Center survey of eight NATO countries. But that erosion was well underway before Trump emerged on the scene, and it applied even to NATO’s core mission of collective defense. The easy, intellectually lazy explanation is to blame Trump’s abrasive, “isolationist” statements for the erosion of transatlantic solidarity. ![]()
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