Terence Hays Papers, 1956 - 2008 (MSS 706)

Extent: 3.2 Linear feet (8 archives boxes)

Papers of anthropologist and professor Terence Hays. The archive primarily concerns Hays' three field studies in the Papua New Guinea highlands in 1971-1972, 1981, and 1985, where he researched language and interactions between the sexes. The collection includes correspondence, field notes and unpublished papers.

Terence Hays was born September 30, 1942, in Shenandoah, Iowa. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts in sociology from the University of Omaha in 1966, a Master of Arts in anthropology from the University of Colorado in 1968, and a Doctor of Philosophy in anthropology from the University of Washington in 1974.

Hays received two Fulbright Senior Scholar awards and spent the majority of his career at Rhode Island College in the Department of Anthropology and Geography beginning in 1973. Hays has been a professor emeritus there since 2006.

The papers document the professional correspondence and research of anthropologist and professor Terence Hays. The bulk of the collection is centered largely around three field studies conducted by Hays in Papua New Guinea, and is arranged in three series: 1) CORRESPONDENCE, 2) FIELD NOTES and 3) WRITINGS.

Container List

CORRESPONDENCE

Scope and Content of Series

SERIES 1) CORRESPONDENCE: The series documents the large amount of administrative work necessary to organize a trip to a location as remote as the Papua New Guinea Highlands, as well as numerous requests for research materials and publications from colleagues in similar fields of study, and dialogues on Hays' and others' research subjects.

Box 1 Folder 1
A - B Miscellaneous
Box 1 Folder 2
Ballard, Chris, 1990-2001
Box 1 Folder 3
Berndt, Catherine H. and Ronald M., 1985-1992
Box 1 Folder 4
Biersack, Aletta, 1980-1993
Box 1 Folder 5
Bowers, Nancy, 1971-1985
Box 1 Folder 6
Boyd, David, 1972-2000
Box 1 Folder 7
Brown Glick, Paula, 1981-2004
Box 1 Folder 8
Brumbaugh, Robert, 1981-1986
Box 1 Folder 9
Bulmer, Ralph, 1970-1988
Box 1 Folder 10
Bunn, Gordon, 1981
Box 1 Folder 11
Bush, Thelma, 1985-1986
Box 1 Folder 12
Busse, Mark, 1987-1988
Box 1 Folder 13
C - D Miscellaneous
Box 1 Folder 14
Claas, Ulrike, 1999-2003
Box 1 Folder 15
Clarke, William C., 1971-2000
Box 1 Folder 16
Clunie, N.M.U., 1975-1979
Box 1 Folder 17
Constance, Lincoln, 1977
Box 1 Folder 18
Cook, Edwin A., 1973-1983
Box 1 Folder 19
Craig, Barry, 1983-2004
Box 1 Folder 20
Davies, John, 1981
Box 1 Folder 21
Deibler, Ellis, 1981
Box 1 Folder 22
Dwyer, Peter and Monica Minnegal, 1984-1999
Box 1 Folder 23
E - G Miscellaneous
Box 1 Folder 24
Feld, Steven, 1979-1991
Box 1 Folder 25
Finch, John, 1983-1991
Box 1 Folder 26
Flanagan, James G., 1981-1985
Box 1 Folder 27
Forge, Anthony, 1986-1989
Box 1 Folder 28
Franklin, Karl J., 1981-1990
Box 1 Folder 29
Gajdusek, D.C., 1973-1982
Box 1 Folder 32
Galore, Michael, 1978-1980
Box 1 Folder 31
Gardner, Donald S., 1984-2001
Box 1 Folder 32
Gewertz, Deborah, 1976-1991
Box 1 Folder 33
Glasse, Robert M., 1985-1990
Box 1 Folder 34
Godschalk, Jan, 1990-1996
Box 1 Folder 35
Gordon, Robert J., 1980-1984
Box 1 Folder 36
Grosh, Andy and John, 1995
Box 1 Folder 37
Grossman, Larry, 1974-1985
Box 1 Folder 38
H Miscellaneous
Box 1 Folder 39
Haiman, John, 1977-1981
Box 1 Folder 40
Hammar, Lawrence, 1991-1996
Box 1 Folder 41
Hawkes, Kristen, 1971-1987
Box 1 Folder 42
Hayano, David M., 1977-1983
Box 1 Folder 43
Heider, Karl G., 1971-1981
Box 1 Folder 44
Herdt, Gilbert, 1973-1996
Box 1 Folder 45
Hide, Robin, 1981-2005
Box 2 Folder 1
Hyndman, David, 1981-1984
Box 2 Folder 2
I - L Miscellaneous
Box 2 Folder 3
Jones, Barbara, 1979-1986
Box 2 Folder 4
Jorgensen, Dan, 1979-1994
Box 2 Folder 5
Kelly, Raymond C., 1981-1988
Box 2 Folder 6
Kirsch, Stuart, 1991-1994
Box 2 Folder 7
Knauft, Bruce M., 1982-1997
Box 2 Folder 8
Lancy, David F., 1980
Box 2 Folder 9
Langness, Lewis L., 1979-1995
Box 2 Folder 10
Lea, David A. M., 1977-1979
Box 2 Folder 11
Leininger, Madeline, 1975-1986
Box 2 Folder 12
LeRoy, John, 1981-1984
Box 2 Folder 13
Levine, Harold G., 1977-1983
Box 2 Folder 14
Lindenbaum, Shirley, 1976-1998
Box 2 Folder 15
Lomax, Alan, 1991-1994
Box 2 Folder 16
Lutkehaus, Nancy, 1987-1995
Box 2 Folder 17
M - R Miscellaneous
Box 2 Folder 18
May, R. J., 1981-1991
Box 2 Folder 19
Mayer, Jessica and Ragnar Johnson, 1980-1985
Box 2 Folder 20
McElhanon, Kenneth A., 1988-1992
Box 2 Folder 21
McLean, Ann, 1984-1992

Includes one photograph of Reo Fortune.

Box 2 Folder 22
Meggitt, M. J., 1976-1993
Box 2 Folder 23
Meigs, Anna, 1977-1996
Box 2 Folder 24
Morren, George, 1981-1995
Box 2 Folder 25
Newton, Douglas, 1989-2001
Box 2 Folder 26
Niles, Don, 1985-1999
Box 2 Folder 27
O'Hanlon, Michael, 1989-2000
Box 2 Folder 28
Pataki-Schweizer, Kerry, 1971-1996
Box 2 Folder 29
Pawley, Andrew, 1988-2003
Box 2 Folder 30
Ploeg, Anton, 1986-2007
Box 2 Folder 31
Poole, Fitz J. P., 1976-1984
Box 2 Folder 32
Rappaport, Roy A., 1976-1986
Box 2 Folder 33
Read, Kenneth E., 1981-1987
Box 3 Folder 1
Reay, Marie, 1979-1991
Box 3 Folder 2
Roscoe, Paul B., 1985-2007
Box 3 Folder 3
Ryan, D'Arcy, 1984-1994
Box 3 Folder 4
S - Z Miscellaneous
Box 3 Folder 5
Salisbury, Richard F., 1981-1987
Box 3 Folder 6
Sankoff, Gillian, 1971-1979
Box 3 Folder 7
Scaglion, Richard, 1983-2002
Box 3 Folder 8
Schiefenhövel, Wulf, 1980-1992
Box 3 Folder 9
Schieffelin, Bambi, 1979-1991
Box 3 Folder 10
Schieffelin, E.L., 1979-1988
Box 3 Folder 11
Shaw, R. Daniel, 1979-1992
Box 3 Folder 12
Spriggs, Matthew, 1981-1982
Box 3 Folder 13
Stokhof, W.A.L. - Includes two grant proposals, 1991
Box 3 Folder 14
Strathern, Andrew, 1975-1992
Box 3 Folder 15
Strathern, Marilyn, 1972-1988
Box 3 Folder 16
Stürzenhofecker, Gabriele, 1988-1989
Box 3 Folder 17
Telban, Borut, 1988-2001
Box 3 Folder 18
Townsend, Patricia, 1974-1990
Box 3 Folder 19
Tuzin, Donald, 1977-1997
Box 3 Folder 20
Wagner, Roy, 1977-1993
Box 3 Folder 21
Warry, Wayne, 1981
Box 3 Folder 22
Watson, James B., 1971-1996
Box 3 Folder 23
Watson, Virginia D., 1972-1991
Box 3 Folder 24
Welsch, Robert L., 1977 - 1999
Box 3 Folder 25
Westermark, George, 1980-1992
Box 3 Folder 26
White, Peter, 1973-1981
Box 3 Folder 27
Womersley, John S., 1975-1982
Box 3 Folder 28
Wormsley, William, 1981-2002
Box 3 Folder 29
Young, Michael, 1985-2001
Box 3 Folder 30
Zimmer, Laura, 1987-1988

FIELD NOTES

Scope and Content of Series

SERIES 2) FIELD NOTES: Hays' notes span three grant-funded field studies in Papua New Guinea. The first study spanned fifteen months, beginning in July 1971, and focused on the variation of plant and animal knowledge of individuals in a Tairora-speaking community (Ndumba) in the Kainantu District of Eastern Highlands Province. The second study spanned two months in 1981 and focused on ethnobiology, gender relations, and oral literature in the same Eastern Highlands community. Hays' third study took place over a month in 1985 and served to further the research he began in 1981. The field notes comprise thirty-two handwritten notebooks from his first field study in 1971-1972, followed by loose-leaf handwritten notes from all three expeditions which are arranged by subject. Hays' typed field notes, which aggregate the contents of the field notebooks and notes from the three field studies with the rest of his research, are filed by subjects he assigned himself.

Field Notebooks

Box 3 Folder 31
Notebook I, July - August 1971
Box 3 Folder 32
Notebook II, September 1971
Box 4 Folder 1
Notebook III, September 1971
Box 4 Folder 2
Notebook IV, September 1971
Box 4 Folder 3
Notebook V, September - October 1971
Box 4 Folder 4
Notebook VI, October - November 1971
Box 4 Folder 5
Notebook VII, November 1971
Box 4 Folder 6
Notebook VIII, November - December 1971
Box 4 Folder 7
Notebook IX, December 1971
Box 4 Folder 8
Notebook X, December 1971 - January 1972
Box 4 Folder 9
Notebook XI, January 1972
Box 4 Folder 10
Notebook XII, January 1972
Box 4 Folder 11
Notebook XIII, January - February 1972
Box 4 Folder 12
Notebook XIV, February - March 1972
Box 4 Folder 13
Notebook XV, March 1972
Box 4 Folder 14
Notebook XVI, March 1972
Box 4 Folder 15
Notebook XVII, March - April 1972
Box 5 Folder 1
Notebook XVIII, April - May 1972
Box 5 Folder 2
Notebook XIX, May - June 1972
Box 5 Folder 3
Notebook XX, June 1972
Box 5 Folder 4
Notebook XXI, June 1972
Box 5 Folder 5
Notebook XXII, June - July 1972
Box 5 Folder 6
Notebook XXIII, July 1972
Box 5 Folder 7
Notebook XXIV, July 1972
Box 5 Folder 8
Notebook XXV, July - August 1972
Box 5 Folder 9
Notebook XXVI, August 1972
Box 5 Folder 10
Notebook XXVII, August 1972
Box 5 Folder 11
Notebook XXVIII, September 1972
Box 5 Folder 12
Notebook XXIX, September 1972
Box 5 Folder 13
Notebook XXX, September 1972
Box 5 Folder 14
Notebook XXXI
Box 5 Folder 15
Notebook XXXII, October 1972

Miscellaneous Field Notes

Box 6 Folder 1
Animal master list, 1971-1972
Box 6 Folder 2
Animal notes and IDs, 1981-1985
Box 6 Folder 3
Marriage matrix, October 1972
Box 6 Folder 4
Miscellaneous notes, 1972-1985
Box 6 Folder 5
Plant specimen IDs, 1971-1981
Box 6 Folder 6
Translated and transcribed stories, 1971

Typed Field Notes

Box 6 Folder 7
Animals, 1971-1972
Box 6 Folder 8
Astronomy, 1971-1972
Box 6 Folder 9
Body parts
Box 6 Folder 10
Calendar, 1971-1972
Box 6 Folder 11
Census, 1971-1985
Box 6 Folder 12
Childbirth, 1971-1972
Box 6 Folder 13
Color, 1971-1972
Box 6 Folder 14
Contact, 1971-1972
Box 6 Folder 15
Counting, 1971-1972
Box 6 Folder 16
Curing, 1971-1972
Box 6 Folder 17
Curses, 1972
Box 6 Folder 18
Death, 1971-1985
Box 6 Folder 19
Demography, 1971, 1981
Box 6 Folder 20
Diet, 1971
Box 6 Folder 21
Discipline, 1972
Box 6 Folder 22
Disputes, 1971
Box 6 Folder 23
Divination, 1971
Box 6 Folder 24
Dreams, 1971
Box 6 Folder 25
Fear of women, 1971-1981
Box 6 Folder 26
Feasts, 1971-1972
Box 6 Folder 27
Female ceremonies, 1971-1972
Box 6 Folder 28
Festival, 1971
Box 6 Folder 29
Food taboos, 1971-1985
Box 6 Folder 30
Gardens, 1972
Box 6 Folder 31
Genealogy, 1971-1985
Box 7 Folder 1
Geology, 1971-1972
Box 7 Folder 2
Houses, 1971
Box 7 Folder 3
Hunting, 1971-1972
Box 7 Folder 4
Imani, 1972
Box 7 Folder 5
Inheritance, 1971
Box 7 Folder 6
Insanity, 1971
Box 7 Folder 7
Initiation, 1971-1981
Box 7 Folder 8
Kinship, 1971
Box 7 Folder 9
Konkonbira, 1972
Box 7 Folder 10
Land rights, 1971-1972
Box 7 Folder 11
Language, 1971-1972
Box 7 Folder 12
Lexicon, 1971-1972
Box 7 Folder 13
Life history, 1971-1972
Box 7 Folder 14
Magic, 1971-1985
Box 7 Folder 15
Maps
Box 7 Folder 16
Marital fighting, 1971-1972
Box 7 Folder 17
Marriage, 1971-1972
Box 7 Folder 18
Mission, 1971-1981
Box 7 Folder 19
Naming, 1971-1981
Box 7 Folder 20
Patrols (1930s - 1940s)
Box 7 Folder 21
Patrols (1950s)
Box 7 Folder 22
Patrols (1960s)
Box 7 Folder 23
Patrols (1970s)
Box 7 Folder 24
Pidgin school for girls, 1972
Box 7 Folder 25
Pigs
Box 7 Folder 26
Places, 1971-1981
Box 7 Folder 27
Plants, 1971-1972
Box 7 Folder 28
Plant collections, 1971-1972
Box 7 Folder 29
Plant identifications, 1971-1980
Box 7 Folder 30
Plant interview sessions, 1971-1972
Box 7 Folder 31
Plant sorting, 1972
Box 7 Folder 32
Pollution, 1971-1972
Box 8 Folder 1
Possession, 1971-1981
Box 8 Folder 2
Reproduction, 1971-1981
Box 8 Folder 3
Settlements, 1971-1972
Box 8 Folder 4
Sex, 1971-1981
Box 8 Folder 5
Social structure, 1971-1972
Box 8 Folder 6
Sorcery, 1971-1981
Box 8 Folder 7
Spirits, 1971-1985
Box 8 Folder 8
Suicide, 1971
Box 8 Folder 9
Taboos, 1972
Box 8 Folder 10
Technology, 1971-1972
Box 8 Folder 11
Trade, 1971-1981
Box 8 Folder 12
Village book
Box 8 Folder 13
Warfare, 1971-1981
Box 8 Folder 14
Weather, 1972
Box 8 Folder 15
Word list in the Haviqinra dialect of Tairora, 1972
Box 8 Folder 16
Arrows, 1972
Box 8 Folder 17
Artifacts, 1981
Box 8 Folder 18
Implements, with handwritten notes, 1971-1972
Box 8 Folder 19
Ornaments, 1971-1972
Box 8 Folder 20
Population and houses by hamlet, 1971, 1971, 1981, 1985

WRITINGS

Scope and Content of Series

SERIES 3) WRITINGS: Hays' unpublished papers on the people and plants of the Papua New Guinea Highlands, as well as one unpublished article and one report used for research.

Miscellaneous authors

Box 8 Folder 21
Minutes of meeting in Canberra on 20th October 1956, to discuss standardization of terminology to be used to describe social groups in New Guinea Highlands, October 20, 1956
Box 8 Folder 22
"Report on the business manager's visit to the territory of Papua-New Guinea," from the Australian National University Research Schools of Social Sciences and Pacific Studies, November 25 - December 8, 1969

Report includes twelve original photographs of buildings, landscapes, and community members.

Hays, Terence

Box 8 Folder 23
Portnoy's constraint: the distribution of botanical knowledge in a New Guinea highlands community, 1972
Box 8 Folder 24
Gender concepts and sexual opposition in Ndumba myths, March 30, 1980
Box 8 Folder 25
Food plants in Ndumba, 1980-1981
Box 8 Folder 26
Folk tales from Habi'ina, Kainantu district, Eastern Highlands Province, 1985
Box 8 Folder 27
Regional networks and areal integration in coastal New Guinea, November 17, 1989
Box 8 Folder 28
Oral narratives from Ndumba (Habi'ina village) Papua New Guinea highlands, 1992