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Jerome H. Barkow fonds
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CD: Electronic files - course material for different courses, talks, lectures (produced July 2008)

File consists of a CD case, formerly containing a CD. Item consisted of course materials created by Jerome Barkow, including lectures for the Psychological Anthropology courses Anthr 222 (1972-1977), Anthro 223 (1979, Summer 1980), SOSA 2230 (1983-1984), SOSA 3231.03 (1995, 1998); materials on Issues in Health and Illness course SOSA 4006; materials on Belief Systems Anthro 229B (1976-1976); materials on Beyond Genes and Circuits SOSA 3250 (2004); materials on Qualitative and Field Methods SOSA 2403 (1984); notes on Food and Eating Across Culture SOSA 2401 (1998, 2005-2006); notes on Human Ethology Anthro 221 (1972); materials on Evolutionary Psychology and the Social Sciences SOSA 3071/4072 (1997); outlines and notes for Human Ethology Anthro 307 (1972); Human Nature and Anthropology/Sociology SOSA 3070/3071 (1971-1977, 1979-1988, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2004); materials on International Development Studies (1991-1994); notes, outlines and readings for Health and Illness Across Cultures SOSA 2400 (1981-1984, 1987-1988, 2000-2001). The CD also contains departmental paper such as Discussions of departmental structure (1974-1989), Departmental paper (1990-1991), and Departmental papers (1991) for the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology. As well, there are also draft versions of Jerome Barkow's papers and presentations at different institutions, all of which can be found in the collection in physical format. The exceptions to that are his presentations Rule of Conduct and Conduct of Evolution; Comparing your Culture and Mine; Prestige and the Environment; The Persistence of Anthropology: Long-Term Processes in a Joint Department; If Knowledge is Seamless, What are you Folks Doing in Different Departments; Pleistocene Psychology, Gossip, and the Spirit of Capitalism; Happiness and Sin; Happiness in Evolutionary Perspective; Social Constructionism and Evolutionary Psychology.

Draft of published papers: Book review of McGuire and Fairbanks

File consists of a draft version of Jerome Parkow's book review of Ethological Psychiatry: Psychopathology in the Context of Evolutionary Biology by Michael T. McGuire and Lynn A. Fairbanks, and related documents to said review. The original paper, and review, are about animal behavior literature, and integrating the studies of human ethology and sociobiology, Other items include a letter to Barkow fro Marjorie Elias of the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston, who had edited Barkow's manuscript so that it could fit in the Human Ethology Newsletter; the actual review in its' condensed form; a copy of Human Ethology Newsletter #23. which has Barkow's review in it, starting on page 9, in a condensed form, with the full version also provided; a draft version of Barkow's review with edit notes.

Draft of published papers: Comment on Rendall, behavioral and brain sciences

Item consists of documents relating to Jerome Barkow's article, Our Shared Species-Typical Evolutionary Psychology, in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences journal. Items include a letter to Barkow, enclosed with an edited copy of his manuscript, and a deadline for its' return; the actual edited copies of Barkow's article, with the actual article focusing on how similar different human cultures our, and how that can prevent us from changing on the things that actually make us different; and a transfer of copyright agreement between Barkow and Cambridge Journals.

Draft of published papers: Darwinian psychological anthropology

File consists of items relating to Jerome Barkow's paper, Darwinian Psychological Anthropology: A Biosocial Approach. The paper itself centers around psychological anthropology, and how human social relationships are organized by Darwin's notions of natural selection. Other items include correspondence between Barkow and Barbara Metzger of the Current Anthropology Journal, with Metzger asking Barkow if he would like her comments on his paper to be put into the Discussion and Criticism section of the paper, and Barkow going over the comments she made on his paper; q copy of Current Anthropology Volume 14, No. 4 from October 1973, with Barkow's paper; Barkow's paper in its' regular paper form; correspondence between Barkow and Sol Tax of the University of Chicago, also discussing suggestions for the paper; a form for paper abstracts filled out by Barkow, which summarizes his paper.

Draft of published papers: Social competition and social intelligence (2001 bk chapter)

File consists of Jerome Barkow's Social Competition and Social Intelligence, and Why the Bugis Know More About Cooking Than About Nutrition paper, and related documents. The paper is about the Bugis people in Indonesia, namely how their cuisine was developed out of social competition, which made it sophisticated, at the cost of not being particularly nutritional. Items include draft versions of the paper; tables used for analysis in the paper, detailing the quality of different nutrients taken by the people in Desa Taretta and Desa Panyula, Indonesia; and several Bugis recipes, complete with ingredient lists and instructions.

Draft of published papers: The Hausa (ethnographic survey of Islam, 1978 bk chapter)

File consists of Jerome Barkow's paper The Hausa, and documents relating to it. The paper centers around analyzing and studying the Hausa people, and what their culture, norms and beliefs are. Other items consist of correspondence between Richard V. Weekes and Barkow, with Weekes inviting Barkow to contribute an entry for the book Ethnographic Survey of the Muslim World, specifically on the Hausa of West Africa, on the comments made on the paper by Weekes, and Barkow's response to those comments, and declining the chance to write about the Fulani people; and a letter to Barkow from A. H. M. Kirk-Greene, stating that, to Barkow's question, nobody knows how many Hausa there are in Western Africa in 1976, with the BBC guessing the number is 25 million.

Jerome Barkow's records re. Saint Mary's and Dalhousie University's joint international development studies program

File include program reports; committee and faculty meeting summaries and notes; course lists and syllabi; correspondence from IDS students; recommendations of the International Development Association; IDS faculty lists; and correspondence between Barkow, IDS faculty and Dalhousie administration.
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