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Mary Edith Durham papers
Title
Mary Edith Durham papers.
Production
[1900-1999]
Physical Description
1 online resource
Local Notes
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Notes
This collection contains over 6,000 pages of drawings, photographs, notes, diaries, and manuscripts documenting the local customs, politics, and traditions of the Albanian people.
Title from resource description page (viewed March 31, 2021).
Original copies held by Royal Anthropological Institute, London, W1, UK.
In English.
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Summary
Mary Edith Durham was a British artist, anthropologist, and writer who became famous for her anthropological accounts of life in Albania in the early 20th century. Traveling extensively in the Balkans between 1900-1936, she worked for several relief organizations and became a champion of the Albanian mountaineers whose lands were coveted by neighboring nations. Her studies of Balkan ethnography led to a series of books, of which 'High Albania' is the best known and is still regarded as the best guide to the customs and society of the highlands of northern Albania.
Variant and related titles
Anthropological fieldwork online. OCLC KB.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 28, 2024
Contents
MS 41: My Balkan notebook: drawings, photographs and notes, made between 1900-1914, by Mary Edith Durham. London, 1940
MS 42: Diaries of journeys, mainly to the Balkans. 1900-36
MS 43: Letters to the family, mainly to her mother and her sister Nelly - Letters to W.H. Nevinson. 1900-12
MS 44: Ethnological manuscripts
MS 45: Folk tales from the Balkans. (nd)
MS 46: Some tribal origins, laws and customs in the Balkans, by M.E. Durham. (1928)
MS 47: Notes, original and abstracted, on folklore, history, linguistics, etc. (nd)
MS 48: Albanian ballads, collected May and June 1905 - 3, Voyvoda Milosh of Drobnjak and the maiden. 1905
MS 49: Sketchbooks
MS 50: Water-colours, drawings and photographs from the Balkans. (1900-12)
MS 51: Political manuscripts, by M.E. Durham
MS 52: Notes bearing on the Sarajevo crime. Vienna, 1926
MS 53: Newspaper cuttings: reviews of M.E. Durham's works. 1905, 1909
MS 54: Newspaper articles and notes from The Nation, etc. on different subjects, mainly by W.H. Nevinson - Letters to the editor of The Nation, etc. by M.E. Durham
MS 55: Balkan politics: articles by various people, memoranda, abstracts, newspapers, letters
MS 57: Political correspondence.
Subjects
Genre/Form
field notes.
records (documents)
business records.
letters (correspondence)
personal correspondence.
Field notes.
Personal correspondence.
Records (Documents)
Field notes.
Records (Documents)
Personal correspondence.
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