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Size | 54.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 15000 items) |
Abstract | Audiocassette recordings and typed transcripts of oral history interviews conducted by Stuart A. Marks, a white biologist, anthropologist, and professor. Stuart A. Marks compiled the recordings while preparing for his book, Southern Hunting in Black and White: Nature, History and Rituals in a Carolina Community (1991). The interviews, dating from the 1970s and early 1980s, are mostly with North Carolina hunters. Of particular note is an interview with Lumbee educator and preacher, D. F. Lowry. The collection also includes supporting documentation, including Stuart A. Marks' research notes and other materials on hunting that he compiled as part of the book project. |
Creator | Marks, Stuart A., 1939- |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Roslyn Holdzkom, March and November 1990, January 1991, June 1993, August 1994, September 1994
Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008
Updated by: Anne Wells and Andrew Crook, July 2021
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Back to TopStuart A. Marks is a white biologist and anthropologist who was a Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Sciences at St. Andrews College, Laurinburg, N.C from 1970-1983. His work has mainly focused on wildlife management, conservation, and human development in Africa. Marks was born in Wilmington, N.C. in 1939 and spent most of his youth living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo at the American Presbyterian Congo Mission station, Lubondai. After completing his undergraduate degree in Zoology from North Carolina State University, Marks earned a Masters in Wildlife and Quantitative Methods and a Ph.D. in Ecology and Anthropology from Michigan State University. Marks' dissertational work in Zambia with the Valley Bisa culture has been the basis for much of his personal and professional research. Books he authored include Large Mammals and a Brave People (1976); The Imperial Lion (1984); Discordant Village Voices (2014); and Life as a Hunt: Thresholds of Identities and Illusions on an African Landscape (2016). He also wrote Southern Hunting in Black and White: Nature, History and Rituals in a Carolina Community (1991), a book on Southern hunting in the United States from colonialist, or "frontier times", through the antebellum era to the present day.
Back to TopAudiocassette recordings and typed transcripts of oral history interviews conducted by Stuart A. Marks, a white biologist, anthropologist, and professor. Stuart A. Marks compiled the recordings while preparing for his book, Southern Hunting in Black and White: Nature, History and Rituals in a Carolina Community (1991). The interviews, dating from the 1970s and early 1980s, are mostly with North Carolina hunters. Of particular note is an interview with Lumbee educator and preacher, D. F. Lowry. The collection also includes supporting documentation, including Stuart A. Marks' research notes and other materials on hunting that he compiled as part of the book project.
Back to TopArrangement: Audio recordings are arranged alphabetically by interviewee last name or title of recording.
Processing information: Papers reside in their original folders annotated by Stuart A. Marks. Archivists compiled audio recording titles and descriptions from notes found on their original containers or cases.