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In 1937, when Cummings retired and his former student, Emil Haury, took over as chair of the department, Haury initiated a change in its name to the Department of Anthropology, to reflect the breadth of scholarly activities it had come to encompass; he also aimed to expand it to include [[social anthropology]], [[applied anthropology]], and [[ethnology]].<ref>"[http://anthropology.arizona.edu/content/haury-and-department-anthropology History: Haury and the Department of Anthropology]." University of Arizona, School of Anthropology. Retrieved 2016-05-29.</ref> Haury asked Tanner to develop a course on Southwest ethnology and archaeology. From around this time her research interests began to focus on Southwest Indian arts, crafts, and ethnology.<ref name="Browman"/>
In 1937, when Cummings retired and his former student, Emil Haury, took over as chair of the department, Haury initiated a change in its name to the Department of Anthropology, to reflect the breadth of scholarly activities it had come to encompass; he also aimed to expand it to include [[social anthropology]], [[applied anthropology]], and [[ethnology]].<ref>"[http://anthropology.arizona.edu/content/haury-and-department-anthropology History: Haury and the Department of Anthropology]." University of Arizona, School of Anthropology. Retrieved 2016-05-29.</ref> Haury asked Tanner to develop a course on Southwest ethnology and archaeology. From around this time her research interests began to focus on Southwest Indian arts, crafts, and ethnology.<ref name="Browman"/>


In the interest of her research Tanner traveled extensively throughout the Southwest; besides conducting archaeological studies she visited Native American craftspeople to observe them at work.<ref>Lytle-Webb (1989), p. 352.</ref> She was the author of several books and more than 100 articles published in scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers.<ref name="ContemporaryAuthors"/>
In the interest of her research Tanner traveled extensively throughout the Southwest; besides conducting archaeological studies she visited Native American craftspeople to observe them at work.<ref name="Lytle-Webb-p352"/> She was the author of several books and more than 100 articles published in scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers.<ref name="ContemporaryAuthors"/>

Reviewing her book ''Southwest Indian Craft Arts'' in 1969, archaeologist [[Neil Judd]] noted her expertise in the handicrafts of approximately two dozen ethnic groups of the region, and found that the book, with its meticulously accurate illustrations, successfully conveyed the changes in crafts over two generations.<ref>Judd, Neil M. (March 7, 1969). Review of Clara Lee Tanner, ''Southwest Indian Craft Arts'' (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1968). ''Science''. Vol. 163, Issue 3871, p. 1053. [[DOI: 10.1126/science.163.3871.1053]].</ref>


Clara Tanners and her husband John had one child, a daughter, Sandra Lee (married: Elers), born in 1940.<ref name="Lytle-Webb-p352"/><ref name="ContemporaryAuthors"/>
Clara Tanners and her husband John had one child, a daughter, Sandra Lee (married: Elers), born in 1940.<ref name="Lytle-Webb-p352"/><ref name="ContemporaryAuthors"/>

Revision as of 20:07, 29 May 2016

Clara Lee Tanner (May 28, 1905 – December 22, 1997)[1] was an anthropologist known for studies of the arts and crafts of American Indians of the Southwest.[2]

Biography

Born Clara Lee Fraps in Biscoe, North Carolina, the daughter of Joseph Conrad Fraps, a railroad machinist, and his wife, Clara Dargon Lee Fraps, she moved with her family to Tucson, Arizona, at the age of two.[2]

She graduated from the University of Arizona with a double major in English and archaeology, in 1927,[2] the first year that an archaeology major was offered. Her teacher in the latter field was Byron Cummings, who had steadily developed the department of archaeology at the university since his arrival in 1915.[3] With Cummings's encouragement, she went on to graduate study, and, in 1928, became one of the university's first three recipients of master's degrees in archaeology, along with fellow students Florence May Hawley and Emil Walter Haury.[2][3] In her master's thesis, initially entitled "Hopiland" and ultimately submitted under the title "Archaeological Survey of Arizona,"[4] Tanner undertook a survey of all known prehistoric habitations in the state.[5]

Fraps (Tanner) received an appointment as a lecturer in the archaeology department at the University of Arizona for the fall semester 1928, and continued to teach there over the course of her career, becoming an assistant professor in 1935, associate professor in 1957, and full professor in 1968.[6]

She took part in the university's summer excavation programs, and conducted archaeological and ethnological research at San Carlos and at the Tanque Verde ruins, a site of prehistoric dwellings.[4] She pursued further graduate work at the National University in Mexico City, in 1929, and the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, in 1934.[2]

In 1936 she married John Frederick Tanner, the proprietor of an Indian craft store in Tucson. Her involvement in her husband's work was one influence that shifted her research interests in the direction of regional cultural anthropology.[4][7]

In 1937, when Cummings retired and his former student, Emil Haury, took over as chair of the department, Haury initiated a change in its name to the Department of Anthropology, to reflect the breadth of scholarly activities it had come to encompass; he also aimed to expand it to include social anthropology, applied anthropology, and ethnology.[8] Haury asked Tanner to develop a course on Southwest ethnology and archaeology. From around this time her research interests began to focus on Southwest Indian arts, crafts, and ethnology.[4]

In the interest of her research Tanner traveled extensively throughout the Southwest; besides conducting archaeological studies she visited Native American craftspeople to observe them at work.[7] She was the author of several books and more than 100 articles published in scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers.[6]

Reviewing her book Southwest Indian Craft Arts in 1969, archaeologist Neil Judd noted her expertise in the handicrafts of approximately two dozen ethnic groups of the region, and found that the book, with its meticulously accurate illustrations, successfully conveyed the changes in crafts over two generations.[9]

Clara Tanners and her husband John had one child, a daughter, Sandra Lee (married: Elers), born in 1940.[7][6]

References

  1. ^ "Clara Lee Tanner (1905-1997)." Arizona Women's Hall of Fame (www.azwhf.org). Retrieved 2016-05-28.
  2. ^ a b c d e Lytle-Webb, Jamie (1989). "Clara Lee Fraps Tanner." In: Ute Gacs, et al. (Eds.), Women Anthropologists: Selected Biographies. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252060847. p. 350-354; here: p. 350.
  3. ^ a b Thompson, Raymond H. (2005). "Anthropology at the University of Arizona, 1893-2005." Journal of the Southwest. Vol. 47, no. 3, p. 327-74; here: p. 329-331. Available via JSTOR: [1] (registration required).
  4. ^ a b c d Browman, David L. (2013). Cultural Negotiations: The Role of Women in the Founding of Americanist Archaeology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9780803245471. p. 113.
  5. ^ The thesis is available online from the digital repository of the University of Arizona. Manuscript materials related to the earlier version, "Hopiland," are found in the Clara Lee Fraps Tanner Papers (pdf), at the Arizona Historical Society.
  6. ^ a b c "Clara L(ee) Tanner." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2001. Retrieved via Biography in Context database 2016-05-29.
  7. ^ a b c Lytle-Webb (1989), p. 352.
  8. ^ "History: Haury and the Department of Anthropology." University of Arizona, School of Anthropology. Retrieved 2016-05-29.
  9. ^ Judd, Neil M. (March 7, 1969). Review of Clara Lee Tanner, Southwest Indian Craft Arts (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1968). Science. Vol. 163, Issue 3871, p. 1053. DOI: 10.1126/science.163.3871.1053.

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