John V. Murra Papers
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John V. Murra fought in the Spanish Civil War as a volunteer in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, 1937-1939. He also served as research assistant on Professor John Dollard's study "Fear and Courage under Battle Conditions" which collected responses from U.S. volunteers about to their reactions in battle (see Dollard Research Files collection, ALBA #122). Murra obtained a PhD in anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1953, in the field of Latin American culture. He went on to have a distinguished career teaching at various American universities, ending up at Cornell. This collection consists of his International Brigade identity card (carnet militaire), and reprints of some of his articles on South America, mostly from the 1980s.
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Materials are open to researchers. Please contact the Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives for more information and to schedule an appointment, tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu or 212-998-2630.
Conditions Governing Use
Any rights (including copyright and related rights to publicity and privacy) held by the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA), were transferred to New York University in November 2000 by the ALBA Board of Governors. Permission to publish or reproduce materials in this collection must be secured from the Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. For more information, contact tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu or 212-998-2630.
