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'''Harold Colyer Conklin''' (April 27, 1926 – February 18, 2016) was an American [[Anthropology|anthropologist]] who conducted extensive [[ethnoecology|ethnoecological]] and [[Linguistics|linguistic]] field research in [[Southeast Asia]] (particularly the [[Philippines]]) and was a pioneer of [[ethnoscience]], documenting [[indigenous people|indigenous]] ways of understanding and knowing the world.<ref name="Yale01">{{cite web |url=http://www.yale.edu/seas/Conklin.htm |title=Harold C. Conklin |publisher=[[Yale University]] Council on Southeast Asian Studies |accessdate=2015-09-27}}</ref>
'''Harold Colyer Conklin''' (April 27, 1926 – February 18, 2016) was an American [[Anthropology|anthropologist]] who conducted extensive [[ethnoecology|ethnoecological]] and [[Linguistics|linguistic]] field research in [[Southeast Asia]] (particularly the [[Philippines]]) and was a pioneer of [[ethnoscience]], documenting indigenous ways of understanding and knowing the world.<ref name="Yale01">{{cite web |url=http://www.yale.edu/seas/Conklin.htm |title=Harold C. Conklin |publisher=[[Yale University]] Council on Southeast Asian Studies |access-date=September 27, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151001000349/http://www.yale.edu/seas/Conklin.htm |archive-date=October 1, 2015 }}</ref>


==Early life and education==
== Early life and education ==


Conklin was born in [[Easton, Pennsylvania]] in 1926<ref name=USinAsia>{{cite book |last=Shavit |first=David |title=The United States in Asia: A Historical Dictionary |year=1990 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |page=108|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IWdZTaJdc6UC&pg=PA108&lpg=PA108}}</ref> but moved before the age of one to his father's hometown of [[Patchogue, New York]]. Interested in [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] culture from an early age, he was adopted by the [[St. Regis Mohawk Reservation|St. Regis Mohawk tribe]] of the [[Akwesasne]] (Mohawk) Nation in 1939, when he was in eighth grade. While in high school, he pursued his interest in anthropology by serving as a volunteer at the [[American Museum of Natural History]] under anthropology curator [[Clark Wissler]].<ref name=AnnRev>{{cite journal |last=Conklin |first=Harold C. |title=Language, Culture, and Environment: My Early Years |journal=Annual Review of Anthropology |volume=27 |year=1998 |pages=xiii-xxx |url=http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev.anthro.27.1.0 |doi=10.1146/annurev.anthro.27.1.0}}</ref>
Conklin was born in [[Easton, Pennsylvania]] in 1926<ref name=USinAsia>{{cite book |last=Shavit |first=David |title=The United States in Asia: A Historical Dictionary |year=1990 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |page=108|isbn=978-0-313-26788-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IWdZTaJdc6UC&pg=PA108}}</ref> but moved before the age of one to his father's hometown of [[Patchogue, New York]]. Interested in [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] culture from an early age, he was adopted by the [[St. Regis Mohawk Reservation|St. Regis Mohawk tribe]] of the [[Akwesasne]] (Mohawk) Nation in 1939, when he was in eighth grade. While in high school, he pursued his interest in anthropology by serving as a volunteer at the [[American Museum of Natural History]] under anthropology curator [[Clark Wissler]].<ref name=AnnRev>{{cite journal |last=Conklin |first=Harold C. |title=Language, Culture, and Environment: My Early Years |journal=Annual Review of Anthropology |volume=27 |year=1998 |pages=xiii-xxx |doi=10.1146/annurev.anthro.27.1.0|doi-access= }}</ref>


Conklin entered the [[University of California, Berkeley]] as an undergraduate in 1943, studying with anthropologists [[Robert Lowie]], [[Alfred L. Kroeber]], and [[Edward W. Gifford]], as well as geographer [[Carl O. Sauer]]. He attended Berkeley for one year before being inducted into the [[United States Army]] in July 1944. After serving briefly in [[New Guinea]] and [[Leyte]], he served with the [[158th Infantry Regiment (United States)|158th Infantry Regiment]] on the island of [[Luzon]] in the [[Philippines]].<ref name=AnnRev/>
Conklin entered the [[University of California, Berkeley]] as an undergraduate in 1943, studying with anthropologists [[Robert Lowie]], [[Alfred L. Kroeber]], and [[Edward W. Gifford]], as well as geographer [[Carl O. Sauer]]. He attended Berkeley for one year before being inducted into the [[United States Army]] in July 1944. After serving briefly in [[New Guinea]] and [[Leyte]], he served with the [[158th Infantry Regiment (United States)|158th Infantry Regiment]] on the island of [[Luzon]] in the [[Philippines]].<ref name=AnnRev />


When [[World War II]] came to an end, Conklin continued serving with the Army in the Philippines until his discharge in August 1946. With the support of the Berkeley anthropology department he remained in the Philippines to conduct fieldwork for a year and a half. In 1947, he traveled to [[Mindoro]] and [[Palawan]] for a linguistic and cultural survey, spending time with the [[Hanunó'o language|Hanunóo]], an upland tribe in Mindoro. In [[Manila]], he met with the tropical botanist [[Harley Harris Bartlett]], who instructed him in botanical research and provided him with funds to create an ethnobotanical collection from Palawan.<ref name=AnnRev/>
When [[World War II]] came to an end, Conklin continued serving with the Army in the Philippines until his discharge in August 1946. With the support of the Berkeley anthropology department he remained in the Philippines to conduct fieldwork for a year and a half. In 1947, he traveled to [[Mindoro]] and [[Palawan]] for a linguistic and cultural survey, spending time with the [[Hanunó'o language|Hanunóo]], an upland tribe in Mindoro. In [[Manila]], he met with the tropical botanist [[Harley Harris Bartlett]], who instructed him in botanical research and provided him with funds to create an ethnobotanical collection from Palawan.<ref name=AnnRev />


Conklin returned to Berkeley in 1948 and finished his undergraduate work in 1950. He then started graduate school in anthropology at [[Yale University]]. At Yale he studied with [[Floyd Lounsbury]] (who became his dissertation advisor), [[Bernard Bloch]], and [[Isidore Dyen]], among others. His fellow graduate students included [[William C. Sturtevant]] and [[Charles Frake]], who shared his interest in language, culture, and cognition. He conducted fieldwork among the Hanunóo in Mindoro from 1952 to 1954, completing his dissertation in 1955.<ref name=AnnRev/>
Conklin returned to Berkeley in 1948 and finished his undergraduate work in 1950. He then started graduate school in anthropology at [[Yale University]]. At Yale he studied with [[Floyd Lounsbury]] (who became his dissertation advisor), [[Bernard Bloch (linguist)|Bernard Bloch]], and [[Isidore Dyen]], among others. His fellow graduate students included [[William C. Sturtevant]] and [[Charles Frake]], who shared his interest in language, culture, and cognition. He conducted fieldwork among the Hanunóo in Mindoro from 1952 to 1954, completing his dissertation in 1955.<ref name=AnnRev />


==Career overview==
== Career ==
In 1955, Conklin accepted a teaching position in anthropology at [[Columbia University]]. There he pursued his research interests in language, culture, cognition, kinship, and folk classification. He continued publishing his analysis of the Hanunóo until 1961, when he moved his research to [[Ifugao]] in northern Luzon, where he would make a series of fieldwork trips for the next two decades.<ref name=Folklife>{{cite web |first=Judy |last=Ng |year=2010 |title=Harold C. Conklin Philippine Collection |publisher=[[American Folklife Center]], [[Library of Congress]] |url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/afc/eadxmlafc/eadpdfafc/2007/af007002.pdf |accessdate=September 27, 2015}}</ref>


Conklin joined the faculty of the Department of Anthropology at [[Yale University]] in 1962. At Yale his research areas included the ethnology and ecology of tropical forested areas of the Pacific Basin.<ref name=Folklife /> Based on his extensive research, Conklin built one of the largest ethnographic collections from the Philippines at Yale's [[Peabody Museum of Natural History]], where he was Curator of Anthropology from 1974 until his retirement in 1996.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/abcde/conklin_harold.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100603185614/https://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/abcde/conklin_harold.html |archive-date=June 3, 2010 |title=Harold C. Conklin |publisher=EMuseum, [[Minnesota State University, Mankato]]}}</ref> Nearly 1,500 objects that he collected in the Philippines have been acquired by the [[American Museum of Natural History]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/from-the-collections-posts/wooden-ifugao-figures-from-anthropology-s-philippines-collection |title=Wooden Ifugao Figures from Anthropology's Philippines Collection |publisher=[[American Museum of Natural History]] |date=January 28, 2013 |accessdate=January 2, 2016}}</ref>
In 1955, Conklin accepted a teaching position in anthropology at [[Columbia University]]. There he pursued his research interests in language, culture, cognition, kinship, and folk classification. He continued publishing his analysis of the Hanunóo until 1961, when he moved his research to [[Ifugao]] in northern Luzon, where he would make a series of fieldwork trips for the next two decades.<ref name=Folklife>{{cite web |first=Judy |last=Ng |year=2010 |title=Harold C. Conklin Philippine Collection |publisher=[[American Folklife Center]], [[Library of Congress]] |url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/afc/eadxmlafc/eadpdfafc/2007/af007002.pdf |accessdate=2015-09-27}}</ref>


Conklin died on February 18, 2016, at the age of 89.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=489634281161532&id=309766335814995 |title=Death announcement |publisher=David Skelly, [[Peabody Museum of Natural History]] |date=February 18, 2016}}</ref> Conklin's wife, Jean M. Conklin (married 1954) died in 2008. They are survived by their sons, Bruce R. Conklin of San Francisco, CA, and Mark W. Conklin of Park City UT.
Conklin joined the faculty of the Department of Anthropology at [[Yale University]] in 1962. At Yale his research areas included the ethnology and ecology of tropical forested areas of the Pacific Basin.<ref name=Folklife/> Based on his extensive research, Conklin built one of the largest ethnographic collections from the Philippines at Yale's [[Peabody Museum of Natural History]], where he was Curator of Anthropology from 1974 until his retirement in 1996.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/abcde/conklin_harold.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100603185614/https://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/abcde/conklin_harold.html |archive-date=2010-06-03 |title=Harold C. Conklin |publisher=EMuseum, [[Minnesota State University, Mankato]]}}</ref> Nearly 1,500 objects that he collected in the Philippines have been acquired by the [[American Museum of Natural History]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/from-the-collections-posts/wooden-ifugao-figures-from-anthropology-s-philippines-collection |title=Wooden Ifugao Figures from Anthropology's Philippines Collection |publisher=[[American Museum of Natural History]] |date=2013-01-28 |accessdate=2016-01-02}}</ref> Conklin died on February 18, 2016 at the age of 89.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=489634281161532&id=309766335814995 |title=Death announcement |publisher=David Skelly, [[Peabody Museum of Natural History]] |date=2016-02-18}}</ref>


==Publications==
== Publications ==


Some of Harold Conklin's publications include:
Some of Harold Conklin's publications include:
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* (1986) "Symbolism and Beyond. Hanunóo Color Categories" ''Journal of Anthropological Research'', Vol. 42, No. 3, pg. 441-446.
* (1986) "Symbolism and Beyond. Hanunóo Color Categories" ''Journal of Anthropological Research'', Vol. 42, No. 3, pg. 441-446.


== Online material ==
==Material on-line==
* [http://varenne.tc.columbia.edu/bib/texts/conklharl49bamblite.pdf Conklin, Harold. C (1949) "Bamboo Literacy on Mindoro" ''Pacific Discovery'' Vol 3. Pg 4-11] <small>Accessed 12 August 2009 </small>
* [http://varenne.tc.columbia.edu/bib/texts/conklharl49bamblite.pdf Conklin, Harold. C (1949) "Bamboo Literacy on Mindoro" ''Pacific Discovery'' Vol 3. Pg 4-11] <small>Accessed August 12, 2009 </small>
* [http://www.fao.org/docrep/x5385e/x5385e05.htm#hanunóo Conklin, Harold. C (1957) "Hanunóo agriculture: An Example of Shifting Cultivation in the Philippines" ''Unasylva''. Vol. 11, No. 4] <small>Accessed 12 August 2009 </small>
* [http://www.fao.org/docrep/x5385e/x5385e05.htm#hanunóo Conklin, Harold. C (1957) "Hanunóo agriculture: An Example of Shifting Cultivation in the Philippines" ''Unasylva''. Vol. 11, No. 4] <small>Accessed August 12, 2009 </small>


==See also==
== See also ==


* [[Contrast set]]
* [[Contrast set]]
* [[Ethnobiology]]
* [[Ethnobiology]]


==References==
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
{{Reflist}}


==External links==
== External links ==
* [http://www.upb.edu.ph/~cnlarchive/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21:bibliographical-note&catid=5:harold-conklin&Itemid=6 "Bibliographical Note: Harold Conklin" Cordillera Northern Luzon Archive]<small>Accessed 10 August 2009</small>
* [http://www.upb.edu.ph/~cnlarchive/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21:bibliographical-note&catid=5:harold-conklin&Itemid=6 "Bibliographical Note: Harold Conklin" Cordillera Northern Luzon Archive]<small>Accessed August 10, 2009</small>
* [http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/abcde/conklin_harold.html "Harold C. Conklin" Minnesota State University]<small>Accessed 10 August 2009</small>
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20081201140545/http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/abcde/conklin_harold.html "Harold C. Conklin" Minnesota State University]<small>Accessed August 10, 2009</small>
* [http://www.yale.edu/anthropology/people/hconklin.html "Harold C. Conklin, Professor Emeritus in Anthropology (Ph.D. Yale University, 1955)" Yale University Anthropology Faculty]<small>Accessed 10 August 2009</small>
* [http://www.yale.edu/anthropology/people/hconklin.html "Harold C. Conklin, Professor Emeritus in Anthropology (Ph.D. Yale University, 1955)" Yale University Anthropology Faculty]<small>Accessed August 10, 2009</small>
* [http://classes.yale.edu/03-04/anth500b/projects/project_sites/00_Neidel/Biography.htm "Biography" Yale University]<small>Accessed 10 August 2009</small>
* [http://classes.yale.edu/03-04/anth500b/projects/project_sites/00_Neidel/Biography.htm "Biography" Yale University]<small>Accessed August 10, 2009</small>
*[http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Conklin,+Harold+C.,+2007,+Fine+Description:+Ethnographic+and...-a0201548900 Review of Conklin, Harold C., (2007) ''Fine Description: Ethnographic and Linguistic Essays''] <small>Accessed 10 August 2009</small>
*[http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Conklin,+Harold+C.,+2007,+Fine+Description:+Ethnographic+and...-a0201548900 Review of Conklin, Harold C., (2007) ''Fine Description: Ethnographic and Linguistic Essays''] <small>Accessed August 10, 2009</small>
* [http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1956 Harold C. Conklin Papers (MS 1956).] Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.

* [http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/conklin-harold.pdf Michael R. Dove and Patrick V. Kirch, "Harold C. Conklin", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (2018)]
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Harold C. Conklin
Born
Harold Colyer Conklin

(1926-04-27)April 27, 1926
DiedFebruary 18, 2016(2016-02-18) (aged 89)
OccupationEducator
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Yale University
Academic work
DisciplineAnthropologist
InstitutionsColumbia University
Yale University
Doctoral studentsAlfred W. McCoy (1977)

Harold Colyer Conklin (April 27, 1926 – February 18, 2016) was an American anthropologist who conducted extensive ethnoecological and linguistic field research in Southeast Asia (particularly the Philippines) and was a pioneer of ethnoscience, documenting indigenous ways of understanding and knowing the world.[1]

Early life and education[edit]

Conklin was born in Easton, Pennsylvania in 1926[2] but moved before the age of one to his father's hometown of Patchogue, New York. Interested in Native American culture from an early age, he was adopted by the St. Regis Mohawk tribe of the Akwesasne (Mohawk) Nation in 1939, when he was in eighth grade. While in high school, he pursued his interest in anthropology by serving as a volunteer at the American Museum of Natural History under anthropology curator Clark Wissler.[3]

Conklin entered the University of California, Berkeley as an undergraduate in 1943, studying with anthropologists Robert Lowie, Alfred L. Kroeber, and Edward W. Gifford, as well as geographer Carl O. Sauer. He attended Berkeley for one year before being inducted into the United States Army in July 1944. After serving briefly in New Guinea and Leyte, he served with the 158th Infantry Regiment on the island of Luzon in the Philippines.[3]

When World War II came to an end, Conklin continued serving with the Army in the Philippines until his discharge in August 1946. With the support of the Berkeley anthropology department he remained in the Philippines to conduct fieldwork for a year and a half. In 1947, he traveled to Mindoro and Palawan for a linguistic and cultural survey, spending time with the Hanunóo, an upland tribe in Mindoro. In Manila, he met with the tropical botanist Harley Harris Bartlett, who instructed him in botanical research and provided him with funds to create an ethnobotanical collection from Palawan.[3]

Conklin returned to Berkeley in 1948 and finished his undergraduate work in 1950. He then started graduate school in anthropology at Yale University. At Yale he studied with Floyd Lounsbury (who became his dissertation advisor), Bernard Bloch, and Isidore Dyen, among others. His fellow graduate students included William C. Sturtevant and Charles Frake, who shared his interest in language, culture, and cognition. He conducted fieldwork among the Hanunóo in Mindoro from 1952 to 1954, completing his dissertation in 1955.[3]

Career[edit]

In 1955, Conklin accepted a teaching position in anthropology at Columbia University. There he pursued his research interests in language, culture, cognition, kinship, and folk classification. He continued publishing his analysis of the Hanunóo until 1961, when he moved his research to Ifugao in northern Luzon, where he would make a series of fieldwork trips for the next two decades.[4]

Conklin joined the faculty of the Department of Anthropology at Yale University in 1962. At Yale his research areas included the ethnology and ecology of tropical forested areas of the Pacific Basin.[4] Based on his extensive research, Conklin built one of the largest ethnographic collections from the Philippines at Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History, where he was Curator of Anthropology from 1974 until his retirement in 1996.[5] Nearly 1,500 objects that he collected in the Philippines have been acquired by the American Museum of Natural History.[6]

Conklin died on February 18, 2016, at the age of 89.[7] Conklin's wife, Jean M. Conklin (married 1954) died in 2008. They are survived by their sons, Bruce R. Conklin of San Francisco, CA, and Mark W. Conklin of Park City UT.

Publications[edit]

Some of Harold Conklin's publications include:

  • (1955a) "Hanunóo Color Categories" Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, Vol. 11, No. 4. pg. 339-344
  • (1955b) The Relation of Hanunoo Culture to the Plant World
  • (1956) "Tagalog Speech Disguise" Language, Vol. 32, No. 1. pg. 136-139.
  • (1957) Hanunoo Agriculture
  • (1959a) "Facts and Comments. Ecological Interpretations and Plant Domestication" American Antiquity, Vol. 25, No. 2. pg. 260-262
  • (1959b) "Linguistic Play in Its Cultural Context" Language, Vol. 35, No. 4. pg. 631-636.
  • (1963) The Study of Shifting Cultivation. Washington: Technical Publications
  • (1967) An Ethnoecological Approach to Shifting Agriculture
  • (1980) Ethnographic Atlas of Ifugao: A Study of Environment, Culture, and Society in northern Luzon
  • (1986) "Symbolism and Beyond. Hanunóo Color Categories" Journal of Anthropological Research, Vol. 42, No. 3, pg. 441-446.

Online material[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Harold C. Conklin". Yale University Council on Southeast Asian Studies. Archived from the original on October 1, 2015. Retrieved September 27, 2015.
  2. ^ Shavit, David (1990). The United States in Asia: A Historical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 108. ISBN 978-0-313-26788-8.
  3. ^ a b c d Conklin, Harold C. (1998). "Language, Culture, and Environment: My Early Years". Annual Review of Anthropology. 27: xiii–xxx. doi:10.1146/annurev.anthro.27.1.0.
  4. ^ a b Ng, Judy (2010). "Harold C. Conklin Philippine Collection" (PDF). American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. Retrieved September 27, 2015.
  5. ^ "Harold C. Conklin". EMuseum, Minnesota State University, Mankato. Archived from the original on June 3, 2010.
  6. ^ "Wooden Ifugao Figures from Anthropology's Philippines Collection". American Museum of Natural History. January 28, 2013. Retrieved January 2, 2016.
  7. ^ "Death announcement". David Skelly, Peabody Museum of Natural History. February 18, 2016.

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