NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE 1930s. The Hopi Child

Charlottesville: D. Appleton-Century Co., Inc., for the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, University of Virginia, 1940. First edition.

LANDMARK STUDY OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT IN ARIZONA PUEBLOS IN 1930s--SIGNED BY AUTHOR.

15x23 cm hardcover, burgundy cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, i-xi, 204 pp, 8 photographic plates, bibliography, index. Early inscription and ownership stamp from Patsy White Ballou, 1941. SIGNED by author on half-title page. Very good in custom archival mylar cover.

WAYNE DENNIS (1905-1976) was known as one of the most distinguished psychologists and child development specialists of his generation. He retired in 1970 from academic life as professor emeritus of Brooklyn College, where he was professor and chair of the Department of Psychology from 1951 to 1962. He last directed the doctoral program in general psychology at the City University of New York from 1962-1964. Throughout his academic career, Dr. Dennis studied and researched abroad, most notably as Visiting Professor at the American University of Beirut (1955-56; 1958-59; 1964-65; 1974-75). There he compiled data for most of his important studies, combining his training in psychology and cultural anthropology. It was on a side trip to Tehran, Iran, during his first visit to the Middle East that he discovered the orphanages that would become the subjects of his field work on child development. It was also here that he began his many cross-cultural studies of performance on the Goodenaugh Draw-a-man test, which he ultimately combined into a set of mean IQs of typical children from some 50 cultures around the world. Wayne Dennis Papers located at National Library of Medicine CollectionIdentifier: MS C 332.