Exhibit: Women of Valor

Biography

Stories

The House on Taylor Road

The Story of the Forest

An Assignment

The Lady Professor at Home

Anthropologists/Peyoteros

Study Your Own

Chicken Foot Stew

Transformation

Life Not Death in Venice

Domestic Religion

The Story of the Shoe Box

Finding Rituals


Timeline

Bibliography

Artifact List

Artifacts Sorted by Source

 

Bibliography for Barbara Myerhoff Exhibit

De Mille, Richard, ed. The Don Juan Papers: Further Castaneda Controversies. Santa Barbara, California: Ross-Erikson, 1980.
 

Frank, Gelya. Venus on Wheels: Two Decades of Dialogue on Disability, Biography, and Being Female in America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
 

Frank, Gelya. "The Ethnographic Films of Barbara G. Myerhoff: Anthropology, Feminism, and the Politics of Jewish Identity." Women Writing Culture. Eds. Ruth Behar and Deborah A. Gordon. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. 207-232
 

Foldes, Steven. "In Memory of Barbara Myerhoff." Speech. Minnesota. 4 February 1985.
 

Gold, Herbert. "TV's Little Dramas." Harpers March 1977.
 

In Her Own Time. Dir. Lynne Littman. Videocassette. Direct Cinema Limited, 1986.
 

Jares, Sue Ellen. "Forget Academic Applause: Anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff's Research Won an Oscar." People Magazine 25 Jan. 1978: 93-4
 

Kasdan, Mary. "Barbara Myerhoff: Dedicated Student of the Living." Valley News Flair 10 June 1979: Section 4.
 

Kaminsky, Marc. "Story of the Shoe Box: On the Meanin and Practice of Transmitting Stories." Handbook of the Humanities and Aging. Eds. Thomast R. Cole, David D. Van Tassel, and Robert Kastenbaum. New York: Springer, 1992. 307-327.
 

Kaminsky, Marc. "Definitional Ceremonies: Depoliticizing and Reenchanting the Culture of Aging." Voices and Visions of Aging: Toward a Critical Gerontology. Eds. Thomas R. Cole, et al. Ne York: Springer, 1993. 257-274.
 

Letters of recommendation written for Myerhoff. Box 12, Barbara Myerhoff Papers, U of Southern California.
   

Leviton, Mark. "Numbering Their Days." University of Southern California Chronicle Oct. 1980: 23-26
 

Metzger, Deena. Writing for Your Life: A Guide and Companion to the Inner Worlds. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1992.
 

Metzger, Deena. "Forward: Barbara Myerhoff Storyteller." Unpublished essay.
 

Metzger, Deena. "The Ultimate Magician." Unpublished Essay.
 

Metzger, Deena. Memorial Speech. Los Angeles. 8 Jan. 1985.
 

Myerhoff, Barbara G. "After Fifteen Years of Feminism, Where is Women's Friendship?" Ms. June 1985: 85-87
 

---. "Balancing Between Worlds: The Shaman's Calling." Parabola 1.2 (1976): 6-13
 

---. "Bobbes and Zeydes: Old and New Roles for Elderly Jews. Women in Ritual and Symbolic Roles. Judith Hoch-Smith and Anita Spring, eds. New York: Plenum Press, 1978.
 

---. "The Huichol and the Quest for Paradise." Parabola 1.1 (1976): 22-29
 

---. In Her Own Time field notes, Barbara Myerhoff Papers microfilm, U of Southern California, reel 6:5.
 

---. "In Praise of Spoken Words." 23 November 1979. Box 32, folder 38, Barbara Myerhoff Papers, U of Southern California.
 

---. Letter to Ron. 5 February 1980. Academic/Friendship Correspondence, Box 55, Barbara Myerhoff Papers, U of Southern California.
 

---. Letter detailing research at Israel Levin Center, ts. Barbara Myerhoff Papers, U of Southern California.
 

---. "Life Passages." Smithsonian Institution Office of Folklife Programs. Celebration: A World of Art and Ritual. Ed. Victor Turner. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1982.
 

---. "Living with Death: Elderly Venice Jews Accept and Endure." Interview with Hynda Rudd. Los Angeles Herald Examiner 15 March 1979: A1+
 

---. "Maria Sabina and the Saint Children." Parabola 7.1 (1982): 92-95
 

---. Myerhoff speaking at a conference about the rituals of the Passover sedar. Audiotape. Barbara Myerhoff Papers, University Archives, U of Southern California, Los Angeles.
 

---. "Notes on Living with a Shaman: the Shaman as Houseguest." 10 May 1971. Barbara Myerhoff Papers microfilm, U of Southern California, reel 13.
 

---. "Notes on Peyote Session." Barbara Myerhoff Papers microfilm, U of Southern California, reel 13.
 

---. Number Our Days. New York: Dutton, 1978.
 

---. Number Our Days field notes, Barbara Myerhoff Papers microfilm, U of Southern California, reel 5.
 

---. "NYU: May 24—June 5, 1982: Self-creation through narrative." Notes, Box 59, NYU course folder, Barbara Myerhoff papers, U of Southern California.
 

---. "Of Course." field notes Nov. 1981/Dec.1 1981. Nod Scrapbook Box 54, Barbara Myerhoff Papers, U of Southern California.
 

---. Peyote Hunt: the Sacred Journey of the Huichol Indians. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1974.
 

---. "Peyote and the Mystic Vision." Art of the Huichol Indians. Ed. Kathleen Berrin. San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1978. 56-70.
 

---. "Pilgrimage to Meron.:Inner and Outer Peregrinations." Creativity/Anthropology. Eds. Smadar Lavie, Kirin Narayan, and Renato Rosaldo. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993. 211-222.
 

---. "The Older Woman as Androgyne." Parabola 3.4(1978): 74-89.
 

---. "Flying the Children to Wirikuta." Parabola 9.3 (1984):86-9
 

---. Rachel discusses domestic religion with Myerhoff at the Israel Levin Senior Center. Audiotape. Barbara Myerhoff Papers, University Archives, U of Southern California, Los Angeles.
 

---. Remembered Lives: the Work of Ritual, Storytelling, and Growing Older. Ed. Marc Kaminsky. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992.
 

---. "Re-membered Lives." Parabola 5.1 (1980): 74-77.
 

---. Research on women's friendship. Barbara Myerhoff Papers microfilm, U of Southern California, reel 12.
 

---. "The Revolution as a Trip: Symbol and Paradox." The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 395 (1971): 105-16
 

---. "The Ritual Telling of the Great Story that Shapes Individual Lives." Transcript of lecture, ts, box 55, folder 5. Barbara Myerhoff Papers, U of Southern California.
 

---. Submission to Dart Award Program Special Award for Academic Innovation. Ts. 15 June 1970, Box 12, folder 1, Barbara Myerhoff Papers, U of Southern California.
 

---. "Telling One's Story." Center Magazine 8.2 (1980): 22-40
 

---. "USC in May: The Opening of the University." Youth and Society 3.3 (1972): 353-74
 

Myerhoff, Barbara G. and Elinor Lenz. The Feminization of America: How Women's Values Are Changing Our Public and Private Lives. Los Angeles: J.P. Tarcher, 1985.
 

Myerhoff, Barbara G. and Deena Metzger. "Dear Diary." Chrysalis 7 (Winter, 1979): 39-49.
 

---. "Social Change and the Culture of Women," Ts. April 1979. Box 9, folder 13, Barbara Myerhoff Papers, U of Southern California.
 

Myerhoff, Barbara G. and Sally Falk Moore, eds. Symbol and Politics in Communal Ideology: Cases and Questions. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1975.
 

Myerhoff, Barbara and Lee Myerhoff. "Field Observations of Middle Class Gangs." Social Forces 42.3 (1964):328-36.
 

Myerhoff, Barbara G. and Jay Ruby. Forward: A Crack in the Mirror: Reflexive Perspectives in Anthropology. Ed. Jay Ruby. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982.
 

Myerhoff, Barbara G. and Andrei Simic, eds. Life's Career-Aging: Cultural Variations on Growing Old. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1978.
 

Myerhoff, Barbara G. and Virginia Tufte, eds. Changing Images of the Family. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979.
 

"Myerhoff, KCET Look at 'Indomitable Survivors.'" B'nai B'rith Messenger 24 Sept. 1976: 13.
 

Number Our Days. Dir. Lynne Littman. Videocassette. Direct Cinema Limited, 1983.
 

Number Our Days. Playbill Issue of Performing Arts (1981).
 

Prell, Riv-Ellen. "The Double Frame of Life History in the Work of Barbara Myerhoff." Interpreting Women's Lives: Feminist Theory and Personal Narratives. Eds. The Personal Narratives Group, Joy Webster Barbre, et al. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. 241-258.
 

Prell, Riv-Ellen. "Barbara Myerhoff." Jewish Women in America. Vol. 2. Eds. Paula E. Hyman and Deborah Dash Moore. New York: Routledge, 1997. 958-60.
 

Press clipping on Myerhoff's early research on Youth and Family from 1965-6. Box 12, folder 1, Barbara Myerhoff Papers, U of Southern California, including:
 

Samuel, Edith, ed. Growing Older. Issue of Keeping Posted 27.6 (1982): 1-15.
 

Silberman, Charles E. "A Proper Way to Live." Rev. of Number Our Days by Barbara Myerhoff. New York Times 1 April 1979: 11+.
 

Strimling, Arthur. All That Our Eyes Have Witnessed. Unpublished script. 1988.
 

Zuanich, Barbra. "Wonderful World of Old People." Los Angeles Herald Examiner 20 May 1977: C1+.
 


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For a bibliography: Jewish Women's Archive. "JWA - Barbara Myerhoff - Bibliography." <http://jwa.org/exhibits/wov/myerhoff/bib.html>.

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