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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Stuart A. Marks Collection on Hunting in North Carolina #4309, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Stuart Marks of Raleigh, N.C., in 1981-1983 (Acc. 082051) and 1990 (Acc. 090021 and 090134).

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• Hunting--North Carolina.
• Marks, Stuart A., 1939-
• Recreation--North Carolina.

• Stuart Alexander and Sandy Cole Marks Collection #SC-MS-319, William Madison Randall Library, University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

Stuart A. Marks is a white biologist and anthropologist who was a Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Sciences at St. Andrews College, Laurinburg, N.C from 1970-1983. His work has mainly focused on wildlife management, conservation, and human development in Africa. Marks was born in Wilmington, N.C. in 1939 and spent most of his youth living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo at the American Presbyterian Congo Mission station, Lubondai. After completing his undergraduate degree in Zoology from North Carolina State University, Marks earned a Masters in Wildlife and Quantitative Methods and a Ph.D. in Ecology and Anthropology from Michigan State University. Marks' dissertational work in Zambia with the Valley Bisa culture has been the basis for much of his personal and professional research. Books he authored include Large Mammals and a Brave People (1976); The Imperial Lion (1984); Discordant Village Voices (2014); and Life as a Hunt: Thresholds of Identities and Illusions on an African Landscape (2016). He also wrote Southern Hunting in Black and White: Nature, History and Rituals in a Carolina Community (1991), a book on Southern hunting in the United States from colonialist, or "frontier times", through the antebellum era to the present day.

Audiocassette recordings and typed transcripts of oral history interviews conducted by Stuart A. Marks, a white biologist, anthropologist, and professor. Stuart A. Marks compiled the recordings while preparing for his book, Southern Hunting in Black and White: Nature, History and Rituals in a Carolina Community (1991). The interviews, dating from the 1970s and early 1980s, are mostly with North Carolina hunters. Of particular note is an interview with Lumbee educator and preacher, D. F. Lowry. The collection also includes supporting documentation, including Stuart A. Marks' research notes and other materials on hunting that he compiled as part of the book project.

• Audiocassettes (C-4309/1-88)