Marjorie Grant Whiting Papers
The Marjorie Grant Whiting papers came to the Archives in Hamilton Library at the University of Hawaiʻi in February 2004 as a gift from the Marjorie Grant Whiting (MGW) Center for Humanity, Arts and the Environment. Dr. Whiting performed some of her important research on cycads, a traditional food of the Chamorros of Guam, at the Lyon Arboretum of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
The papers came in fourteen standard record center boxes along with some additional photographic materials. As processing proceeds, the number of containers will change. Several files of research notes, for example, will be stored in smaller, 8 x 5 x 12 inch boxes; notebooks may be stored in other sized boxes. The final extent of the collection had not yet been determined as of Spring 2009.
Dr. Whiting performed research into the health affects of various foods in the diets of indigenous peoples in various areas throughout the world. She worked on projects dealing with several peoples of Africa. She worked extensively on the toxicity of cycads on the Chamorro people of Guam. She also worked among peoples of southeast Asia.
The emerging fields of study related to indigenous/local knowledge in relation to nutrition and sustainability are primary areas of research supported by the MGW Center. Providing a record of the research materials produced by Dr. Whiting would thus support cultural, scientific and nutrition education. In addition to creating a standard inventory, biographical statement, and scope note of the collection in a finding aid, a project was begun to create full text scans of selected documents, including Whiting’s bibliography Neurotoxicity of Cycads: An Annotated Bibliography for the Years 1829 – 1989 published in the journal Lyonia, the journal of the Lyon Arboretum.
Inventory of Research Notes:
- Composite Inventory
- Boxes 1-3
- Boxes 4-6
- Box 7
- Box 8
- Box 9
- Box 10
- Box 11
- Box 12a
- Box 12b
- Box 13
- Box 14
- Box 15a
- Box 15b
- Box 16
- Box 17
- Box 18
- Box 19
- Box 20
- Box 21
- Box 22
- Flat Box 1
Please note that description for this collection is not complete.
