RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

248 THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
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Internationa] Institute of African Languages and Cultures,
London, England. General budget $50,000*
Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland,
London, England. General budget 1,000*
f Academic orfiscalyear 1934-35.
* Academic orfiscalyear 1935-36.
Several new appropriations were made in 1935
for the liquidation of work to which the Foundation
had formerly contributed. The International
Institute of African Languages and Cultures
received a final grant of {$60,000 for use over a
three-year period ending June 30, 1939. The institute
has concentrated its research program
upon the problems of colonial administration
which result from the rapid changes taking place
in the economic, social, and cultural life of African
peoples. Studies have been supported or
initiated in fourteen different African territories.
Plans have been worked out in full agreement
with colonial authorities, who have accorded an
unusual degree of support to the institute's program.
Even during the financial crisis subventions
have been made by colonial governments
and in certain cases are now
being increased.
Thirteen volumes based upon field studies have
been published, and a practical orthography for
at least sixty African languages has been worked
out and adopted. The institute has widened and
intensified government and public interest in the
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