| Description | This file contains photocopies of fellowship and funding applications submitted by Maya Deren to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Rockefeller Fellowship, and Motion Pictures for her cinematic projects. In these applications, Deren outlines her filmmaking process, aesthetics, and her ambition to work in Haiti. Additional documents explore topics in anthropology and psychology, including 'The Psychopathology of Hysteria' (with notes on Freud), 'The Myth of Primitive Psychology' by Bronisław Malinowski, as well as a list of Rada rites, a timeline, and notes on Haitian Vodou. |