Records of the Research Institute for the Study of Man's (RISM) Medical and Social Anthropological Research in Bolivia
1935-2006, inclusive
; 1964-1967, bulk
Research Institute for the Study of Man
Materials are in English and Spanish.
The Records of the Research Institute for the Study of Man's Medical and Social Anthropological Research in Bolivia documents the work of anthropological and epidemiological teams in Bolivia and dates between 1935 and 2006, with the bulk of the material dating between 1964 and 1967. Material in the collection includes correspondence, accounting records, indexed field notes, laboratory processing records, surveys and questionnaires, maps, photographs, and films. The bulk of the collection consists of field notes taken by investigators in the course of their work, indexed cards created from these notes, and surveys and questionnaires conducted by the investigators. The field notes contain detailed observations of the day to day activities of the investigators, including their first impressions of the communities in which they lived, their interactions with residents of the communities, and maps and drawings of the communities. The indexed cards consist of photocopies of these notes that were organized by coded topics and cut and pasted onto cards according to these codes. The questionnaires include information about the health of the members of the communities, their living arrangements, and their opinions of social and political structures within the community. The surveys include information about sanitation, water supply, and livestock in the communities. Other material in the collection includes laboratory results of blood typing tests and blood and stool sampling for infectious diseases, maps of the six communities studied, census data for the six communities, photographs taken by the investigators, reports and papers written using the data generated through the project, and material created for a 1997 exhibit about the project and its records.
Ulla S. Holmequist and Ani Rivera. Processed with new finding aid by Emilyn L. Brown and Hillina Seife, June 2006.
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