Series V. Ethnographic Research Records, 1964-1989, inclusive
Extent
Scope and Contents note
The materials in this series relate to the ethnographic study undertaken between 1964 and 1967. The final report was published in 1969 as Changing Rural Bolivia. The report was republished in 1971 by Oxford University Press as Changing Rural Society. The materials have been divided into five subseries.
Arrangement
This series has been arranged into six subseries, as follows:
Subseries A. Changing Rural Society Material
Subseries B. Community Study Outline (CSO)/ Bosquejo para el estudio de las Communidades
Subseries C. Field Notes / Notas de Campo
Subseries D. Codes
Subseries E. Community Census/ Censo de la Comunidad
Subseries F. Household Structure Diagram/Bosquejo de Casa
Subseries A. Changing Rural Society Material, 1964-1989, inclusive
Extent
Scope and Contents
This subseries contains a published version of the report from 1969, drafts and correspondence regarding the republishing, and correspondence and curricula vitae for people applying/selected to work on the Bolivia project as well as other projects in the 1970s and 1980s.
Changing Rural Bolivia -- Drafts and Correspondence, 1964-1989, inclusive
Language of Materials
Subseries B. Community Study Outline (CSO)/ Bosquejo para el estudio de las Communidades, 1964
Extent
Scope and Contents
This subseries consists of the Community Study Outline (CSO)/Bosquejo para el estudio de las communidades. The CSO is an outline that was used to standardize and index the information recorded in the field notes generated by each anthropologist. The one exception is Compi, where the anthropologists were already present in the community conducting their own research. These forms document the information in the card files in Subseries C. Field Notes / Notas de Campo filed under specific numbers documenting geographic environment, population demographics, history and development, institutional systems, the sociopolitical system, community and private health, and the Peace Corps program.
Community Study Outline, 1964
Subseries C. Field Notes / Notas de Campo, 1964-1967, inclusive
Extent
Scope and Contents
This subseries consists of 14,000 pages and 30 bound volumes of field notes, organized by community and fieldworker. The field notes were processed by a team of data coders and analysts, who produced the CSO Indexed Field Notes Cards and the Biographical Index. The field notes are organized by community and then by name of fieldworker.
The field notes document the experiences of the fieldworkers, including descriptions of the villages in which they worked, people they met and spoke with through the course of their work, and drawings of buildings and other parts of the villages. The notes are in English and Spanish. Descriptions of medicinal plants in villages and what each can be used for; descriptions of relationships between villagers; work done by villagers; what women buy from markets, how much, and how often; health of the field workers; cattle driving routes; religious orders in the villages and religious events; fiestas in each village and the significances and different aspects (social and religious) of each. Two boxes contain court judgments in Compi and Villa Abecia.
