Kenya
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Conant, Francis
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content: Francis P. Conant Papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 7.2 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1961-1974, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2012-13, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series consists of Conant's files as a research associate for the Culture and Ecology in East Africa Project directed by Walter Goldschimdt. The purpose of the project was to conduct controlled comparisons of four different East African societies and the pastoralists and farmers within each tribe. Emphasis was placed on the relationship between cultural and environmental variables. Conant was assigned to work among the Pokot in West Pokot District in Kenya from 1960-1961. His research was divided between the pastoralists of Masol Location and the farmers of Mwinna Location. 

The series contains project correspondence and discussion notes; field journals; language notes; kinship charts; census information; notes and drafts of papers on sexual violence and sexual behavior among the Pokot; drafts of an unpublished manuscript on the Pokot; photographs; and transcripts of sound recordings. Conant numbered his field photographs and organized them on card files with accompanying notes extracted from his field notebooks. He also created a topical index to his photographs and field notebooks. This series also contains notes on material culture collections Conant acquired for the American Museum of Natural History. 

See Series 8. Sound Recordings, Subseries: Kenya 1970s for associated field recordings. See Series 3. Remote Sensing for his later research on the Pokot. Series 4. Bernheim-Conant Expedition contains photos of Kenya from his expedition in Africa during 1953-1954.