Af Phil
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Karp, Ivan
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content: Ivan Karp papers
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content: Ivan Karp papers / Series 6: Born Digital Files / 6.1: Writings and Projects
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content: 1989 April-1997 May
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content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: African Philosophy was one of Karp's areas of regular engagement. The folder includes a number of his collaborative projects and co-authored works with Kenyan philosopher Dismas Masolo. There are several files of material for the 1998 encyclopedia article they wrote on Ethnophilosophy, which includes an annotated bibliography; 1990/1996 versions of a proposal for their joint comparative project that would bring together anthropology and philosophy research in three communities in Western Kenya; and  the proposal they submitted to the International Africa Institute ("IAI.PRO") for the jointly organized 1993 conference in Nairobi from which African Philosophy as Cultural Inquiry developed. See also the folder "Luo" for a few initial research notes related to the comparative project. This folder also includes material by Masolo (with editing and collaboration by Karp) including his proposal for a fellowship at Rice University ("MASOLO.PRP") – this is the residency that he held when he and his family had to leave the country; Karp helped to facilitate this (see Masolo's narrative about this
in his comments at the November 2011 memorial for Karp; audio available in the Online Archive of Ivan Karp's Publications). It also includes other material that was in-process for the African Philosophy as Cultural Inquiry book, such as a draft of the chapter by Odoch Pido ("PIDO.PAP"), reference for the introduction. Karp also put in this folder two earlier essays he had done that were pertinent sources for the introduction and section introductions he was doing with Masolo for the book: his essay from the bookCreativity of Power , and his encyclopedia essay on Notions of Personhood. There is also one file of other material/articles for reference for these publications.

A subfolder titled "afphilbk1" contains material for African Philosophy as Cultural Inquiry. Three subfolders contain papers for the book's different sections and another subfolder ("AFPHILNE") contains the introductions to sections that Karp and Dismas wrote, the bibliography, etc. These are likely the final versions submitted to the press before final editing.