Jasper Ingersoll papers
name: label: Creator
content: Ingersoll, Jasper
label: Names
content: Southeast Asia Development Advisory Group
label: Names
content: United States. Agency for International Development
place: label: Place
content: Thailand
label: Place
content: Southeast Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Economic development
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from Jasper and Fern Ingersoll in 2007 and 2016.
creator: label: Creator
content: Ingersoll, Jasper
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: Jasper Ingersoll is an anthropologist who has worked extensively in the area of development project implementation and analysis, particularly in the Mekong River Basin area of Thailand.  In addition to teaching at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., Ingersoll has worked in partnership with both the Agency for International Development and the Asia Society's South East Asia Development Advisory Group.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 19.5 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1959 - circa 1991
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2007-02
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection is unprocessed.  Contact the repository for more information.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This collection documents the professional activities of anthropologist Jasper (Jay) Ingersoll from approximately 1959-1991.  The collection contains his fieldnotes and interview tapes, reports to the Agency for International Development, the World Bank and the Asia Society's South East Asia Development Advisory Group, correspondence, research proposals and notes, conference papers, teaching materials, lecture notes, bibliography cards, 35mm slides, and Ingersoll's dissertation and master's thesis.  Also included are CVs for Ingersoll and his wife Fern Ingersoll, and an 8x10 photograph of Ingersoll being awarded a certificate as a valued lecturer of the State Department Foreign Service Institute (Nov 1971).  

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