Fieldnotes
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
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1979 December-1994 November
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This folder contains many relatively brief notes where Karp is reporting on Teso material, clarifying concepts and words, noting historical shifts (especially in relation to agriculture and economics), recording interviews and conversations, and much else. It appears mostly to be field notes from the mid-1980s when Karp was at the Smithsonian and regularly returning to work with the Teso. He also included here a number of notes that are excerpts from reviews of article and book manuscripts. Note that the files called "FD1" through "FD4A" are field diary entries in the form of letters to Karp's wife Patty and a girlfriend Suzette (there is also a love letter to Suzette). What seems to be a topical index guide to Karp's paper fieldnotes files is called "INDEX" (and perhaps also "Categori"). This folder also contains an index to the papers that Karp filed with his fieldnotes and their topical relevance ("PAPERLIST") and an index to Steven Omuse's fieldnotes ("STEVEN.BIB").

The subfolder "Karp_Kratz" contains just four files from their joint research project on representation of cultural difference and diversity in exhibits and other display settings. They seem to be notes in-process, as they are much smaller than and earlier
than the final versions of the files that are on Kratz's own hard disk. Kratz typically wrote up fieldnotes and numbered/logged slides for their joint work, and then Karp would add to the notes that Kratz had written up. The  folder "MUSEUMS" has additional materials related to their joint work.

See also the folders "Luo" and "Af Phil" for files related to the joint comparative project that Karp and Dismas Masolo planned to do in Western Kenya. The folder "Steven" has a few letters that Karp wrote to Steven Omuse with instructions for field research.