Latin America
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Gjording, Chris N., 1943-1993
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content: Chris Gjording papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.67 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1977-1990
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2008-19, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: This series is arranged in 8 subseries: (3.1) Latin America; (3.2) El Salvador; (3.3) Guatemala; (3.4) Honduras; (3.5) Mexico; (3.6) Nicaragua; (3.7) Peru; (3.8) Venezuela
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series contains Gjording's research files on countries in Latin America, with the exception of Panama. Most of Gjording's research and work focused on the poor and oppressed people in Central America and the political and social climate in those nations; however, materials on South American countries are also present in this series. The series is mostly composed of magazine and newspaper clippings, papers written by others, and Gjording's notes. Some of his writings can also be found in this series including a draft of his paper on peasant uprising in El Salvador; his article "Nicaragua's Unfinished Revolution;" and copies of Informacciónes, the Spanish-language newsletter that Gjording wrote for and published from 1985 to 1988 as co-director of Equipo de Reflexión, Investigación y Comunicación (E.R.I.C.) in Honduras. This series also contains correspondence and notes relating to his visits to the Guatemalan Indian refugee camps in Los Lirios and Maya Balam in Quintana Roo in Mexico.

Please see Series 4. Journals for more of Gjording's notes in Central America, including his field notes as a graduate student studying campesinos communities in Chinacá, Guatemala and Chirilagua, San Miguel, El Salvador. Series 7. Computer Disks contains Gjording's reflections of his time in Honduras. Files pertaining to Panama are in Series 2. Panama.