Ifaluk
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Spiro, Melford E., 1920-2014
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content: Melford E. Spiro papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.92 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1947-1988, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2015-04, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Arranged in alphabetical order with photographs listed at the end.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Series 1 documents Spiro's field work on the Ifaluk Atoll (currently part of the Federated States of Micronesia) as part of his dissertation research. The materials date from 1947-1988, with the bulk from his period of field work from 1947-1948. Materials include notes, interviews, personality data and analysis, a report, a manuscript draft, and photographs.

The materials primarily consist of personality and intelligence tests (Rorschach, Thematic Apperception Tests (TAT), etc.), observations, interviews, and drawings by children, and black-and-white snapshots of the people and landscapes of Ifaluk. Many of the subject files, covering topics such as life cycle, daily life, and sex, appear to be field notes that Spiro deconstructed and categorized.