Burma
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Spiro, Melford E., 1920-2014
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content: Melford E. Spiro papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2.71 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1943-1978, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2015-04, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: This series is arranged in 3 subseries: 3.1 Field notes, 1961-1962; 3.2 Research and collected data, 1943-1978, undated; 3.3 Photographs, 1959-1962.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Series 3 documents Spiro's field work in Burma and subsequent research. The materials date from 1943-1978 and include his period of field work in Burma from 1961-1962 and his work with Burmese refugees in Thailand from 1969-1972.  Materials include field notes, collected data, research files, and photographs.

The field notes cover his period of study from 1961-1962 and some have been deconstructed and organized by subject. Collected data includes autobiographies, drawings, sentence completions, TAT (Thematic Apperception Tests), and BMIT-SERT protocols, schedules, and tables. The photographs consist of color slides taken in Burma and other locations in Southeast Asia.