General Research Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Gibson, Gordon D. (Gordon Davis), 1915-2007
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content: Gordon Davis Gibson papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 7.5 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1936 - 2007
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.1984-13, Series 5
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series is composed of a wide variety of materials. The series contains in respective order sources and notes on Africa; lecture materials for courses he taught; his course readings and notes as an undergraduate student at University of Chicago; notes and sources on the use of mathematics and computers in anthropology; sources on ethnographic films, filmmaking, and indexing; notes and partial drafts for projects that he had in progress; and materials from his Portuguese and German language lessons. 

Although there are a few documents relating to the ethnic groups of southwestern Africa, the materials on Africa in this series focus on Africa in general or on other regions. The subjects include African organizations and programs, African weapons, African politics, maps of Africa, and miscellaneous African subjects. Some of the materials appear to be research for the Hall of African Cultures.