Research
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Lynch, Owen M., 1931-2013
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content: Owen M. Lynch papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 6.3 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1956-2006
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2013-11, Series 1
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content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series contains Lynch's research files which chiefly relate to his fieldwork. It consists of field notes, surveys, transcripts, language materials, correspondence, and reports from his fieldwork in Madhya Pradesh, Agra, Mumbai, Mathura, and Brindaban. The Munda Languages Project was Lynch's first fieldwork experience in India. Much of this material relates to the Nihali and Nahali languages, and includes vocabulary lists, language analyses, and field notes. His other research focuses on the Dalits in Agra, the Dharavi slums of Mumbai, the Radhavallabhi sect in Brindaban, and the Chaube Brahmans in Mathura. The bulk of the files for these research topics are field notes, surveys and questionnaires, and interview transcripts.

This series is arranged chronologically into 7 subseries.

1.1 Munda Language Project, Madhya Pradesh, India, 1962-circa 1965; 1.2 Dalits in Agra, India, 1956-1967; 1.3 Squatters in Mumbai, India, 1965-1971; 1.4 Pilgrimage and Chaube Brahmans in Mathura, India, 1980-1985; 1.5 Radhavallabhi Sect in Brindaban, India, 1988-1989; 1.6 Dalits in Agra, India, 1994-1995, 1999, 2004; 1.7 Unidentified fieldwork, 1999-2006.

This series contains Lynch's research files which chiefly relate to his fieldwork. It consists of field notes, surveys, transcripts, language materials, correspondence, and reports from his fieldwork in Madhya Pradesh, Agra, Mumbai, Mathura, and Brindaban. The Munda Languages Project was Lynch's first fieldwork experience in India. Much of the material relates to the Nihali and Nahali languages, and includes vocabulary lists, language analyses, and field notes. His other research focuses on the Dalits in Agra, the Dharavi slums of Mumbai, the Radhavallabhi sect in Brindaban, and the Chaube Brahmans in Mathura. The bulk of the files for these research topics are field notes, surveys and questionnaires, and interview transcripts.