The Autobiography of Don Alfredo Vasquez Jara
name: label: Interviewer
content: Low, Sam
place: label: Place
content: South America
label: Place
content: Peru
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from Sam Low in 2016.
creator: label: Interviewer
content: Low, Sam
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: Sam Low received a B.A. in history from Yale in 1964 and an M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology from Harvard in 1971 and 1975, respectively.  Although he conducted fieldwork in  Peru in the late 1960s, he has spent most of his career as a writer, photographer, and filmmaker studying Polynesian sailing and settlement of the Pacific.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.25 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1969
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2017-06
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of a transcript of a series of interwiews of Alfredo Jara Vasquez conducted by Sam Low.  The interviews were conducted as part of Low's research for his dissertation, The Social and Spacial Organization of a Peruvian Barriada.  The interview covers Vasquez Jara's youth in Santa Cruz de Chuca, Peru, his travels in the Sierra, and his migration to the city of Trujillo.  Topics discussed include magic, folk medicine, agriculture, family dynamics, love, marriage, life strategies, and education.  The collection also includes a short introduction written by Low.

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relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The Human Studies Film Archives holds The Navigators: Pathfinders of the Pacific, 1983 by Sam Low.