The Use of Archival Materials in the Analysis and Interpretation of Field Data

A Case Study in the Institutionalization of the Myth of Leprosy as "Leper"1

Bibliographic Data

ID2450814
AuthorsZachary Gussow (University Medical Center New Orleans, corresponding author), George S Tracy (Louisiana State University)
Year1971
Volume73
Issue3
Pages695-709
Publication date1971-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Anthropologist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7294 • E-ISSN: 1548-1433
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/aa.1971.73.3.02a00110
OpenAlexW1973054668
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited17

Among anthropologists, archival materials are considered ancillary to the analysis and interpretation of field data. This paper reports on the importance of the use of such materials in the elucidation of analytical problems that may arise during the course of fieldwork. We present a schematization of a conceptual approach to historical processes that permits inquiry into the persistence of patterns over time. Together, then, field and historical data may be combined analytically, and thus constitute a means of identifying feedback processes and mechanisms that interrelate present views and structures of a phenomenon with those past views, events, forces, and structures which have influenced present views

Data science · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Institutionalisation · Interpretation (philosophy · Management science · Mythology · Persistence (discontinuity · Phenomenon · Political science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Computer Science · Engineering · History · Law · Leprosy Research and Treatment · Mathematics · Philosophy · Race, Genetics, and Society

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