Title: 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”<sup>1</sup>
Abstract: 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.
Publication Year: 1971
Publication Date: 1971-06-01
Language: en
Type: article
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