Allan R. Holmberg collection on Peru

Collection — Box: 34

Identifier: 14-25-1529

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

The subject matter of the materials from the Cornell Peru Project consists of working operations in Vicos. The types of material include correspondence; census forms; census returns; a land tenure survey; hydrological data; Vicos hacienda purchase agreement; accounts and account books; interviews with the Vicosinos; Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) field notes on Vicos and also the communities of Viru, Marcara, Recuayhuanca, Paucartambo, and Huaylas; monographs, reprints, publications, and unpublished articles; 3x5 bibliographic cards; code sheets; field notebooks; field note stencils; field notes; HRAF interview data; interview guides; interview sheets; life histories; maps; questionnaires; photographs; slides; and other miscellaneous materials. Also included are films of miscellaneous footage of Vicos and inhabitants taken by C.P.P. staff. Material relating to Allan Holmberg's work in Viru, Peru consists of correspondence and subject files. The material relating to the Cornell Cross-Cultural Methodology Project consists of interviews with Vicosinos, lists of respondents, and notebooks with cross-cultural methodology material (including Vicos material).

Dates

circa 1946-1966.

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English and Spanish

ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY

The aim of the Cornell Peru Project was to conduct an experiment in applied anthropology dealing with social and cultural change among the Indian serfs of the Andean hacienda (an agricultural manor) of Vicos, located in the Callejon de Huaylas of Peru. It also was to give training to social scientists in applied field work in anthropology. The Peruvian Indian Institute, a semi-autonomous agency attached to the Ministry of Labor and Indian Affairs, collaborated in this project. Cornell University, under Professor Holmberg's direction, leased the Vicos hacienda for a five year period. During that five year period from 1951-1956, the Vicos community changed from one of serfdom under the rule of a "patron," to that of an autonomous, self-governing and economically viable community. After the five year period, Cornell continued as advisor to the Vicos community and to the Peruvian Ministry of Labor and Indian Affairs until 1965. Another division of the collection, the Cross-Cultural Methodology Project, was composed of the records of a group of social scientists at Cornell University who obtained funds from the Carnegie Foundation of New York to carry out a comparative study of social science methods in different areas of the world. A Peruvian phase of this study was carried out by Professor Rose Goldsen at Vicos, Peru in 1952-1953. Dr. Max Ralis was involved with this study in Thailand and India.

1947 Carnegie Corporation of New York five-year grant for establishment of the Cornell University Studies in Culture and Applied Science (CUSCAS) program. Included teaching and research on cultural change in the American Southwest, India, Latin America, and Thailand.
1949 Preliminary study of Hacienda Vicos by Mario C. Vazquez.
1951 Carnegie Corporation of New York grant to Cornell University for continuation of CUSCAS, including five-year experiment in culture change at Vicos. Contributions also came from Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and the Social Science Research Council. Allan R. Holmberg, Director of the Cornell Peru Project, and Carlos Monge M., Director of the Instituto Indigenista Peruana, arranged for the cooperation of the two institutions.
1952 Finalization of the rental of Hacienda Vicos from the Sociedad de Beneficencia Publica de Huaraz. Patronship was jointly held by the Cornell Peru Project and the Instituto Indigenista Peruana, with Holmberg and Monge as co-directors. Holmberg acted as the first Field Director of the Vicos experimental station.
1952-1953 William Mangin acted as Field Director of the Vicos experimental station.
1953 Cornell Methodology Project in Vicos, funded by a Rockefeller Foundation grant. Directed by Rose K. Goldsen, with assistance from Bryce Ryan and Richard Patch.
1953-1956 William Blanchard acted as Field Director of the Vicos experimental station.
1954 May Kedney did a private study of the use of visual arts in education in the Vicos school.
1954-1955 Cornell Methodology Project in Bang Chan, Thailand, funded by a Rockefeller Foundation grant. Directed by Max Ralis and Robert Textor.
1956 Dr. Marshall T. Newman of the Division of Physical Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution, conducted growth and maturation studies with Vicos school children. Dr. Fred Allen of the Blood Grouping Laboratory of Boston, Mass., did blood groups studies.
1957-1962 Mario C. Vazquez acted as Field Director of the Vicos experimental station.
1959-1962 Henry F. Dobyns acted as Research Coordinator of the Cornell Peru Project.
1959-1964 Carnegie Corporation of New York grant for Cornell Peru Project.
1960-1965 Columbia-Cornell-Harvard-Illinois Summer Field Study Program.
1962 Transfer of community title to the Vicosinos finalized. Cost of the sale was 3,256,861 soles, 2 million of which was paid directly by the community. U.S. Peace Corps contract with Cornell University for the training of Peru III volunteers. Directed by Paul L. Doughty.
1962-1964 Paul L. Doughty acted as Research Coordinator of the Cornell Peru Project.
1963-1966 Comparative Studies of Cultural Change program, funded by a contract with the U.S. Agency for International Development (contract AID/csd-296). Included with the Cornell India and Thailand Projects, the Cornell Peru Project with Allan R. Holmberg as Director and Henry F. Dobyns as Associate Director of the Project and Coordinator of the Program. With the death of Holmberg in 1966, Dobyns became Director of the Cornell Peru Project, 1966-1967.
1964 Mario C. Vazquez acted as Research Coordinator of the Cornell Peru Project. Andean Indian Community Research and Development program, funded by a contract with the U.S. Agency for International Development (contract AID/ia-206). Colquiri, study of nationalized mines in Bolivia, requested by COMIBOL, the state mining corporation.

*Individual studies by graduate students or others supervised wholly or in part by Cornell staff are omitted from this listing but can be found in Cornell Peru Project bibliographies.

Chronological List of Funding and Personnel for Projects Included in the Vicos Collection*

1947
: Carnegie Corporation of New York five-year grant for establishment of the Cornell University Studies in Culture and Applied Science (CUSCAS) program. Included teaching and research on cultural change in the American Southwest, India, Latin America, and Thailand.
1949
: Preliminary study of Hacienda Vicos by Mario C. Vazquez.
1951
: Carnegie Corporation of New York grant to Cornell University for continuation of CUSCAS, including five-year experiment in culture change at Vicos. Contributions also came from Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and the Social Science Research Council.; Allan R. Holmberg, Director of the Cornell Peru Project, and Carlos Monge M., Director of the Instituto Indigenista Peruana, arranged for the cooperation of the two institutions.
1952
: Finalization of the rental of Hacienda Vicos from the Sociedad de Beneficencia Publica de Huaraz. Patronship was jointly held by the Cornell Peru Project and the Instituto Indigenista Peruana, with Holmberg and Monge as co-directors. Holmberg acted as the first Field Director of the Vicos experimental station.
1952-1953
: William Mangin acted as Field Director of the Vicos experimental station.
1953
: Cornell Methodology Project in Vicos, funded by a Rockefeller Foundation grant. Directed by Rose K. Goldsen, with assistance from Bryce Ryan and Richard Patch.
1953-1956
: William Blanchard acted as Field Director of the Vicos experimental station.
1954
: May Kedney did a private study of the use of visual arts in education in the Vicos school.
1954-1955
: Cornell Methodology Project in Bang Chan, Thailand, funded by a Rockefeller Foundation grant. Directed by Max Ralis and Robert Textor.
1956
: Dr. Marshall T. Newman of the Division of Physical Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution, conducted growth and maturation studies with Vicos school children.; Dr. Fred Allen of the Blood Grouping Laboratory of Boston, Mass., did blood groups studies.
1957-1962
: Mario C. Vazquez acted as Field Director of the Vicos experimental station.
1959-1962
: Henry F. Dobyns acted as Research Coordinator of the Cornell Peru Project.
1959-1964
: Carnegie Corporation of New York grant for Cornell Peru Project.
1960-1965
: Columbia-Cornell-Harvard-Illinois Summer Field Study Program.
1962
: Transfer of community title to the Vicosinos finalized. Cost of the sale was 3,256,861 soles, 2 million of which was paid directly by the community.; U.S. Peace Corps contract with Cornell University for the training of Peru III volunteers. Directed by Paul L. Doughty.
1962-1964
: Paul L. Doughty acted as Research Coordinator of the Cornell Peru Project.
1963-1966
: Comparative Studies of Cultural Change program, funded by a contract with the U.S. Agency for International Development (contract AID/csd-296). Included with the Cornell India and Thailand Projects, the Cornell Peru Project with Allan R. Holmberg as Director and Henry F. Dobyns as Associate Director of the Project and Coordinator of the Program. With the death of Holmberg in 1966, Dobyns became Director of the Cornell Peru Project, 1966-1967.
1964
: Mario C. Vazquez acted as Research Coordinator of the Cornell Peru Project.; Andean Indian Community Research and Development program, funded by a contract with the U.S. Agency for International Development (contract AID/ia-206).; Colquiri, study of nationalized mines in Bolivia, requested by COMIBOL, the state mining corporation.

Extent

46 cubic feet. (46 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

The materials in this collection reflect the research of Allan R. Holmberg and others in Peru, most notably relating to the Cornell Peru Project but also including materials on the Cornell Cross-Cultural Methodology Project and Holmberg's research in Viru, Peru.

Available Copies:

Numerous photographs and documents from the collection have been digitized and are accessible via the Web at: https://digital.library.cornell.edu/?f%5Bcollection_tesim%5D%5B%5D=Vicos+Collection .

RELATED MATERIALS

Henry F. Dobyns papers, 1960s. #6803.

Paul L. Doughty collection of Vicos photographs, 1960-1969. #6734.

Physical Description

Correspondence, reports, publications, photographs.

General

Contact Information:: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:: N/A
Date completed:: January 2005
EAD encoding:: Peter Martinez, January 2005Sarah Keen, May 2008Sarah Keen, October 2008
Date modified:: Fredrika Loew, November 2018

General

*Individual studies by graduate students or others supervised wholly or in part by Cornell staff are omitted from this listing but can be found in Cornell Peru Project bibliographies.

Processing Information

The collection originally was processed in 1975 by Deborah A. Wood. Several additions, most notably an additional corpus of files kept by Allan R. Holmberg, arrived in the ensuing years and now have been incorporated into the main collection. The original contents listing for the collection was published in 1975 but is now obsolete. However, the 1975 guide contains useful administrative information about the Cornell Peru Project and insights into the contents of the collection that have been incorporated into the guide where appropriate.

The original contents listing system indexed the collection by title, by subjects, by personal names, by date, by names of significant organizations, and by geographic place names. a. File unit title. b. Key words which identify the subject matter of the unit. c. Personal names of individuals who are significant in the unit. d. Inclusive dates. e. Organizations which are significant in the unit. f. Physical types of material in the unit. g. Geographical location. This format does not apply to the incorporated additions or all of the original series listings.