Bonnie and Robert MacDougall papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 15-2-4397

Content Description

Digital files of research materials, photographs and slides taken by the MacDougall's representing architectural traditions and landscape experience in South Asia including India and Sri Lanka. They document ethnographic research on architecture and traditional domestic life in Sri Lanka, conducted in various periods between 1965 and 2012. Images pertain to lifeways and hereditary practices in the Central Highlands, and more particularly to a single remote Sinhala community, Mimure,* in the hinterlands of the Kandy District.

Dates

1965 - 2012

Biographical / Historical

Bonnie MacDougall was an Architectural historian. She received three degrees from Cornell University and joined the College of Architecture, Art and Planning as a visiting professor in 1979. She served as an associate professor of architecture and Asian studies from 1988 until her retirement in 2014. Her husband, anthropologist and architect Robert (Scotty) MacDougall, also had three degrees from Cornell. He served as assistant dean in the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning; as director of the South Asia Program; as guest curator of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art; and as dean of the Division of Summer Session, Extramural Study, and Related Programs.

Extent

? gigabytes.

.6 cubic feet.

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Digital files of research materials, photographs and slides taken by the MacDougall's representing architectural traditions and landscape experience in South Asia including India and Sri Lanka.

Related Materials

See also the online exhibitions of the MacDougalls' work, Depicting the Sri Lankan vernacular: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/10424815 and Beyond the Taj: http://resolver.library.cornell.edu/misc/5745602