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Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds File
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Ilewo village data

File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Ilewo. File includes two hand-drawn maps of the village. Researchers considered the village modern.

Joko village data

File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Joko. File includes two hand-drawn maps of the village. Researchers considered the village traditional.

Kutaw village data

File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Kutaw. File includes two hand-drawn maps of the village. Researchers considered the village modern.

Log canoe article

File consists of communications, research notes, newspaper clippings, and boat racing information to be used in writing an article on the history of log canoes.

Native conceptions of disease

File contains notes on psychiatric symptoms and diseases present in Nigerian respondents, and on the respondents' beliefs regarding illness. Also contains notes between researchers sharing thoughts and findings. File also includes Jane Murphy's field notes from discussions of disease with respondents. File also contains a copy of the study "The psychiatric examination of native African patients" by Edward L. Margetts.

Nigerian movie

Files contains documents relating to the film "Mental Health Research in Nigeria" that was filmed during the 1961 Cornell-Aro study. Included are memos discussing the film's production and release, notes on filming scenes, a brochure for Cornell's program in social psychiatry, film production and narration notes, comments from researchers, and letters between researchers, librarians, and contacts in the Nigerian government. File also includes a publication called "African film bibliography 1965" by the Committee of Fine Arts and the Humanities of the African Studies Association.

Notes on academic degrees and education in Nigeria

File contains research notes on the history of schools and public education in Nigeria. Comparisons are made between British and Nigerian degree systems. File also includes correspondence between researchers and the Nigerian Consulate in New York regarding Nigerian schooling and the place of women therein.

Notes on coding

File contains notes on data processing and coding, medical findings, and psychiatric social data. Also includes correspondence between Dorothea Leighton and Alice Longaker regarding coding process and classification procedures.

Oluwo village data

File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Ilewo. File includes one hand-drawn map of the village. Researchers considered the village traditional.

Opeji village data

File contains social and historical research notes, field notes, and population medical survey results for the village of Opeji. File includes four hand-drawn maps of the village.

Personality tests and psychoneurotic screening

File contains preliminary research plans, a seminar report on psychological testing, a multiphase personality inventory, and an excerpt on psychoneurotic screening in the Army, all written or originating with M.L. Kohn (1928-2021), who may have been a graduate or post-doctoral student at Cornell, working under Alexander Leighton.
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