Department of Anthropology proposed reservoir area studies.

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Department of Anthropology proposed reservoir area studies.

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he Department of Anthropology proposed reservoir area studies include photographs, interviews, statistics, observations and completed analyses of communities in the affected areas of proposed flood-control projects from 1968-1974, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1968-1971. The counties of Anderson, Mercer, Madison, Lee, Pendleton, Mason, Clay, Spencer, Nicholas, Robertson, Kenton, and Boone are represented within the collection. Also included are two note cards from a study of Quito, Ecuador in 1965. The collection contains extensive images of towns and rural communities, some of which have since been inundated, and provides a record of the agricultural activities which were the basis of the economy in these areas at the time. The note cards reflect the observations and first-hand interviews with community members which researchers recorded while taking up temporary residence in the areas for study. Research reports represent compiled information from these studies presented to the United States Department of the Interior. The proposed mission of researchers from the Department of Anthropology was to study these areas "for an extended period of time beginning at the preconstruction stage and continuing well beyond the actual completion of the reservoirs." (Research Report No. 28, 1970) Socio-cultural and socio-economic factors are the focus of the study, aiming to offset the 'cost-effectiveness' model employed in flood-control projects with an analysis of the social costs and benefits.

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