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Producers : numbers 1 to 300

File consists of Silverman's notes about farmer producers, organized by surname, pertaining to work history and hectares farmed between 1965 and 1978.

Producers : national lists

File consists of spreadsheets detailing banana production in Ecuador, organized by producer surname and detailing the name of farm and amount land farmed. These statistics were compiled by Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganaderia, Programa Nacional del Banano y Frutas Tropicales, Seccion Sistemas Mecanizados.

Producers : national lists

File consists of spreadsheets detailing banana production in Ecuador, organized by producer surname and detailing the name of farm and amount land farmed. These statistics were compiled by Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganaderia, Programa Nacional del Banano y Frutas Tropicales, Seccion Sistemas Mecanizados.

Producers : national lists

File consists of spreadsheets detailing banana production in Ecuador, organized by producer surname and detailing the name of farm and amount land farmed. These statistics were compiled by Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganaderia, Programa Nacional del Banano y Frutas Tropicales, Seccion Sistemas Mecanizados.

Producers : national lists

File consists of spreadsheets detailing banana production in Ecuador, organized by producer surname and detailing the name of farm and amount land farmed. These statistics were compiled by Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganaderia, Programa Nacional del Banano y Frutas Tropicales, Seccion Sistemas Mecanizados.

Producers : by sectors : 1961

Item is a published register of banana producers in Ecuador in 1961, organized by producer surname and detailing the name of the farm and amount of land farmed.

Producers : 1969 : L-Z : national list

Item is a list of banana producers organized by producer surname and detailing the name of their farm. These statistics were compiled by Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganaderia, Direccion National del Banano.

Producers : 1968 : A-Z : national list

Item is a list of banana producers organized by producer surname and detailing the name of their farm. These statistics were compiled by Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganaderia, Direccion National del Banano.

Producers : 1967 : A-Z : national list

Item is a list of banana producers organized by producer surname and detailing the name of their farm. These statistics were compiled by Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganaderia, Direccion National del Banano.

Producers : 1966 : A-Z : national list

Item is a list of banana producers organized by producer surname and detailing the name of their farm. These statistics were compiled by Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganaderia, Direccion National del Banano.

Producers : 1965 : A-Z : national list

Item is a list of banana producers organized by producer surname and detailing the name of their farm. These statistics were compiled by Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganaderia, Direccion National del Banano.

Producers

File consists of Silverman's notes about farmer producers, organized by surname, pertaining to work history and hectares farmed between 1965 and 1978.

Probation reports

File consists of confidential reports sent to Silverman by a probation officer in the British Guiana Probation Service, including records of supervision, school reports and probation officer reports pertaining to teenagers in the juvenile court system.

Oral notes from government files

Audio recordings of Silverman's oral notes taken at the Bush Lot record office, including minute books and other local records. See index for details of the contents of each tape. Many of these tapes have been transcribed.

Notes

File consists of Silverman's notes pertaining to Bush Lot rate and expenditure estimates for periods between 1942 and 1961, as well as extracts from Bush Lot village council meeting minutes in 1969.

Notebook

Item is a notebook maintained by Silverman and consisting of interview notes and answers, as well as Silverman's notes from the field.

North Mackenzie market

File consists of a hand drawn diagram, handwritten questions and answers pertaining to Silverman's interviewing of shop owners in the market regarding the problem of robbery.

Networks : Zulekha Ronoman

File consists of forms completed by Zulekha Ronoman, documenting her interactions and meetings with individuals on a daily basis in June 1969. One form was completed for every person with whom she interacted.

Networks : Shivrattan Persaud

File consists of forms completed by Shivrattan Persaud, documenting his interactions and meetings with individuals on a daily basis in June-July 1969. One form was completed for every person with whom he interacted.

Networks : Richard Ramballi

File consists of forms completed by Richard Ramballi, documenting his interactions and meetings with individuals on a daily basis in June-July 1969. One form was completed for every person with whom he interacted.

Networks : J.P. Shivrattan

File consists of forms completed by Reverend J.P. Shivrattan, documenting his interactions and meetings with individuals on a daily basis in May-June 1969. One form was completed for every person with whom he interacted.

Networks : Chung

File consists of forms completed by a Mr. Chung, documenting his interactions and meetings with individuals on a daily basis in July 1969. One form was completed for every person with whom he interacted.

Networks : Abdool Rohoman

File consists of forms completed by Abdool Rohoman, documenting his interactions and meetings with individuals on a daily basis in July 1969. One form was completed for every person with whom he interacted.

Network analyses

File consists of data analyses pertaining to Silverman's questionnaire about respondents' social and family networks. The completed questionnaires are found in files 2015-019/005(1) to 2015-019/008(5).

Monthly exports by producer

File consists of spreadsheets detailing the monthly exportation of bananas and tropical fruit from Ecuador bin 1976, 1978 and January 1979, organized by producer surname. These statistics were compiled by the Programa Nacional del Banano y Frutas Tropicales.

Marilyn Silverman fonds

  • F0672
  • Fonds
  • 1936-1979

Fonds consists of records created and accumulated by Marilyn Silverman pertaining to her field research in socio-cultural anthropology. The records in this fonds document in particular her research in Guyana for her MA thesis (1966) and her PhD thesis (1969-1970), as well as a research project on banana production in Ecuador (1978). These records include correspondence, field notes and reports, questionnaires, card indices, interview notes and transcripts, government reports and statistics, police reports, data and work sheets, audio recordings, photographs and maps.

Silverman, Marilyn

Maps

File consists of maps and plans pertaining to the layout of Bush Lot, adjacent villages and regions, and Guyana as a whole.

Local politics and economic change in an East Indian rice farming village (Guyana) : research materials

Series consists of records created and accumulated by Silverman primarily between 1969 and 1970, when she conducted field research in Bush Lot, Guyana, for her PhD thesis entitled “Resource change and village factionalism in an East Indian community, Guyana”. The results of this research were also published in her book, Rich people and rice: factional politics in rural Guyana, 1900-1970. This ethnographic and historical research examined local-level politics and the effect of economic resources on politics in Bush Lot, an East Indian rice-farming community on the coast of Guyana. These records document Silverman’s approach to research, which included casual conversation, participant observation, attendance at political events, formal interviews, primary source research and household surveys, and her process of aggregating the resulting data, as well as providing a comprehensive history of the village of Bush Lot and its inhabitants in the early- to mid-20th century. The records in this series are notes, copies of village council minutes and letter books, court documents, surveys and household questionnaires, government reports, census records, audio recordings, interview transcripts and notes, card indices and computer printouts, research reports, maps of Bush Lot and greater Guyana, correspondence, and a copy of Silverman’s PhD dissertation.

Jaundoo's ledger

File includes a published register of voters for the village of Bush Lot for the year 1 November 1942 to 31 October 1943.

Interview notes

File consists of three notebooks maintained by Silverman and consisting of copies of questionnaires and handwritten interview question answers on the subject of juvenile delinquency.

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