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Describing Archives: A Content Standard Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections Conrad Hall 943 Conrad Road, Room 101 East Lansing , MI 48824 [email protected] URL: http://archives.msu.edu/ John Melton Hunter Papers UA.17.314 Table of Contents Summary Information .................................................................................................................................... 4 Biographical Note .......................................................................................................................................... 4 Scope and Content ......................................................................................................................................... 5 Administrative Information ............................................................................................................................ 5 Controlled Access Headings .......................................................................................................................... 6 Collection Inventory ....................................................................................................................................... 7 I. Ghana, Africa ........................................................................................................................................... 7 Ahuntem .................................................................................................................................................... 7 Demography: 1960 Population Census .................................................................................................... 7 Economic Geography and Agriculture ................................................................................................... 10 Geology and Physical Geography .......................................................................................................... 13 John Hunter's Military Service in Ghana ............................................................................................... 14 Medical Geography ................................................................................................................................. 15 Miscellaneous .......................................................................................................................................... 18 Notebooks and Notes .............................................................................................................................. 19 Suhum and Akotuakrom Area (Southern Ghana): Social Surveys ........................................................ 20 II. Africa .................................................................................................................................................... 21 Angola ..................................................................................................................................................... 21 Cameroon ................................................................................................................................................ 21 Liberia ..................................................................................................................................................... 21 Somalia .................................................................................................................................................... 21 Swaziland ................................................................................................................................................ 21 Sierra Leone ............................................................................................................................................ 22 West Africa ............................................................................................................................................. 26 Conferences ............................................................................................................................................. 26 Coups d'etat ............................................................................................................................................. 27 Giant African Snails ............................................................................................................................... 27 Languages ................................................................................................................................................ 28 Markets and Marketing ........................................................................................................................... 29 Medical Geography ................................................................................................................................. 29 Notebooks and Notes .............................................................................................................................. 31 Traditional Medicine ............................................................................................................................... 31 Women's Blood Pressure Survey ........................................................................................................... 32 - Page 2 - John Melton Hunter Papers UA.17.314 III. Medical Geography - Other Works .................................................................................................... 32 Belize ....................................................................................................................................................... 32 Bot Fly (Latin America) ......................................................................................................................... 32 Dutch Elm Disease (DED) ..................................................................................................................... 33 Geophagy - Clay Eating ......................................................................................................................... 36 Miscellaneous .......................................................................................................................................... 38 Puerto Rico ............................................................................................................................................. 39 Radon ...................................................................................................................................................... 39 The Tooth and Developing World Quality of Life ................................................................................ 39 IV. European Geography .......................................................................................................................... 39 "The Evolving Structure of Industry: a Geographical Study of the Emergence of Greater Nottingham" (draft manuscript for Ph.D., University of Reading) ........................................................ 40 V. Michigan State University ................................................................................................................... 40 African Studies Center ........................................................................................................................... 40 Department of Geography ...................................................................................................................... 41 Department of Geography History Project ............................................................................................ 41 VI. Miscellaneous ...................................................................................................................................... 43 Correspondence ....................................................................................................................................... 43 Reprints and copies of Hunter's articles ................................................................................................. 43 VII. Photographic Materials ...................................................................................................................... 48 35 mm slides ........................................................................................................................................... 48 Photographs and Negatives .................................................................................................................... 52 VIII. Video Recordings ............................................................................................................................. 56 IX. Computer disks ................................................................................................................................... 56 X. Audio Recordings ................................................................................................................................. 57 XI. Oversize Materials .............................................................................................................................. 57 Africa ....................................................................................................................................................... 57 Ghana .....................................................................................................................................................
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