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Joseph M. Carrier photographs of Vietnamese Central Highlanders

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Catalog Data

Creator:
Carrier, Joseph M.  Search this
Extent:
339 Color slides
Culture:
Cua (Vietnamese people)  Search this
Hrê (Vietnamese people)  Search this
Jarai (Southeast Asian people)  Search this
Bru (Southeast Asian people)  Search this
Vietnamese  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Color slides
Photographs
Place:
Vietnam
Guatemala
Date:
1962-1973
Scope and Contents note:
Photographs of Vietnamese peoples and refugee camps made during Joseph M. Carrier's work in Vietnam for the Rand Corporation and the National Academy of Sciences. The collection includes images of airfields, a hospital, Viet Cong defectors, and weaving and basket-making. There are also photographs depicting people, architecture, and art, made in Guatemala circa 1964 and 1972.
Biographical/Historical note:
Joseph Michel Carrier (b. 1927) was a counterinsurgency specialist for the Rand Corporation in Vietnam, a researcher on herbicide use in Vietnam, and an anthropologist specializing in the analysis of homosexuality among Mexican and Vietnamese men. Educated at the University of Miami (BA, 1950) and Purdue University (MA, 1952), he gained employment with the Rand Corporation in 1956 as a research analyst. In 1962 and 1965-1967, Carrier was detailed to South Vietnam, where he assisted anthropologist Gerald Cannon Hickey's research on the Highland peoples and conducted fieldwork on Viet Cong morale and defection. Carrier returned to the United States in 1968 and entered the graduate program in anthropology at the University of California at Irvine. However, despite his doctoral research on homosexual men in Mexico, Carrier could find no positions in sex research after earning his PhD in 1972. With Hickey's support, Carrier found employment as a staff officer for the National Academy of Science's Herbicide Study Group, for whom he gathered data on the effects of US operations in Vietnam which used herbicides to defoliate forests to expose enemy compounds and poisoned Viet Cong food supplies. In 1974, Carrier helped author a working paper on the effects of these programs on the Vietnamese Highland populations. After his time in Vietnam, Carrier worked as an evaluator of California law enforcement programs (1973-1987) and was Chief Social Scientist for the Orange County Health Agency AIDS Community Education Project (retired 1992).
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 2014-02
Location of Other Archival Materials:
The Southeast Asian Archive, The UC Irvine Libraries and the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives hold Joseph Carrier's papers.
Related Materials:
The National Anthropological Archives holds the papers and photographs of Gerald Cannon Hickey.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Topic:
Refugee camps  Search this
Vietnam War, 1961-1975  Search this
Genre/Form:
Photographs
Citation:
Photo Lot 2014-02, Joseph M. Carrier photographs of Vietnamese Central Highlanders, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier:
NAA.PhotoLot.2014-02
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw366fd5984-46f0-4327-9847-7946730cd89a
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-2014-02