Catalogue of the papers of J. Brown Sasson

Reference code: GB-0033-SAD
Title: Brown Sassoon, Jean
Dates of creation: 1981-1985
Extent: 1 box, 5 maps
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Created by: Brown Sassoon, Jean
Language: English

Jean Brown Sassoon (née Lucas)

(b. 1927)


	1953	Ethnology Department, British Museum
	1954-1958	Archaeological field survey work in Kenya, including a period in 1956 assisting Dr Louis Leakey with Identification of Miocene fossils and Olduvai Gorge excavations
	1959	Assistant to Forest Entomologist EAFFRO
	1960	Assistant Editor, East African Agricultural Journal
	1961-1962	British Council, Nairobi
	1962-1974	Hon. Ethnographer, National Museum of Kenya, collecting material culture from all Kenya groups
	1962-1974	Lecturer, University of Nairobi (Material Culture Project, Institute of African Studies)
	1971-1976	Anthropological research amongst the Pokot people
	1978	Consultant socio-anthropologist on the Turkwel Dam Project, Norwegian Agency for International Development and UN Food and Agriculture Organization
	1979	Consultant socio-anthropologist on the Turkana cluster of irrigation schemes, Arid Regional Development Project
	1982-1984	Consultant rural sociologist (Booker Agriculture International Ltd), Juba, World Bank Project Development Unit and British Overseas Development Administration

Arrangement

1. Official Papers

2. Consultancy, 1982-1984

3. Maps and plans

Related Material

Pitt Rivers Museum: two boxes of material, relating especially to Brown Sassoon’s research in Southern Sudan.

Accession details

Presented by Jean Brown Sassoon, 22 July 2019

Catalogue

1. Official papers

SAD.1049/1/1-103; SAD.1049/2/1-90; SAD.1049/3/1-76

[1983]
“Wau Smallholder Survey Report. Technical report”, in 3 parts. Issued by the Planning Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Southern Region, Juba. Each part annotated “land use copy”.

SAD.1049/4/1-81; SAD.1049/5/1-113; SAD.1059/6/1-20

February 1983
“Yei Agricultural Development District (Yacap Project), Main report / Development report”, (draft) in 2 parts; with annex of maps, several annotated and with 2 hand-drawn map inserts. Issued by the Planning Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Southern Region, Juba.

2. Consultancy, 1982-1984

SAD.1049/7/1-203

January 1983
“Mundri Agricultural Development District, Smallholder survey. Technical report no. 55”. Prepared BAI Ltd for the Planning Department (RMANR) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Southern Region, Juba.

SAD.1049/8/1-27

June 1983
“Mundri Agricultural Development District, Rural sociology. [Technical] report no. 57”. Prepared by A. Cheesmond (BAI Ltd) for the Planning Department (RMANR) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Southern Region, Juba.

SAD.1049/9/1-123

July 1983
“Mundri Agricultural Development District, Main report” (draft); with covering letter from J.V. Harbord, Managing Director, Tropical Agricultural Division, BAI Ltd, 28 July 1983. Prepared by BAI Ltd for the Planning Department (RMANR) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Southern Region, Juba.

SAD.1049/10/1-188

December 1984
“Wau Agricultural Development District, Main Report”; with covering letter from Martin Evans, Managing Director, Tropical Agricultural Division, BAI Ltd, 20 December 1984. Prepared by BAI Ltd for the Planning Department (RMAAP) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Production, Bahr el Ghazal Region, Wau.

SAD.1049/11/1-26

January 1985
“Wau Agricultural Development District, Synopsis of sociological factors with implications for development”: includes transparencies of figures 1, 9, 15, and unnumbered. Prepared by J. Brown (BAI Ltd) for the Planning Department (RMAAP) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Production, Bahr el Ghazal Region, Wau.

SAD.1049/12/1-25

January 1985
“Yei Agricultural Development District, Synopsis of sociological factors with implications for development.” Report prepared by J. Brown (BAI Ltd) for the Planning Department (RMANRCRD) of the Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources, Cooperatives and Rural Development, Equatoria Region, Juba.

3. Maps and plans

SAD.1049/13[MP] (location SAD.PF 24/7)

January 1983
Map of [Sudan] “Southern Region, Area & People's Rural Councils” (LUP/C/12). Juba : Land Use and Physical Planning Unit, Regional Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Drawn by Raymond G. Kenyi. Diazo dyeline print. Source: Council boundaries located by the Regional Census Commission 1983, Juba; sources from Regional Ministry of Decentralization.
scale: 1 : 2,000,000
Size: 70.5 x 49.5 cm

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Maps

SAD.1049/14-15[MP] (location SAD.PF 24/7)

January 1983
“Wau Agricultural Development District. Base map” (LUP/A/12). Juba : Land Use and Physical Planning Unit, Regional Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Second edition: roads and place names revised by A.M. Lavelle after fieldwork; traced by Raymond Jale O. Diazo dyeline print. 2 copies, SAD.1049/14 annotated.
scale: 1 : 250,000
Size: 112.5 x 81 cm

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Maps

SAD.1049/16[MP] (location SAD.PF 24/7)

December 1981
“Yei Agricultural Development District. Current land use” (LUP/B/3). Juba : Land Use and Physical Planning Unit, Planning Department, Regional Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Diazo dyeline print. Source: interpreted from Landsat data recorded in January 1980 and other sources by T.E. Beaumont; drawn by Raymond G. Kenyi. Annotated.
scale: 1 : 250,000
Size: 113 x 84 cm
Temporarily unfit for production.

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Maps

SAD.1049/17[MP] (location SAD.PF 24/7)

1983
Yei Agricultural Development District. [Base map] (LUP/A/13). Juba : Land Use and Physical Planning Unit, Planning Department, Regional Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Diazo dyeline print. Drawn in 1981 by D.W. Billing; redrawn in 1983 with villages by Raymond G. Kenyi. Corresponds to 77 L, 77P, 78I, 78J, 78M, 78N, 86A, 86B 1:250,000 national series.
scale: 1 : 250,000
Size: 99 x 61 cm

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Maps