I am pleased to be able to present an online version of Jack Goody's Bagre
texts. They are transcripts of texts that he recorded in Ghana in 1969.
They have been made available here with the permission of Professor Goody.
In the late 1960s Goody was among those pioneering the anthropological use of
computer assisted textual analysis. The results were published in 1972 by OUP.
In a report to the SSRC (the precursor of the ESRC) Goody and Duly
reported on this work and on a pioneering experiment on the preserving of
fieldnotes through digisation. Sadly, I have to report that those files cannot be
traced!
Goody, J.R. 1972. The Myth of the Bagre. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
Goody, J.R. and C. Duly. 1981. Studies in the use of Computers in Social
Anthropology (report to the SSRC)..
David Zeitlyn
Canterbury July 1999
Note the files have been modified as little as possible in order that they be
readable in some fashion via the WWW as it exists in Mid-1999.
Some of the decisions that have been made are detailed in the encoding document
(link below).
The files are presented in their entirety - guidance is given about their sizes
below as some are quite big.