Mirroring Hope: The Bhungroo Irrigation Technology Oral History Project

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  Handwritten notes taken during interviews

  Handwritten interview notes when the recorder was not working.
  Date: 2019
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  Thumbprint signing the release form

  Close-up of a a person signing a release form with their thumbprint. We see the form close-up, and someone's hand pushing their thumb onto the paper. They are wearing a green bangle bracelet.
  Date: 2019
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  Signing the release form. Photo 2

  Close-up of a a person signing their name on the release form. We see the form close-up, and someone's hands holding a pen as they sign.
  Date: 2019
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  Signing the release form. Photo 1

  Notebook and release form in the foreground surrounded by three people's laps. One holding a recorder, one signing the form, and the other explaining. No faces are visible. We only see their crossed legs, arms and hands.
  Date: 2019
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  Program officers explaining interviews to a Bhungroo farmer

  Program officer, wearing a yellow button down shirt and standing on the left, explains the interviews to a Bhungroo farmer who stands on the right with her back towards us.
  Date: 2019
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  Program officer contacting farmers to interview

  Program officer making calls from the driver seat of a vehicle. He is wearing a yellow collared shirt. He has papers across his lap, one in his hand, and it appears he is speaking into a phone.
  Date: 2019
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  Pre-testing the questionnaire

  Oral history project members pre-testing the interview questions outside, sitting on benches.
  Date: 2019
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  Peg interviewing with Dhruti interpreting

  Peg (sitting to the left on the bench) is interviewing a group of women sitting on the floor as Dhruti (sitting to the right on the bench) translates.
  Date: 2019
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  Peg and Jamie talking and recording group responses

  Peg (foreground left with legs out holding the recorder) and Jamie (back row left with legs crossed) sit on a sheet covered floor in a circle with a group of women with many women standing in the background.
  Date: 2019
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  Signing the interview release form

  Looking down for a close-up of a woman signing a release form. She has a bangle bracelet on each wrist.
  Date: 2019
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  Reviewing and editing the questionnaire before the field interviews

  Project leaders and interpreters sit in a Bhungroo office consulting papers with another woman who faces away from us in the foreground.
  Date: 2019
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  Recording the interviews and signing release forms

  Looking down for a close-up of a recording device and someone signing a release form.
  Date: 2019
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  Pre-testing the interview questions

  Project leaders and interpreters (left to right: Peg, Jamie, Hetshree, Dhruti) sit on benches outside and pre-test interview questions on a gentleman who also sits on a bench. Another gentleman sits on a chair in the background.
  Date: 2019
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  Hetshree interpreting for Jamie in interviews

  Translator, Hetshree Kangad, translates an interview for Jamie Sommer. Jamie looks up at the camera. They are interviewing a small group of four women. They all sit on the floor.
  Date: 2019
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  Hetshree explaining the interview release form

  Translator, Hetshree Kangad, explaining the release form to two women while Jamie Sommer holds the recorder. Two women and a child watch (foreground).
  Date: 2019