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The folk culture of the Yucatan by Robert Redfield. -- is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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. A visit to Mexico in 1923 drew Redfield from law to the study of anthropology, and in 1926 he returned to Mexico for fieldwork. He joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1927, receiving his Ph.D. in 1928. Results of his field endeavours appeared in Tepoztln, a Mexican Village (1930), which gained prompt recognition as an innovative work. In 1930 he became a research associate of the Carnegie Institution, Washington, D.C., for which he conducted field study over the next 16 years in the Yucatn and Guatemala. In 1934 he was appointed professor of anthropology and dean of social sciences at Chicago. With Alfonso Villa Rojas, who became one of Mexicos foremost anthropologists, he wrote Chan A Maya Village (1934), which contained observations of contemporary Maya culture and considered a new question for anthropology in the 1930s, acculturation. A comparison of a tribal community, a peasant village, a provincial town, and Mrida, the Yucatn capital, formed the basis of The Folk Culture of the Yucatn (1941). This work elaborated a hypothetical continuum indicating how the growth of a small, isolated community into a large, heterogeneous society involves progressive degrees o
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- Author
- Robert Redfield. --
- Publisher
- Chicago, Ill.: The University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1941
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226706597
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.17 / 5 (6 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14