Prior to the 1930s the highlands of Guatemala were largely undescribed, except in travelogues. Just two decades later, the highlands had become one of the most anthropologically well-investigated areas of the world. This is largely due to the research that Robert Redfield and Sol Tax carried out between 1934 and 1941. Separately and together, Redfield and Tax anticipated and guided anthropological investigations of people living in peasant and urban communities in other areas of the world. Their work helped to define the major outlines of research in the 1970s, and since then much writing…mehr
Prior to the 1930s the highlands of Guatemala were largely undescribed, except in travelogues. Just two decades later, the highlands had become one of the most anthropologically well-investigated areas of the world. This is largely due to the research that Robert Redfield and Sol Tax carried out between 1934 and 1941. Separately and together, Redfield and Tax anticipated and guided anthropological investigations of people living in peasant and urban communities in other areas of the world. Their work helped to define the major outlines of research in the 1970s, and since then much writing about the region has been formulated in critical response to the Redfield- Tax program.
Introduction to the Transaction Edition Robert A. Rubinstein List of Illustrations and Photographs Foreword Preface Introduction Chapter One I followed your advice and didn't get us killed October 1934-May 1935 Chapter Two You have beaten me . . . in the argument of extensive vs. intensive studies November 1935-June 1936 Chapter Three If you want to write a book about a place don't stay longer than three weeks January 1937-June 1937 Chapter Four For all my failure I am getting some good insights into how things work December 1937-March 1938 Chapter Five Do you suppose that I shall be a padrino at 4 or 5 A.M. some morning or what? October 1938-April 1939 Chapter Six I take it that neither of us can prove what we feel probably to have been true October 1940-May 1941 Related Bibliography of Robert Redfield and Sol Tax Non-English Terms Used in the Correspondence About the Book and Editor Index
Introduction to the Transaction Edition Robert A. Rubinstein List of Illustrations and Photographs Foreword Preface Introduction Chapter One I followed your advice and didn't get us killed October 1934-May 1935 Chapter Two You have beaten me . . . in the argument of extensive vs. intensive studies November 1935-June 1936 Chapter Three If you want to write a book about a place don't stay longer than three weeks January 1937-June 1937 Chapter Four For all my failure I am getting some good insights into how things work December 1937-March 1938 Chapter Five Do you suppose that I shall be a padrino at 4 or 5 A.M. some morning or what? October 1938-April 1939 Chapter Six I take it that neither of us can prove what we feel probably to have been true October 1940-May 1941 Related Bibliography of Robert Redfield and Sol Tax Non-English Terms Used in the Correspondence About the Book and Editor Index
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