An anthropologist's life in the twentieth century
theory and practice at UC Berkeley, the Smithsonian, in Mexico, and with the World Health Organization
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Publication
2000 - Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California
Language
English
Word Count
103,250 words, Guess
Page Count
413 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL60744704M
- OCLC Control Number48614498
Classifications
- LCCGN21.F67 A2 2000
Alternate Titles
- Anthropologist's life in the 20th century
Description
Family and background, Ottumwa, Iowa; anthropology at Northwestern, Melville Herskovits; Ph. D. at UC Berkeley, Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie; first travel to Mexico; marriage to Mary LeCron, 1938, and trip to Austria; research with Sierra Popoluca, 1940-1941; teaching at Syracuse and UCLA; colleagues and work at Smithsonian Institution, Washington and Mexico: Institute of Inter-American Affairs, Institute of Social Anthropology, 1943-1953, start of long-term field research in Tzintzuntzan, sabbatical in Spain; UC Berkeley Department of Anthropology since 1953: planning Kroeber Hall, course work, administration, expanding faculty, Ph. D. curricula, funding students; American Anthropological Association presidency; sixties, seventies issues of free speech, ethics, Vietnam war; evolution of medical anthropology; community development advisory role for World Health Organization, Agency for International Development; discusses field work, writing, students, personal change, beliefs, family, friendships, and some current issues in anthropology.
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- Source of community leaders series
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