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

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.

Subjects

Topics

FacultyHistoryCurriculaInterviewsAnthropologyAnthropologistsStudy and teaching

Places

People

George M. Foster (1913-2006)

Series Statement

  • Source of community leaders series

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