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  1. Robert Redfield. Robert Redfield (December 4, 1897 – October 16, 1958) was an American anthropologist and ethnolinguist, whose ethnographic work in Tepoztlán, Mexico, is considered a landmark of Latin American ethnography. [1] He was associated with the University of Chicago for his entire career: all of his higher education took place there ...

  2. Apr 3, 2024 · Robert Redfield (born Dec. 4, 1897, Chicago—died Oct. 16, 1958, Chicago) was a U.S. cultural anthropologist who was the pioneer and, for a number of years, the principal ethnologist to focus on those processes of cultural and social change characterizing the relationship between folk and urban societies. A visit to Mexico in 1923 drew ...

    • Robert Redfield, Alfonso Villa Rojas
    • 1934
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  4. May 23, 2018 · The American anthropologist Robert Redfield (1897-1958) specialized in Meso-American folk cultures. He was concerned with socially relevant applications of social-science skills and researches. Robert Redfield was born on Dec. 4, 1897, in Chicago, Ill., the son of an attorney. In 1915 he entered the University of Chicago to study law.

  5. In 1948, Redfield returned to Chan Kom and in 1950 published A Village that Chose Progress. In addition to his research and teaching duties, Redfield served as Dean of the Social Sciences from 1934 to 1946. A close friend of Robert M. Hutchins, Redfield also organized the Atomic Energy Control Conference in September 1945.

  6. Years of service. 1977–1996. Rank. Colonel. Unit. Medical Corps. Robert Ray Redfield Jr. (born July 10, 1951) is an American virologist who served as the Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry from 2018 to 2021.

  7. Dec 4, 2017 · On December 4, 1897, American anthropologist and ethnolinguist Robert Redfield was born. Redfield ‘s ethnographic work in Tepoztlán, Mexico is considered a landmark Latin American ethnography. From his studies of Mexican communities, Redfield developed a theory ( 1956) of a folk-urban continuum, to account for the differences between folk ...

  8. Professor, anthropologist. The Redfield Papers span the years of Robert Redfield's association with the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, from the mid-1920s when he began graduate work in anthropology to the end of his professional career in 1958.

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