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  1. 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.

  2. Apr 3, 2024 · Robert Redfield 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 Redfield from law.

    • 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.

  5. Influenced by the work of Milton Singer, Redfield began to synthesize anthropological studies into an historical study of civilization. The program resulting from his work encouraged the inclusion of non-Western civilizations as part of the University's course offerings in the College.

  6. 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.

  7. By 1932, Redfield was an established professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago. In that year, he was invited to join the Carnegie Institution project at Chichen Itza in Yucatan.

  8. However, in the 1950s anthropologist Robert Redfield and his Comparative Civilizations project at the University of Chicago produced an alternative vision of modernization—one that emphasized intellectual conversation across borders, the interrelation of theory and fieldwork, and dialectical relations of tradition and modernity.

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