R Redfield
Biographic Data
| ID | 10690 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Redfield |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Redfield |
| SIGNATURE | REDFIELD R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3371-6908 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 121 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1322 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 121 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1925 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Covid-19 — Navigating the Uncharted
Covid-19 — Navigating the Uncharted Fauci, Lane, and Redfield comment on the early clinical features and epidemiology of cases reported in Wuhan, China, along with current mortality data, noting th...
Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for the United States
Introduction to St. Denis: A French Canadian Parish
Over the course of his career, Redfield progressively refined his vocabulary for discussing intermediate peoples who lay between tribal villagers and civilized urbanites. Although starting in 1930 with Tepoztlán he had used the term “folk” to refer to such intermediate peoples, he had at times not clearly distinguished in his writings the definition of peasants from folk or tribal peoples. But in his 1939 introduction to his student Horace Miner’…
The Folk Society
Although Redfield offered an initial description and definition of “folk society” in his 1940 article “The Folk Society and Culture,” he continued to refine his conception of folk society following publication of this essay. In 1942, he presented an expanded conception in the lecture “The Folk Society” delivered to students in the College at the University of Chicago. This essay was translated into Spanish and published in the Revista Mexicana de…
Anthropology, A Natural Science
Redfield published “Anthropology, A Natural Science?” while still in graduate school. Largely influenced by his father-in-law Robert E. Park, Redfield expressed here conceptions of both anthropology and sociology that would inform his work over the course of most of his career. Redfield argued that while during the 19th century anthropology had proceeded according to the methods of natural science, the discipline had shifted toward a historical a…
Among the Middle Americans
The Folk Culture and Civilization
The Folk Society and Culture
The Mexican Folk
In revising his dissertation for publication, Redfield devoted special attention to the introduction. Specifically, he removed the sharp critique of Franz Boas and his influence within American anthropology and indeed only briefly addressed concerns so forcefully stated previously regarding the antiquarian nature of most American anthropology during the first twenty-five years of the twentieth century. Rather, he focused his introduction on defin…
Civilizations as Cultural Structures
Peasantry: Part Societies
Culture Changes in Yucatan
The Intermediate Community
A Note on Method
The Social Organization of Tradition
Out of that anthropology which rested on studies of isolated primitive or tribal peoples arose the concept, "a culture." The Andamanese had a culture, the Trobrianders, the Aranda of Australia, and the Zuni. Each culture came to be conceived as an independent and self-sufficient system. Recently words have been found to make clear this conception of an "autonomous cultural system." It is "one which is self-sustaining-that is, it does not need to …
Fieldwork: The Correspondence of Robert Redfield & Sol Tax
Between 1934 and 1941, Robert Redfield and Sol Tax developed lines of research that anticipated and guided anthropological investigations of people living in peasant and urban communities. In their work on the urban/rural continuum, ethnic relations, the regional analysis of indigenous economic systems, world view and social change, Redfield and Tax supplied many of the empirical themes and theoretical directions that ethnographers subsequently e…
Chan Kom: A Maya Village
Originally published in 1940 by the Carnegie Institution of Washington as Publication 528, "Chan Kom, A Maya Village" represents a landmark study in ethnography. This reissue in the Western Folklore journal offers readers access to a detailed account of life in a Yucatecan Maya village during a period of significant social and economic transition. The study, conducted by Robert Redfield and Alfonso Villa Rojas with contributions from Clark S. Kno…
Human Nature and the Study of Society: The Papers of Robert Redfield. Vol. 1
A Village That Chooses Progress: Chan Kom Revisited
Anthropological Understanding of Man
ing of man, but of different kinds, is reached by those anthropologists who study man's biological nature; and those who address themselves to the study of language, tool-making or foodproduction and economics learn something of man in the aspect of his nature that appears in the activity chosen for particular attention. But here I try to say something about the nature of man as it appears to those of us who look upon the total, traditionally org…
Values in Action: A Comment
These papers express a recent development in anthropology: attempts to reconcile or combine the scientific and the humane aspects of the anthropologist's nature into a single operation contributing to both scientific knowledge and human welfare. The two roots of which Lisa Peattie spoke—the concern for the native peoples the anthropologist so specially knows about; and the movement toward a science of social change with predictive precision—grow …
General and Theoretical: An Introduction to Social Anthropology. D. N. Majumdar and T. N. Madan
Peasant Society and Culture: An Appraisal of Robert Redfield's Theories
This article reviews Robert Redfield's "Peasant Society and Culture: An Anthropological Approach to Civilization." Sister Providencia focuses on the first two chapters, highlighting Redfield's concept of the peasant society as a type of folk society distinct from both primitive and urban societies. She emphasizes Redfield's use of historical data and his focus on the 'great tradition' and 'little tradition' as interacting forces shaping peasant c…
The Little Community. Viewpoints for the Study of a Human Whole
The Little Community
Memorandum for the Study of Acculturation
The Folk Culture of Yucatan
This article examines the folk culture of Yucatan, Mexico, focusing on the interplay between indigenous Maya traditions and Spanish colonial influences. Redfield argues that Yucatecan folk culture represents a blend of these two distinct cultural streams, resulting in a unique cultural configuration. He explores various aspects of Yucatecan life, including social organization, religion, language, and material culture, to illustrate the persistenc…
The Folk Society
Understanding of society may be gained through construction of an ideal type of primitive or folk society as contrasted with modern urbanized society. Such a society is small, isolated, nonliterate, and homogeneous, with a strong sense of group solidarity. The ways of living are conventionalized into that coherent system which we call "a culture." Behavior is traditional, spontaneous, uncritical, and personal; there is no legislation or habit of …
The Primitive World and Its Transformations
This article reviews Robert Redfield's book "The Primitive World and Its Transformations," focusing on its exploration of the impact of civilization on folk societies. Redfield argues that as primitive societies are increasingly exposed to and integrated with civilizations, they undergo transformations in their social organization, worldview, and values. He identifies several key changes, including the shift from a sacred to a secular outlook, th…
A Memorandum for the Study of Acculturation
This memorandum outlines a framework for the systematic study of acculturation, defined as the processes of cultural change that occur when two or more groups come into continuous firsthand contact. It proposes a set of categories for analysis, including the acceptance, adaptation, and reaction of both the 'donor' and 'recipient' cultures. The authors emphasize the importance of considering factors such as the duration and intensity of contact, t…
Contributions to American Anthropology and History
The Social Organization of Tradition
Out of that anthropology which rested on studies of isolated primitive or tribal peoples arose the concept, "a culture." The Andamanese had a culture, the Trobrianders, the Aranda of Australia, and the Zuni. Each culture came to be conceived as an independent and self-sufficient system. Recently words have been found to make clear this conception of an "autonomous cultural system." It is "one which is self-sustaining-that is, it does not need to …
The Little Community
Tepoztlan, A Mexican Village: A Study of Folk Life
This article presents an ethnographic study of Tepoztlán, a Mexican village located south of Mexico City. Focusing on various aspects of the village's folk life, the authors examine the economic activities, social organization, religious practices, and material culture of the community. The study provides detailed descriptions of agricultural practices, local industries, family structures, kinship systems, religious festivals, and traditional bel…
The Calpolli-barrio in a Present-day Mexican Pueblo
THE social organization of the Aztec has been considered by Morgan1 and again by Bandelier,2 whose work has been reconsidered and appraised by Waterman.3 It is agreed that the fundamental social unit was the calpolli. The sixteenth century writers, in this respect perhaps more than in others, are not always clear or consistent, and the precise nature of the calpolli is not in all respects certain. The part played by kinship in fixing the unit is …
Anthropological Research Problems With Reference to the Contemporary Peoples of Mexico and Guatemala
Maine's Ancient Law in the Light of Primitive Societies
MODERN student of primitive law has written that Henry Maine's Ancient Law still remains after eight decades the preeminent work on the origin and nature of primitive legal 1 Without stopping to do more than wonder why anthropologists who have been studying primitive peoples failed in eighty years to produce a better work on the subject, one may review Maine's book in the terms in which it is praised by Hoebel: as the pre-eminent work on the orig…
Sociology and Common Sense: Discussion
Values in Action: A Comment
These papers express a recent development in anthropology: attempts to reconcile or combine the scientific and the humane aspects of the anthropologist's nature into a single operation contributing to both scientific knowledge and human welfare. The two roots of which Lisa Peattie spoke—the concern for the native peoples the anthropologist so specially knows about; and the movement toward a science of social change with predictive precision—grow …
Societies and Cultures as Natural Systems
The Folk Society and Culture
Differences in concept, problem, and field procedure between anthropology and sociology are in part functions of differences in their usual subject matters: the primitive societies as contrasted with the urbanized societies. Awareness of this fact has been developed by studies made of peasant societies and of primitive peoples changing under urban influence. There results a conception of an ideal primitive or folk society. The urbanized, peasant,…
Culture and Education in the Midwestern Highlands of Guatemala
Education is here indentified with "the Process of cultural transmission and renewal." Rural Ladinos of midwestern Guatemala are, with respect to education, intermediate between tribal and urban society. Schools exist, but they have little importance. On the other hand, ceremony and myth do not play a large par in the transfer of tradition. The attention of the investigator is therefore drawn to the more elementary and universal aspects of educat…
Culture Contact without Conflict
Anthropological Understanding of Man
ing of man, but of different kinds, is reached by those anthropologists who study man's biological nature; and those who address themselves to the study of language, tool-making or foodproduction and economics learn something of man in the aspect of his nature that appears in the activity chosen for particular attention. But here I try to say something about the nature of man as it appears to those of us who look upon the total, traditionally org…
The Antecedents of Mexican Immigration to the United States
The paper embodies some of the results obtained by Dr. Manuel Gamio in his study of Mexican immigration to the United States. In that study emphasis is laid on the immigrant and on Mexico rather than on the effect of Mexican immigration upon the economic and social organization of the United States. Its is an episode in Mexican history which is studied from the Mexican viewpoint. It deals with the number of Mexicans in the United States and shows…
Robert Niel Pehrson 1926-1955
The Material Culture of Spanish-indian Mexico
Viking Fund Medalists 1954
Essays in Anthropology in Honor of Alfred Louis Kroeber
The Conquest of Yucatan
The Religion of the Crow Indians. Robert H. Lowie
Racial Realities in Europe. Lothrop Stoddard
Everywhere. A. Henry Savage-Landor
The Mythology of All Races. Vol. VII. Armenian. Mardiros H. Ananikian The Mythology of All Races. Vol. VII. African. Alice Werner
Anthropology, a Natural Science
The Pedigree of the Human Race.Harris Hawthorne Wilder
Social Origins and Social Continuities.Alfred Marston Tozzer
Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico: The Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-47. Susan Shelby Magoffin , Stella M. Drumm
Ancient Cities and Modern Tribes: Exploration and Adventure in Maya Lands.Thomas Gann
The Building of Cultures. Roland B. Dixon
The Calpolli-barrio in a Present-day Mexican Pueblo
THE social organization of the Aztec has been considered by Morgan1 and again by Bandelier,2 whose work has been reconsidered and appraised by Waterman.3 It is agreed that the fundamental social unit was the calpolli. The sixteenth century writers, in this respect perhaps more than in others, are not always clear or consistent, and the precise nature of the calpolli is not in all respects certain. The part played by kinship in fixing the unit is …
The Story of the American Indian.Paul Radin
Maya Cities.Thomas Gann
Apes and Men.Harold Peake , Herbert John Fleure
Primitive Man as Philosopher.Paul Radin
The Golden Stool. Some Aspects of the Conflict of Cultures in Modern Africa. Edwin W. Smith
The Magic Island. W. B. Seabrook , Alexander King An Account of the "Witch" Murder Trial, York, Pennsylvania, January 7-9, 1929. A. Monroe Aurand, Jr. , John Blymyer
The Mexican Side of the Texan Revolution. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, D. Ramon Martinez Caro, Maria Tomal , Carlos E. Castaneda
Liberia--Old and New. A Study of Its Social and Economic Background, with Possibilities of Development. James L. Sibley , D. Westermann
The Racial Elements of European History. Hans F. K. Gunther, G. C. Wheeler
Coming of Age in Samoa. A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization. Margaret Mead
The Material Culture of Spanish-indian Mexico
The Antecedents of Mexican Immigration to the United States
The paper embodies some of the results obtained by Dr. Manuel Gamio in his study of Mexican immigration to the United States. In that study emphasis is laid on the immigrant and on Mexico rather than on the effect of Mexican immigration upon the economic and social organization of the United States. Its is an episode in Mexican history which is studied from the Mexican viewpoint. It deals with the number of Mexicans in the United States and shows…
The Roman Catholic Church as a Factor in the Political and Social History of Mexico.Ernest Galarza
Readings in Sociology. W ilson D. W allis and M alcolm M. W illey
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