Clifford Wilcox
Biographic Data
| ID | 4588065 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clifford Wilcox |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clifford |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilcox |
| SIGNATURE | WILCOX C |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 20 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1955 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
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
The Villager's View of Life
From his earliest work in Tepoztlán through his late-career work in India, Redfield focused primarily on the mental preoccupations of his subjects. His critics, especially Oscar Lewis and those he inspired, faulted Redfield’s privileging of the mental worlds of his subjects over their social concerns. Nevertheless, Redfield found the mentalist orientation a rich vein, and he mined it deeply. A central feature of his magnum opus, The Folk Culture …
Robert E. Park to Robert Redfield, 23 January 1932
Peasantry: Part Societies
Culture Changes in Yucatan
The Intermediate Community
Sociological Investigation in Yucatan
A Note on Method
Social Anthropology
Robert Redfield is remembered today primarily as an anthropologist, but during his lifetime Redfield's cross-disciplinary activity reflected a strong interest in infusing anthropological practice with sociological theory. Like a handful of other anthropologists, including A.R. Radcliffe-Brown and Bronislaw Malinowski, who shared his interests during the 1920s through 1930s, his works came to define a new subfield known as social anthropology.Redf…
The Cultural Role of Cities
Robert Redfield's influential essay, "The Cultural Role of Cities," explores the multifaceted impact of cities on cultural development and change. Originally published in 1947, this chapter posits a typology of cities based on their roles in fostering or hindering cultural innovation and transmission. Redfield distinguishes between orthogenetic and heterogenetic urban transformations, arguing that cities can either preserve and elaborate existing…
Later Histories of the Folk Society
This chapter, originally published in 1955, traces the evolving concept of the folk society as it adapted to the realities of modernization and globalization. Redfield revisits his earlier formulations, acknowledging the limitations of a strict dichotomy between folk and urban societies. He explores how elements of folk culture persist and transform within complex societies, influenced by factors like industrialization, communication technologies…
The Primitive World View: Robert Redfield
Originally published in 1953, this chapter, "The Primitive World View," by Robert Redfield, delves into the conceptualizations of the world held by people in what were then termed "primitive" or "folk" societies. Redfield contrasts this worldview with the modern, scientific perspective, highlighting key differences in how these societies understand time, space, nature, and the relationship between humans and the supernatural. He argues that the p…
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 …
World War I and the Attack on Professors of German at the University of Michigan
When United States soldiers began fighting World War I in Europe, Americans suddenly waged war among themselves at home. Overly zealous patriots demanded public displays of loyalty from all citizens. Any American who did not purchase sufficient numbers of liberty bonds or verbally support the Allies' cause was automatically suspected of disloyalty. And in the hysteria brought on by war, disloyalty became tantamount to treason. Few suffered more u…
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 …
World War I and the Attack on Professors of German at the University of Michigan
When United States soldiers began fighting World War I in Europe, Americans suddenly waged war among themselves at home. Overly zealous patriots demanded public displays of loyalty from all citizens. Any American who did not purchase sufficient numbers of liberty bonds or verbally support the Allies' cause was automatically suspected of disloyalty. And in the hysteria brought on by war, disloyalty became tantamount to treason. Few suffered more u…
The Primitive World View: Robert Redfield
Originally published in 1953, this chapter, "The Primitive World View," by Robert Redfield, delves into the conceptualizations of the world held by people in what were then termed "primitive" or "folk" societies. Redfield contrasts this worldview with the modern, scientific perspective, highlighting key differences in how these societies understand time, space, nature, and the relationship between humans and the supernatural. He argues that the p…
The Cultural Role of Cities
Robert Redfield's influential essay, "The Cultural Role of Cities," explores the multifaceted impact of cities on cultural development and change. Originally published in 1947, this chapter posits a typology of cities based on their roles in fostering or hindering cultural innovation and transmission. Redfield distinguishes between orthogenetic and heterogenetic urban transformations, arguing that cities can either preserve and elaborate existing…
World War I and the Attack on Professors of German at the University of Michigan
When United States soldiers began fighting World War I in Europe, Americans suddenly waged war among themselves at home. Overly zealous patriots demanded public displays of loyalty from all citizens. Any American who did not purchase sufficient numbers of liberty bonds or verbally support the Allies' cause was automatically suspected of disloyalty. And in the hysteria brought on by war, disloyalty became tantamount to treason. Few suffered more u…
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
The Villager's View of Life
From his earliest work in Tepoztlán through his late-career work in India, Redfield focused primarily on the mental preoccupations of his subjects. His critics, especially Oscar Lewis and those he inspired, faulted Redfield’s privileging of the mental worlds of his subjects over their social concerns. Nevertheless, Redfield found the mentalist orientation a rich vein, and he mined it deeply. A central feature of his magnum opus, The Folk Culture …
Robert E. Park to Robert Redfield, 23 January 1932
Peasantry: Part Societies
Culture Changes in Yucatan
The Intermediate Community
Sociological Investigation in Yucatan
A Note on Method
Social Anthropology
Robert Redfield is remembered today primarily as an anthropologist, but during his lifetime Redfield's cross-disciplinary activity reflected a strong interest in infusing anthropological practice with sociological theory. Like a handful of other anthropologists, including A.R. Radcliffe-Brown and Bronislaw Malinowski, who shared his interests during the 1920s through 1930s, his works came to define a new subfield known as social anthropology.Redf…
The Cultural Role of Cities
Robert Redfield's influential essay, "The Cultural Role of Cities," explores the multifaceted impact of cities on cultural development and change. Originally published in 1947, this chapter posits a typology of cities based on their roles in fostering or hindering cultural innovation and transmission. Redfield distinguishes between orthogenetic and heterogenetic urban transformations, arguing that cities can either preserve and elaborate existing…
Later Histories of the Folk Society
This chapter, originally published in 1955, traces the evolving concept of the folk society as it adapted to the realities of modernization and globalization. Redfield revisits his earlier formulations, acknowledging the limitations of a strict dichotomy between folk and urban societies. He explores how elements of folk culture persist and transform within complex societies, influenced by factors like industrialization, communication technologies…
The Primitive World View: Robert Redfield
Originally published in 1953, this chapter, "The Primitive World View," by Robert Redfield, delves into the conceptualizations of the world held by people in what were then termed "primitive" or "folk" societies. Redfield contrasts this worldview with the modern, scientific perspective, highlighting key differences in how these societies understand time, space, nature, and the relationship between humans and the supernatural. He argues that the p…
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 …
Geography (8 works) · History (8 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (5 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond (2 works) · History (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Political science (2 works)