Ralph L Beals
Biographic Data
| ID | 81708 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ralph L Beals |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ralph L |
| FAMILY NAME | Beals |
| SIGNATURE | BEALS R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 106 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 255 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 106 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1930 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
A New Ecological Typology of the California Indians
Research in Foreign Areas
Politics of Social Research
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 6
Themes of indigenous Acculturation In Northwest Mexico. THOMAS B. Hinton and PHIL C. Weigand
Fifty Years in Anthropology
The title of this essay seemed appropriate when it was first suggested in 1980. The year was the fiftieth anniversary both of receipt of my doctorate and my first field trip to Mexico, the scene of much of my career. Upon further reflection, I am less satisfied with the title. More than 50 years have elapsed since those events; besides, my contact with anthropology actually began in 1922, 60 years before the date of this publication. Increasingly…
General and Theoretical
Demandas y conflicto
Demandas y conflicto
Rarámuri
More on Culture
Sonoran Fantasy or Coming of Age
Harry Hoijer 1904-1976
Anthropology in Contemporary Mexico
On 'Two Ethnographic Functions of Bird-Form Pottery in Oaxaca
In the October 1974, issue of American Antiquity (39:616-17) Dudley M. Varner contributes a note on 'Two Ethnographic Functions of Bird-Form Pottery from Oaxaca, Mexico.' He notes, without citing evidence, the archaeological occurrence of similar forms from the southern half of North America. The example illustrated was purchased in Yalalag, Oaxaca, and he cites two Zapotec informants from the same village about the functions of this form among t…
The Panajachel Symposium [and Comments and Replies]
This is the report of a "Schriftfest" for Sol Tax. More than 20 former students and colleagues met in Panajachel, Guatemala, to discuss his contributions to their own growth and to that of the discipline. The papers presented focused on studies of North American Indians, Middle American Indians, and "Middle America." Discussion centered on Tax's distinction between the bow and the hoe, i.e., the differences between North American tribal peoples a…
Mexico’s Persistent Indians
Essay| May 01 1974 Mexico’s Persistent Indians Ralph L. Beals Ralph L. Beals Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of California at Los Angeles Ralph L. Beals is an anthropologist who has traveled extensively in Mexico. His major publications are monographs based on extended field residence among the Yaqui-Mayo of Sonora, the Tarascans of Michoacan, and the Mixe and Zapotec of Oaxaca. A major work, The Peasant Marketing System of Oaxaca,…
Criteria for Scientific Development
An Introduction to Anthropology
Politics of Social Research
A New Ecological Typology of the California Indians
Methodology
Traffic in Antiquities
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General and Ethnology
Politics of Social Research
Life in a Mexican Village
An Introduction to Anthropology
The Sacred Clowns of the Pueblo and Mayo-yaqui Indians
Urbanism, Urbanization and Acculturation
The Chorti Indians of Guatemala
Politics of Social Research
Archaeological studies in Northeast Arizona
Fifty Years in Anthropology
The title of this essay seemed appropriate when it was first suggested in 1980. The year was the fiftieth anniversary both of receipt of my doctorate and my first field trip to Mexico, the scene of much of my career. Upon further reflection, I am less satisfied with the title. More than 50 years have elapsed since those events; besides, my contact with anthropology actually began in 1922, 60 years before the date of this publication. Increasingly…
Gifting, Reciprocity, Savings, and Credit in Peasant Oaxaca
The traditional peasant economy of Oaxaca, Mexico, recognizes gifting and reciprocity as well as systems of savings and credit. Both spontaneous and ritual gifting use economic goods to create or maintain social ends. In this case reciprocity is informal but necessary to continue the social functions of gifting. Formal systems of reciprocity also exist; they are related to social ends but involve equal returns in kind. Formal reciprocity is also …
Changing Images of America
Social Stratification in Latin America
Mounting industrialization and the decline of feudal forms may bring the several social structures in the Latin-American nations nearer the model of industrial countries, but simple application of American or European concepts leads to false analyses and predictions
Anthropological Research Problems With Reference to the Contemporary Peoples of Mexico and Guatemala
An Introduction to Anthropology
Sonoran Fantasy or Coming of Age
Scandinavian Students on an American Campus
Aboriginal Survivals in Mayo Culture
An Introduction to Anthropology
The Mexican Student Views the United States
The Social Organization of the Western Apache
Unilateral Organizations in Mexico1
No Frontier to Learning
Games of the Mountain Tarascans1
Father Acosta on the First Peopling of the New World
In the April, 1956, issue of American Antiquity (Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 420–1) Ronald L. Ives discusses the possible beginnings of the theory of the Asiatic origins of the American Indian. In this connection he cites the recent translation of the Description of the Province of Sonora by Father Ignaz Pfefferkorn, S. J., published originally in German in 1794–95
More on Culture
Harry Hoijer 1904-1976
Darien in the Past. S. L inné
America
National Research Council Research Am Fund
Unilateral Organizations in Mexico1
Aboriginal Survivals in Mayo Culture
The Sacred Clowns of the Pueblo and Mayo-yaqui Indians
America
A Possible Culture Sequence at Mitla, Oaxaca
Two Mountain Zapotec Tales from Oaxaca, Mexico
North and South America
Further Notes on the Cultural Affiliations of Northern Mexican Nomads
Yale University Publications in Anthropology
Studies of the Yaqui Indians of Sonora, Mexico. W. C. H olden , C. C. S eltzer , R. A. S tudhalter , C. J. W agner, and W. G. M c M illan
Mexico and South America
The Head-Hunters of Western Amazonas. Rafael Karsten
The Clinical Aspects of Diffusion
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Remarks on the History of Pueblo Social Organization
North and South America
The Last of the Seris
The Tarasca Project
The Chorti Indians of Guatemala
Shoshonean Days
Book Review| September 01 1941 Review Shoshonean Days: Recollections of a Residence of Five Years among the Indians of Southern California, 1885-1889G. Hazen Shinn Ralph L. Beals Ralph L. Beals Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1941) 10 (3): 388. https://doi.org/10.2307/3633974 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon…
North America
North and South America
Mexico's School-Made Society George C. Booth
Book Review| September 01 1942 Review: Mexico's School-Made Society, by George C. Booth Mexico's School-Made SocietyGeorge C. Booth Ralph L. Beals Ralph L. Beals Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1942) 11 (3): 372–373. https://doi.org/10.2307/3633582 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tool…
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