The Santa Fe style in American anthropology

Regional interest, academic initiative, and philanthropic policy in the first two decades of the Laboratory of Anthropology, Inc

Bibliographic Data

ID4004182
AuthorsGeorge W Stocking (University of Chicago, corresponding author)
Year1982
Volume18
Issue1
Pages3-19
Publication date1982-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-5061 • E-ISSN: 1520-6696
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/1520-6696(198201)18:1<3::aid-jhbs2300180102>3.0.co;2-7
OpenAlexW1966092440
LanguageEN
Citations received11

During the 1920s the American Southwest, an area rich in ethnographic and archelogical resources, became an important focus of interest on the part of both eastern academic anthropologists and the Rockefeller philanthropies. Successfully coopting or overriding previously established regional anthropological interests, nationally oriented anthropologists were instrumental in establishing a Laboratory of Anthropology modelled in part on the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts. When Rockefeller funding was terminated in the middle 1930s, the Laboratory was left to forage in the economic desert of the depression Southwest and was unable to find either adequate financial support or a clearly defined mission. In 1947, it was incorporated into the State Museum system, where it functions today as a coordinating center for archeological research in the Rio Grande Basin

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