biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1897–1958)
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| biography:
| Cultural anthropologist, born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He studied law at Chicago and Harvard universities, then a trip to Mexico inspired him to change to anthropology. He conducted field research in an Aztec community near Mexico City (1926), on which he based the acclaimed Tepoztlán, a Mexican Village (1930). From 1930 he was a research associate for the Carnegie Institute, Washington, DC, becoming professor of anthropology at Chicago (1934–58). A leading theorist in the study of peasant societies, he continued his field research in Central America, introducing the concept of the ‘folk–urban continuum’. |
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