1st Edition
Doing Fieldwork The Correspondence of Robert Redfield and Sol Tax
By Robert A. Rubinstein
Copyright 2001
386 Pages
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Routledge
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Prior to the 1930s the highlands of Guatemala were largely undescribed, except in travelogues. Just two decades later, the highlands had become one of the most anthropologically well-investigated areas of the world. This is largely due to the research that Robert Redfield and Sol Tax carried out between 1934 and 1941. Separately and together, Redfield and Tax anticipated and guided... Read more
Introduction to the Transaction Edition, Robert A. Rubinstein, List of Illustrations and Photographs, Foreword, Preface, Introduction, Chapter One I followed your advice and didn't get us killed October 1934-May 1935, Chapter Two You have beaten me . . . in the argument of extensive vs. intensive studies November 1935-June 1936, Chapter Three If you want to write a book about a place, don't stay longer than three weeks January 1937-June 1937, Chapter Four For all my failure, I am getting some good insights into how things work December 1937-March 1938, Chapter Five Do you suppose that I shall be a padrino at 4 or 5 A.M. some morning, or what? October 1938-April 1939, Chapter Six I take it that neither of us can prove what we feel probably to have been true October 1940-May 1941, Related Bibliography of Robert Redfield and Sol Tax, Non-English Terms Used in the Correspondence, About the Book and Editor, Index
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Robert A. Rubinstein
