Biographies of a Sociological Type: "Marginal Men" in the Establishment of "Middle American" Anthropology.
This article considers the fieldwork that Redfield, Andrade, and Tax carried out in Mexico and Guatemala with locally recruited key informants and field assistants beginning in the 1930s under the joint auspices of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the University of Chicago. The "marginal m...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Latin American & Caribbean Anthropology Vol. 24; no. 4; pp. 823 - 843 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2019
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