An anthropologist's life in the twentieth century : 2000.

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Title:
An anthropologist's life in the twentieth century :
Dates:
2000.
Creators:
Foster, George M. (George McClelland), 1913-2006, interviewee. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtmyqQ3Whgb6wQxWcrcyd http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79081539, Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80120918, and Riess, Suzanne B., interviewer.
Abstract:
Family and background, Ottumwa, Iowa; anthropology at Northwestern, Melville Herskovits; Ph. D. at UC Berkeley, Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie; first travel to Mexico; marriage to Mary LeCron, 1938, and trip to Austria; research with Sierra Popoluca, 1940-1941; teaching at Syracuse and UCLA; colleagues and work at Smithsonian Institution, Washington and Mexico: Institute of Inter-American Affairs, Institute of Social Anthropology, 1943-1953, start of long-term field research in Tzintzuntzan, sabbatical in Spain; UC Berkeley Department of Anthropology since 1953: planning Kroeber Hall, course work, administration, expanding faculty, Ph. D. curricula, funding students; American Anthropological Association presidency; sixties, seventies issues of free speech, ethics, Vietnam war; evolution of medical anthropology; community development advisory role for World Health Organizaion, Agency for International Development; discusses field work, writing, students, personal change, beliefs, family, friendships, and some current issues in anthropology.
Extent:
1 volumes (xii, 413 pages) : and 20 audiocassettes
Language:
English

Background

Physical description:

Transcript: 1 volumes (xii, 413 pages) : color portraits ; 29 cm

audio tapes: 20 audiocassettes

Physical facet:
color portraits ;
Dimensions:
29 cm
Note:
Volume includes index.

Access and use

Terms of access:
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Location of this collection:
University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US
Contact:
510-642-6481
bancref-library@berkeley.edu
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