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An anthropologist's life in the twentieth century : oral history transcript : theory and practice at UC Berkeley, the Smithsonian,
in Mexico, and with the World Health Organization / 2000.
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An anthropologist's life in the twentieth century : oral history transcript: theory and practice at UC Berkeley, the Smithsonian, in Mexico, and with the World Health Organization / 2000University of California source of community leaders oral history series
Creator/Contributor:
Foster, George M. (George McClelland), 1913-2006, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Riess, Suzanne B., interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.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.
Date:
2000 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caAnthropologists -- California -- Interviews
Anthropology -- Study and teaching
Anthropologues -- Californie -- Entretiens
Anthropologie -- Étude et enseignement
Universities and colleges -- Faculty
Education -- Curricula
Anthropology -- Study and teaching
Anthropologists
California
University of California, Berkeley. -- Department of Anthropology -- History
University of California, Berkeley. -- Department of Anthropology -- Faculty
University of California, Berkeley. -- Department of Anthropology -- Curricula
Kroeber Hall (Berkeley, Calif.)
University of California, Berkeley. -- Department of Anthropology.
Note:
George M. Foster ; with an introduction by E.A. Hammel. Interviews conducted by Suzanne Riess in 1998 and 1999. Regional Oral
History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Forms part of the University of California source of community leaders series.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Audio tape recording of the interviews also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3175 C:1-20.
Also available online.
Volume includes index.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
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.
Type:
biographyInterviews.
History.
Oral histories.
Physical Description:
print
1 volumes (xii, 413 pages) : color portraits ; 29 cm
20 audiocassettes
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
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.