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Redfield, Robert

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Redfield, Robert (1897–1958)

US cultural anthropologist. His field research in Mexico and Central America made him a leading authority on peasant societies. His major works include The Primitive World and Its Transformation 1953, The Little Community 1955, and Peasant Society and Culture 1955.

Born in Chicago, the son of a corporation lawyer, he studied at the University of Chicago, served as an ambulance driver in France during World War I, and returned to study biology at Harvard and law at Chicago. His father-in-law, sociologist Robert Ezra Park, encouraged him in his desire to give up the law for anthropology. He took a PhD at Chicago in 1928 and spent his entire career there.



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