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Sir Robert Redfield (Born Dec. 4, 1897, Chicago Died Oct.

16, 1958, Chicago)


U.S. cultural anthropologist who was the pioneer and, for a number of years, the
principal ethnologist to focus on those processes of cultural and social change
characterizing the relationship between folk and urban societies.
Defines Culture as It is an organized body of conventional understandings manifest
in art and artifacts, which, persisting through tradition, characterizes a human
group.
Works Done:
1930 Tepoztln, a Mexican Village: A Study of Folk Life.
1934 A Maya Village
1941 The Folk Culture of Yucatan.
1953 The Primitive World and Its Transformations.
1955 The Little Community: Viewpoints for the Study of a Human Whole.
1956 Peasant Society and Culture: An Anthropological Approach to
Civilization.

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